[Avodah] questions about krias hatefillah

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

Regardless of the details, for the purpose of the current discussion 
it's sufficient to point out that lechol hade'os, in the first Bayis 
there was no nusach hatefillah.  The mitzvah mid'oraisa is for each 
person to daven in his own words, and it was only at the beginning of 
the second Bayis that Chazal gave guidelines, which gradually took on 
more and more formality, and it wasn't until the Geonim that there was a 
fixed siddur so that everyone was saying the same words from beginning 
to end.

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