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From: Martin S Jaffee <jaffee@u.washington.edu>
List Editor: "Mendelsohn, Adam D" <MendelsohnA@COFC.EDU>
Editor's Subject: Query: Modim de-Rabbanan
Author's Subject: Re: H-JUDAIC Digest - 19 Nov 2009 to 20 Nov 2009 (#2009-202)
Date Written: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:04:46 -0800 (PST)
Date Posted: Mon, 22 Nov 2009 11:06:53 -0500

Of all the possible liturgical texts that could conceivably adorn a synagogue
wall, one sees--at least in Orthodox synagogues--only the modim de-rabbanan.
Can anyone point to a source for this? Why not, for example, the shema?
Thanks in advance.
Martin S. Jaffee
University of Washington

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