[Avodah] modim

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 05/24/2016 09:46 AM, Eli Turkel via Avodah wrote:
>> 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.

> The gemara in Baba Kama 16a seems to be talking about bowing at modim
> in the shemonei esre and not modim derabban (the gemara is talking
> about the spine changing to a snake 7 years after death)

Even better.  What kind of person davens, and yet davka stays upright at
modim?  Only someone who's got a theological issue with bowing to Hashem.

-- 
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