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Do some people shuckle when they daven because they have a hard time standing still without moving and shuckle to help ease this unpleasant feeling of being forced to stand still?
There are mekoros for this — starting with the Zohar…
Maybe for some, but I think for most people it’s social/cultural. That’s why when you look at a crowd devening most people are shuckling, even though most of them don’t have ADHD.
Shuckling is minhag Yisroel.
However, repeating words, especially in Shema or even S”E, is ADHD and is disgusting.
[in davening] 3-4 times and this is strange and very bad.”
Repeating words seems more like OCD than ADHD.
Or a mere tendency for accuracy.
Rav Soloveichik is quoted in “On Repentance” as saying that when he told the chazan in his shul not to repeat words he was told that that would ruin the tune. Apparently some people do not know the difference between a bet knesset and a bet opera.
Avi K, that’s what oy-oy-oys are for.
I’m very sad about that
I have heard some significance on shuckling during daveinng. when your leaning forward while davening it symbolizing ahava for Hashem, and leaning back is for yirah. I find it very effective in kavanah also.
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