Talmud su Salmi 35:10

The word of Ḥanan bar Abba⁶The entire paragraph does not belong here but is taken word by word from Chapter 1, Halakhah 8, at note 265 ff. disagrees since Ḥanan bar Abba said to the colleagues: I shall tell you one of the good things that I saw Rav do and, when I told it before Samuel he got up and kissed me on my mouth. At “praised are You”, he bows down. When he comes to mention Hashem, he straightens up. Samuel said: I shall give the reason (Ps. 35:10): “The Lord straightens the bent ones.” Rebbi Ammi said: It is not reasonable, but (Mal. 2:5): “Before My Name he is low.” Rebbi Abun said: If it were written “at My Name he is low” then you would be right, but it is written “before My Name he is low”, before he mentions Hashem he is low.

⁸⁸Here starts an extensive Genizah text edited by Ginzberg in his Yerushalmi Fragments, New York 1909 (G). Rebbi Simon in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi⁸⁹While the name of R. Joshua ben Levi is missing in G and the parallel text ב, in the Babli Berakhot28b the statement is ascribed to the school of R. Joshua ben Levi, whose great authority turns this haggadic statement into halakhic prescription.: corresponding to the eighteen bones in the spine since when a person prays he has to bend all of them bowing down. What is the reason? All my bones shall say, Eternal, who is like You⁹⁰Ps. 35:10.?

Rebbi Simon said, corresponding to the 18 bones in the spine since when a person prays he has to bend all of them bowing down. What is the reason? (Ps. 35:10) “All my bones shall say, o Eternal, who is like You?¹⁴¹In the Babli (28b), this reason for the number 18 is given by Rebbi Tanḥum in the name of R. Joshua ben Levi who notes that, when bowing down in prayer, all joints must be moved.”