This thread reminds me of the Yom Kippur night when the rov saw that ???? ???? were not so open, so he would not begin the ?? ????. The kehilla waited, to no avail.
Next door, a simple shepherd who could not read, said with such kavanah the aleph bais and begged Hashem to put the letters in the correct order of the tfilla.
It was this simple shepherd’s nusach that opened the gates.