[Avodah] modim

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 05/24/2016 03:37 AM, Eli Turkel via Avodah wrote:
>
> What bothers me the most is the sense of priorities. Without putting
> down bending at modim I find it hard to imagine that it is worse than
> murder, chillul shabbat, gilui arayot etc. According to this zohar
> large percentages of the Jewish people will not be resurrected over a
> "minor" halacha.

I don't know how minor this is.  Think about it; we're not talking about
someone who never comes to shul, and never hears Modim in the first place.
What kind of person comes to shul, hears Modim and knows what it is, and
yet doesn't bow?  Surely once you're there and you hear Modim your back
bows automatically, even if you're in the middle of a heated discussion
of <s>politics</s>  <s>real estate</s> er, the Daf.  Yes, definitely the
Daf.  Even if you're deep in, er, the sugya, so long as you're aware that
the chazan is saying Modim, you bow.  The kind of person who comes to shul
and *doesn't* bow at Modim must have some kind of agenda, like the fellow
who says "Modim Modim", or "Al Kan Tzipor...", and thus is a pretty serious
sinner.


-- 
Zev Sero               Meaningless combinations of words do not acquire
zev at sero.name          meaning merely by appending them to the two other
                        words `God can'.  Nonsense remains nonsense, even
                        when we talk it about God.   -- C S Lewis