<div dir="ltr">from wikipedia<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">The language of the Amidah most likely dates from the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishna" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="Mishna" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">mishnaic</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> period, both before and after the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem" title="Temple in Jerusalem" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">destruction of the Temple</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> (70 CE) at which time it was considered unnecessary to prescribe its text and content.</span><sup id="gmail-cite_ref-5" class="gmail-reference" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amidah#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial">[5]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> The Talmud indicates that when Rabbi </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamaliel_II" title="Gamaliel II" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Gamaliel II</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> undertook to fix definitely the public service and to regulate private devotion, he directed </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_ha-Katan" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="Samuel ha-Katan" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Samuel ha-Katan</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> to write another paragraph inveighing against </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage#Agents_in_espionage" title="Espionage" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">informers</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy_in_Judaism" title="Heresy in Judaism" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">heretics</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, which was inserted as the twelfth prayer in modern sequence, making the number of blessings nineteen.</span><sup id="gmail-cite_ref-6" class="gmail-reference" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amidah#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial">[6]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> Other sources, also in the Talmud, indicate, however, that this prayer was part of the original 18;</span><sup id="gmail-cite_ref-7" class="gmail-reference" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amidah#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial">[7]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> and that 19 prayers came about when the 15th prayer for the restoration of Jerusalem and of the throne of David (coming of the Messiah) was split into two.</span></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.2px;white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap">From numerous gemaras it is obvious that the exact details of many brachot were not detailed</span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap"> for many generations. It is obvious as Micha points out that some form of the amidah is </span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap">from second Temple times. </span></font><span style="white-space:nowrap;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif">The question is how rigid it was until R Gamaliel and even later</span></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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