[Avodah] Moda ani

[Micha Berger]

RnTK wrote:
: My own  feeling is that "Modeh ani" is a kind of fixed text that everyone says 
: just the  way it was fixed, like the pasuk, "Na'ar hayisi gam zakanti velo 
: ra'isi tzadik  ne'ezav" -- which I have no problem saying even thought I was 
: never a na'ar and  am not yet a zekeina.  

I earlier accidentally mentioned E-lokai Netzor... It's another techinah
in the first person, and it IS reconjugated from the pasuq. As you
know from Shabbos Morning, "LeDavid, Beshanoso es Ta'amo" has "Netzor
leshonkha meira, usefasekha medabeir mirma", in the 2nd person.

Fixed texts is more of an issue for tefillos than techinos, so I might
be able to argue that any prayer written in the first person singular
should not be considered so firmly etched in stone,

But my point was that Modeh Ani is no pasuq or maamar Chazal, and
even post-dates the rishonim. Any reluctance we might have for tampering
with pesuqim really shouldn't apply.

As for were the Gaon says that "Modah" is appropriate.... It's something
I've repeted bishmo now for years. I have to go back to re-find where I
got it from. I'm not ignoring you, just have patience!

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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