#617: Amida: Modim (Part 13)

s family and by on the 18 the the opportunity every day three times a day to express our gratitude to never take anything for granted to press pause and reflect on what we have in our lives we mentioned that points out that the G of the word mod is 100 because just like 100 times we have Micro moments 100 times we have for connections with hem 100 times throughout our day we interrupt and we pause to say thank you so so to modim is another form of saying thank you the um Freeman points out that that means not that we could ever make up for a lost opportunity and we have a obligation May 100 every day but it means it's hard throughout the day you make a and you made a br the cup of coffee you had lunch one came out of the bathroom we say as part of our habit and it's hard sometimes to focus and pay attention but we can make up for it the three modim three times during the day we stop to think mod I'm so grateful to you I take nothing in my life for granted then we can make up and that the Bowing at modim is our response to the that we describe of theik the moment we invoke the image of an intense Divine Providence divine presence we can't help but surrender submit we can't help but bow in deference to Hashem so we last left off we were going through the words and M we describe hem both as a rock a main a rock is reliable dependable predictable a rock is fixed a rock is permanent a rock sticks out of the water if a person feels they're drowning there's so much going on so easy in today's world with everything that we have upon us to feel like we're drowning you grab onto the rock the ofu not the Theos but the ofu the rock and inside us that we know we have in US is and is a shield so he mentioned hem Shields Us in way we never know we don't even necessarily know the Miracles Hashem is doing for us he's the mug he saves and prevents and protects even before it happens and yesu and if there is a threat and there is a danger yesu then he is the Salvation then he brings us he gets us out of it which brings us to the words that is you that's what you do V from generation to generation so I mentioned a debate among the early commentaries on where do you press where do you put the comma where do you put the comma is it and next phrase will tell the story of your praise with gratitude or is it that you are and every generation will be grateful and tell the story of your praise so the says that you put the K after in other words I mentioned last night many of you many of us are only right now trying to figure out how we say it where we put the K again I don't know if you noticed since last night at Mar andak says put the K after he's our Rock our foundation he's our shield in generation explains that first we began we're so grateful to you our gratitude to you is not bound by time there is no beginning middle or end it's it is forever and ever and ever May forever even for the future Hashem you are we're grateful to you and then we refer toov in the present tense in this generation at this time interpersonally intergenerationally we have this gratitude to you the yakar has a different understanding he says read it that you're our Rock Hashem you are our Shield Comm stop now and his his proof his evidence is each of the other times that we invoke that phrase the other times we use the words Lor Vador it doesn't follow but it in produces doesn't come after but it proceedes for example we say Hala in every generation we have to praise you so therefore others see it not as L Vador is the end of a sentence but L Vador is the beginning of the sentence Vador in every generation we are grateful to you the re freedlander is a very beautiful thought why would we need to invoke that image that phrase Lor from generation to generation we are grateful and we praise you so says what we're saying to hasem is every generation has its own gratitude it needs to be grateful for every generation has threats or dangers or Miracles that we should be appreciative for so in every generation there is no generation that can say not us we're exempt we're exception in every generation some generations have lived through and overcome extraordinary things it's hard to sometimes find the Gratitude but even those Generations Lor VOR it's a beautiful thought that part of the obligation of a generation is to say what's my gratitude what is our generation's gratitude what is specific and unique to us what do we face what do we confront what do we overcome what should we not take for granted what are the Miracles in our times that are our story Lor Vador different than the last generation different than the Next Generation in every generation Hashem will be grateful to you and we figure out Lor VOR what is our generation's uniqueness our gifts that thing that we should be grateful for