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How important is it for one to thank the Kohanim after they perform Nesias Kapayim, as well as the Makri and Shliach Tzibur for Davening?
Doing so is a very old tradition, and is viewed as a completion of the service of the Kohen and Baal Tefila and helps to receive the Bracha from the Kohen.
Piskeiy teshuvos 128:48; Likkutei dibburim vol. 3 likkut 23:72 p. 624
From where does the Chabad melody that is customarily sung by the priestly blessing, come from?
It originated from the choir of the Mittler Rebbe. Interestingly, the Rebbe Rayatz testifies that he heard it for the first time while he was in the city of Riga, in the 1930s. From here we can understand that it was not traditionally sung in Lubavitch, and while perhaps it was composed by the choir or a member of the choir, it never became the official tradition until later.
Likkutei dibburim vol. 3 likkut 23:72 p. 624
May one answer all the Amens of the first Half Kaddish in Pesukei Dezimra?
The accepted and widespread custom recorded in Poskim is to answer all the Amens of the first Half of Kaddish in Pesukei Dezimra. However, some argue that according to Admur in his Shulchan Aruch, this is incorrect, and that rather one can only answer for the middle and last Amen of the Half Kaddish.
Shoel Vinishal 4:26; Ben Ish Chaiy Vayugash 10; Shemos 6; Kaf Hachaim 66:23; Devar Yehoshua 2:6; Yabia Omer 1:5; 6:4; Igros Moshe 4:14; Piskeiy teshuvos 51:14 footnote 113; See Sefer Hefsek Betefila p. 217-245
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