[Avodah] Moda ani

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

SBA wrote:
> Has anyone ever seen a siddur (or indeed any reference to)
> pre-WW2 which mentions "modah"?

Good point, but beware: If one goes back *too* far, he'll be in an era of siddurim which had no printed vowels.

I think this topic is a great example of "lo ra'inu aino raaya" (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence). If we can't find any siddurim which include "modah", one could easily argue that this says nothing about how the women davened, but that it shows *who* used the siddurim. In other words, one could argue that women have been saying "modah" for ages, but that it was passed on orally; if women were less literate than men, why bother printing it in the siddur?

Akiva Miller


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