פירוש על ברכות 67:14
Tosafot on Berakhot
THEY TEACH HIM NOT TO BOW.There is no apparent reason why one cannot bow more than the Gemara allows him to bow. And if you ask: and let him bow and what of it?
And we can answer: so that he should not come to uproot the words of the sages even when he wants to be more stringent than they. So that they should not say all individuals are stringent as they please and there is no enactment of the sages that brings about harmonious behavior, and also we are concerned about arrogance. Some people will attempt to show off their piety by adopting stringent behavior that is unnecessary. Our Sages opposed this type of individual expression.
And we can answer: so that he should not come to uproot the words of the sages even when he wants to be more stringent than they. So that they should not say all individuals are stringent as they please and there is no enactment of the sages that brings about harmonious behavior, and also we are concerned about arrogance. Some people will attempt to show off their piety by adopting stringent behavior that is unnecessary. Our Sages opposed this type of individual expression.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The first benediction of the Tefillah.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
"We give thanks unto Thee," Singer, p. 51, and "Whose name is all-good," p. 53.
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