Praying Alive: Standing Before God - Modim | Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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Okay, good afternoon everyone. Uh, today uh, today's learning and learning for this entire week is dedicated by the Daniel Slobe Torah Center founders Michael and Joseph God in honor of the marriage of Khloe and Albert Taman, their parents uh, by their parents Joe and Vanessa God and Joe and Carol Tamman. Uh, we're wishing you only the very best uh, in this incredible incredible period in your lives. U, first kid to marry off uh, for the for Joe and Vanessa. So it's an incredible experience. Hashem should bless you to see and your entire family. Okay, let us see and your entire family. Okay, let us begin. So we are up to the of Modim. But before we get begin, there's an element that we need to speak about. And that element is that which happens as we begin the of uh what is that? As we say, the is a person has an obligation to bow and that's how they begin the by bowing. um in in uh in Modim. Now, what's interesting is that there's a lot of different things that can kind of go into bowing uh culturally. Just a into bowing uh culturally. Just a interesting thing to think about for a minute when do people bow? Just think for a minute. You realize people bow to show respect, right? People bow to show humility. People bow to show an element of gratitude. People bow to show acknowledgement. And people bow in submission. All five of those different elements of the bowing of mim kind of like snake off into into different angles, right? If you think about it, because each one of

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