#634: Modim Derabanan (Part 4)

Citizen is sponsored by family inform. So does a person have to stand for mod? For those who have the minute to sit for a completely legitimate, must one stand for mod? If the answer is yes, one does stand for modan, how much of do you stand for? You see a lot of people do the old nod. They give a little bit of a I don't even know how to describe it. Two-inch lift off the seat and they're back to reclining, back to sitting comfortably. Does that count for standing if one needs to stand? So in the safer not published by his sonski he said that Raon has the status of Sashhat. It's not the silent amid. We finish that. We were y say that it has the status of just like the leads. When we say our own modem parallel to his, it is an extension of can't sit when he's repeating the doesn't sit for. So neither should the one who's saying and therefore it's not enough to just stand at the beginning of modm. But one should rise for the entire modem. Everybody even though all are answering it's everyone there everyone in the has the status of the at least for that paragraph of modm duraban what if you're not in the minion do you have to interrupt for modan let's say you're sitting and learning in that room in an adjacent room let's say you're not up to that part of the davening so do you interrupt in order to respond you would interrupt to respond to gaducha if you're in the room sitting and learning and the mean gets up Kadusha, you'd stand and you'd say kaduca with the if the minion gets up to bar, you'd stand and you'd recite. You'd answer with the so does kadesh duraban have the same status said yes. One would interrupt their learning. One would interrupt uh what they're up to in Davening. It's the appropriate space in order to respond to it would have that status as well. So with that, let's get into the text itself. those opening nine words are the same in we recognize with complete clarity that Hashem has divine providence specific providence prus and that is hashka transcends all generations hashem you're our god you're intimately involved in our lives nothing that happens to us is random chance or coincidence it's all carefully choreographed and curated from above and not only in our lives. That is true and goes back for the generations for those who came before as well. And then we deviate now takes on its own text. We just described Hashem as of our God and the God of those who came before. But then we broaden the circle and we say Kbasar. Aloh kbasar means you're the god of our forefathers, of our mothers and our fathers and our bubbies and our zades. But not only the God of the Jewish people. Eloqubasar, you are the source and you will all of existence. Kbasar all of humanity. All human beings. Everyone is nikra is the Jewish people. We have a special status. But really everyone is called Salem. Everyone is Salm. You are the elbasar. You are the God and you are the source and all defer and surrender and submit to you with gratitude. Not only specifically but then more generally and then we describe asu you are our you formed us not just butu you formed us you fashioned us you didn't just fashion us who we are our uniqueness our particularity our exceptionalism you fashioned us with a mission a purpose a mandate there's a reason we're Here y bracius you want you fashioned you created all of all of all of this world the whole universe the cosmos all of existence now what tense is the word yer okay let's process of elimination there's past present and future present correct yer is lashov it is the present tense if we're thanking God for having created the world that was 57 785 years ago. So why do we use the present tense? You create, you fashion, you form the world. Well, we already said it in our introduction. We described as in an ongoing way wills the world into existence. We only continue to exist because Hashem wills it. On Wednesday mornings, we're learning Tanya. We're far from up to this, but the Balatanya describes, we've shared this before. If I were to tell you to close your eyes and picture something, close your eyes and picture a red sports car. Does the red sports car exist? In your imagination, calls man that you imagine it. The red sports car exists in your imagination so long as you continue to imagine. If you open your eyes, you get distracted, you start listening again, you stop thinking about that image, does it continue to exist? Not even in your imagination because your relationship with it is over. Says similarly, but different of course wills our existence. He wills us to exist. The moment he would so to say take his attention away, the moment he would cease to will us to exist, we wouldn't exist. That's consistently, constantly, he has to continue to will our existence. He creates and recreates and renews creation. And if he stopped the relationship with creation that created if he didn't will our existence, we would no longer exist. So, Hashem is not just auasar. He's the God of all flesh, of all of humanity. And not only of all humanity, he's yenu. created, he formed us and ycatious everything, the mountains, the valleys, the hills, all of the globe, all the terrain, all of the heavens and all of the seas and the oceans is the source of it all. Not only the source of it, then he moved on to another project. He is the source with an ongoing relationship that if he ceased that relationship, we would cease to exist. Which is why it's in the present tense. And for all that our God, God of our fathers, for that we have endless and boundless gratitude. Why is it in the plural vod? What's the difference between vod? We'll continue with the mids of