An Amida during the rainy season without any reference to G-d’s
role in making the weather is considered fatally flawed, and
must be said over. Specifically, if one omits MASHIV HARU’ACH
UMORID HAGASHEM (hereafter MHUH) from the second bracha of the
Amida, AND does not say MORID HATAL either, the Amida must be
repeated. In Israel (and in many And what if you remember within
the second bracha? There are two different opinions. One opinion
is that as soon as one realizes the omission (remember, within
the second bracha), he goes back to ATA GIBOR and tries again.
Some say that it is only necessary to back to MHUH, the ATA
GIBOR part was said and untainted by the omission. The other
opinion is that one says MHUH wherever the omission was
realilzed, without going back to the beginning of the bracha.
But one should say MHUH between phrases, not within one. For
example, one can say SOMEICH NOFLIM, MHUH, V’ROFEI CHOLIM, but
should say SOMEICH MHUH NOFLIM. The text of the second bracha of
the Amida is printed in the