[Avodah] [Areivim] shelo osani ...

[Mike Miller]

On 5/27/07, Moshe Yehuda Gluck <mgluck at gmail.com> wrote:
> If one can change the Nusach Hatefillah to suit his/her state of being,
> shouldn't there be many, many changes to be made? Every Tefillah in Lashon
> Rabim will have to be changed to Lashon Yachid, when davening alone, and the
> opposite when davening with a Tzibbur. Every Lashon Zachor will have to be
> changed to Lashon Nekeivah for women. I don't have Mareh Mekomos, but I
> highly doubt that the Meyasdei Nusach Hatefillah had this in mind. Why
> should Modeh/Modah Ani be different (going with the assumption that the
> reader agrees with me)?

Most tefillos are already written in Lashon Rabim, and it could be
argued that this is the proper form, even if one must daven
b'yichudus. OTOH, the brachos in question (and modeh ani) are
singular; shelo asani, and not shelo asanu, and thus, perhaps, are
intended to be individualistic.

-- Mike Miller
Ramat Bet Shemesh