#631: Modim Derabanan (Part 1)

Citizen is responsible by the Saka family and bye for and we are up to durabon is the response the modem that we recite when the in the repetition arrives at Modim and the bows we bow with him. We'll discuss in the coming evenings how to bow the beginning the whole time the end different practices and where they come from. But while the kazin recites his modem which he should say out loud we'll talk about too. We also recite our modem and that modem is called modm durabon. The question is why is it called modm duraban? The easy answer is the author of that modem are the raban the rabbis of the talmud which begs the question so is the rest of the amida. The whole amida is the authorship of the raon. So why don't we call the durabon the wrote the entire not just this paragraph that we say why is it called modan and the answer is simple the bio brings points us to the which is the origin the source of the ra that we recite actually quotes a debate what the text of that should be the debate that time that What should the seabboard be saying? So says and so on. After all these suggestions are made which may or should sound familiar to you concluded say it all we combine it and we say it all. So says the Bose that's why it's called because this modm is a conjunction is a is a compilation of all the suggestions that were offered woven and integrated into one. So that one integration is called modm durabon modm durabon. But that still begs the question every other the repeats he says it we listen carefully we answer the reason the says it is to be those who can't on their own that's why was instituted to represent those who were illiterate those who couldn't recite their own amida so if every other bra is good enough to listen and hear the kazin why this bra of modm do we have to in parallel simultaneously offer our own modem as well so this might be the most famous comment ever of the Avraham. Everyone knows this Abu Draam and the Avram has a beautiful insight, a beautiful insight. And I tell you Dar Mashel because it's a famous story of Rab Yoshv many years ago. He was unwell and there was a medical specialist who came all the way from America to help him and to heal him. And the medical specialist, this doctor didn't speak Hebrew. And after he intervened, he treated Raayash. Raayash asked his shamish, he said, "How do you properly say thank you in English? could you tell me the English words how I can communicate, how I could say thank you. So the Shamish told him the English words and Rayashv himself repeated those words in the language the doctor understood. So the Shamash asked Raayashv Zatal. Why didn't you just have me go say thank you? You don't speak English. He doesn't speak Hebrew. You could have just told me to go on your behalf and say thank you. So said when you say thank you, you can't do it through a it can't be done through an intermediate or an emissary. If you're really grateful, you have to communicate it yourself directly. And that's exactly what many years before the that's exactly what the writes. He says, "The servant doesn't turn to the master and say, I serve you, you're my master." And he sends a to go tell the master, "I surrender. I subject myself to you." What's most respectful and dignified, what's most genuine and earnest is to directly not through an intermediary say thank you. So says the Abu Draam every other of the Amida through an intermediary through an emissary you could go ask for healing, ask for knowledge, ask for parasa, ask for justice, ask for redemption. All the other themes of the amida we've been learning you can do through someone else. But when you want to say thank you, when you're grateful, you can't outsource gratitude. Gratitude cannot and must not be outsourced. If it's real, if it's genuine, if it's heartfelt, it has to be delivered directly. Yosh understood that maybe he did it based on likely this avu. The avu suggests that is the reason that other we don't have our own we don't have our own version. And yet this when the kazan says modm, we say modm together with him. Now when we say the modem together with him, who's listening to his? So there's a custom many have points out it's erroneous where they mumble it and say it quietly. Everybody's answering and he just says it to himself and ends it. It's incorrect. Why? Because the whole was instituted for those who are not those who are not literate and for those those literally still today or those figuratively we the needs to repeat and recite the modem out loud. Okay. But those who are saying can they hear the saying the modem out loud? So we'll pick up tomorrow night. There are different minimum here. My rebi based on his rebi has that the says or stops holds it waits for everyone to recite the modem and then continues with modm so that theore can hear the whole and there is no static in the in the competition and tension between both being recited at once. He's not the only one who says this. There are other sources. We'll pick up with item tomorrow night.