Reply To: Popa is Brave

I said v’achar kein. That was how it was in whichever siddur I used as a kid, apparently.

You know, if y’all would have davened when you were a kid, you’d know it all by heart also.

I don’t ever even take a siddur. Even on shabbos. The only time I take a siddur is for Mon-thu tachanun. And I take it before tachanun and put it back after.

Shabbos is easy. The first y’kum purkan is for the rabbis, so you end the words with ???, which means “them.” The second one is for the community, so you end the word with ??? which means “you.” Nothin’ to it. You know you are messing up on yontiff if you pause to think about if you should say ?? ?? or ??.

One of my brothers can do barchi nafshi. I can’t. I know most of it by heart, but I don’t always know what the next paragraph is.