[Avodah] Moda ani

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 06:45:29AM +0200, menucha wrote:
: I am wondering about the various women's nuschaot of moda vs. modeh 
: ani.  I was quite surprised to see that in the Artscroll women's siddur 
: it said Modeh. 

I'm not, since they're lower-case-c conservative.

Modeh Ani post-dates the rishonim. They said E-lokai Netzor when waking
up (usually after Asher Yatzar), and many explain it not beginning
with "Barukh" by holding that it's semuchah lechaverta with Hamapil.
When we moved E-lokai Netzor to later in the day, we came up with some
other way of thanking G-d upon waking up. IOW, Modeh Ani replaces saying
the second half of that berakhah first thing upon waking.

It is hard to call a tefillah written 400 years ago or so a matbei'ah
so fixed that women should violate grammar to preserve it. (Regardless
of whether she later says "shelo asani shifchah", as "shelo asani eved"
dates back to the tannaim.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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