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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 127
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Orach Chayim Siman 127 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 2 seifim. Its reading map separates the practical rule, its conditions and the points that need comparison with the surrounding text.
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<b>דין מודים דרבנן. ובו ב סעיפים:</b><br>כשיגיע שליח צבור למודים שוחין עמו הצבור ולא ישחו יותר מדאי ואומרים מודים אנחנו לך (שאתה הוא ה') אלהינו אלהי כל בשר כו' וחותם ברוך אל ההודאות בלא הזכרת השם ויש מי שאומר שצריך לשחות גם בסוף וטוב לחוש לדבריו (ויש אומרים שאומר הכל בשחייה אחת וכן המנהג) (פסקי מהרי"א):
The Laws of Modim D'Rabbanan ["Modim of the Rabbis"]. Containing 2 S'ifim: When the prayer leader reaches "Modim", the congregation bows with [the leader], but they shouldn't bow [down] too far; and they say "We are thankful to You, (that You Hashem are) our God, God of all flesh etc."; and they conclude: "Blessed is the God of thanksgivings" without mentioning the [divine] Name. And there is one [authority] who says that one needs to also bow at the end, and it is proper to heed his words. (There are those who say that one should be bowing once while saying the entire thing, and that is the custom) (Piskei Mahari"a [R. Yisrael Isserlein])
אם אין שם כהנים אומר ש"ץ אלהינו ואלהי אבותינו ברכנו בברכה המשולשת וכו' עד ואני אברכם ואין הצבור עונין אחריו אמן אלא כן יהי רצון: הגה ואין אומרים אלהינו ואלהי אבותינו וכו' רק בזמן שראוי לברכת כהנים ולישא כפים ונהגו לומר בשחרית שים שלום וכן כל זמן שאומר אלהינו כו' אבל בלאו הכי מתחילין שלום רב ויש מתחילין שים שלום במנחה של שבת הואיל וכתיב ביה באור פניך נתת לנו שהיא התורה שקורין במנחה בשבת: (הגהות מיי' פ"ח מהלכות תפלה):
If there are no Kohanim there, the prayer leader says "Our God, and God of our ancestors, bless us with the threefold blessing etc." until "and I will bless them". And the congregation should not answer "Amen" after it, rather [they should say] "May it be Your will". Gloss: We don't say "Our God, and God of our ancestors, etc." except at a time [of day] when it's suitable for the Kohanim to lift their hands [to bless the people]. And we practice is to say "Sim Shalom" in the morning prayer and any time that "Our God, etc." is said, but otherwise, we begin "Shalom Rav". And there are those who say "Sim Shalom" in the afternoon prayer on Shabbat since it says in it [i.e. in Sim Shalom] "by the light of Your countenance You gave us... [a Torah of Life]", which is referring to the Torah, from which we read during the afternoon prayer on Shabbat. (Hagahot Maimoni - chapter 8 in the Laws of Prayer)
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