Q&A: Not Logical
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Not Logical
Question
The saying, "until your lips wear out from saying enough," doesn’t make sense, because the letters d-y don’t require moving the lips, so how would they wear out?
Answer
A tremendous question. They’ll say "enough" so many times that even with this word their lips will wear out.
And seriously, I’m sure you can think this through on your own.
Discussion on Answer
There’s a well-known answer in the yeshiva world that that itself is the point: the lips really won’t wear out, and therefore the blessing will never stop.
In the Tosefta the version is:
"a blessing of Dayeinu."
Haha, precisely because they don’t move the lips, they don’t produce saliva, and therefore they’ll wear out.