Skip to main content

Yaaleh Viyavo

Tehillim 123

שיר המעלות, אליך נאשתי את עיני, היושבי בשמים,
הנה כעיני עבדים אל יד אדונהים, כעיני שפחה אל יד גברת
כן עיניו אל יהוה אלהינו, עד שיחננו
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,

as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress,

so our eyes look to the Lord our God,

till he finds favor on us.

Yaaleh Vyavo, end of prayer:
זָכְרֵנוּ ה' אֱלֹהֵינוּ בּוֹ לְטוֹבָה, וּפָּקְדֵנוּ בוֹ לִבְרָכָה, וְהוֹשִׁיעֵנוּ בוֹ לְחַיִּים וּבִדְבַר יְשׁוּעָה וְרַחֲמִים חוּס וְחָנֵּנוּ, וְרַחֵם עָלֵינוּ, וְהוֹשִׁיעֵנוּ כִּי אֵלֶיךָ עֵינֵינוּ, כִּי אֵל מֶלֶךְ חַנּוּן וְרַחוּם אָתָּה

Remember us Hashem our G-d in it for Good,

and bring to us in it Blessing, and bring us in it Salvation for Life, and in the salvation and mercy, חוס וחננו….. כי אליך עינינו.



Psalms 123, King David is saying,
I'm looking to You G-d: Like the eyes of a servant to his masters             

Like in the eyes of a maidservant, to her mistress,
                        So too are our eyes to You, Hashem our G-d,
                                            UNTIL YOU” חננו”  Connect us to our beautiful Innocence
And then King David proceeds to ask Hashem to give us this Chen, because we’eve suffered degrading.

 It seems that King David is saying that its not ideal to be looking to Hashem like a servant, or a maidservant.
Rather, we are asking this way, because we are low on ourselves, we've suffered degrading, we don't believe in ourselves, we don't see our Chen.

חננו יהוה חננו.
King David is asking Hashem to return to us this Chen, so that we can look to Hashem in a different way. That He is our Empower-er, He loves us and cares for us and want us to succeed.
When do we see this other way of looking to Hashem?
In the prayer Yaaleh, Vyavo.
When Hashem is giving us חן. 

In the words חוס וחננו.
ורחם עלינו, והושיענו, כי אליך עינינו, כי אל מלך חנון ורחום אתה.

We're asking Hashem חוס וחננו ורחם עלינו, והשיענו,
Why?
כי אליך עינינו.  Because our eyes are to you,
And we're looking to you as a כי אל מלך חנון ורחום אתה, as a loving merciful King אל מלך who is חנון and רחום.

Through the light of Chag,
of each of us bringing our gift to Hashem, איש כמתנת ידו, כברכת יהוה אלהיך אשר נתן לך,

By: Simchah Katzoff

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

TAKING IT WITH YOU-MISHPATIM-ALEINU

Our sages teach us, “On the Red Sea, God appeared to them like a young boy, while at Sinai, He appeared like an old man.” At first thought, this is extremely difficult to understand, since it is written, “You have not seen   any image (To see Deuteronomy 4:15).” We can explain this with an example. When a parent loves his child, this great love causes the child’s image to be engraved on the parent’s mind. It is therefore as if the child were actually standing in the presence of the parent. When the child is young, he exists in his parent’s mind in the image of a small child. Later, when he grows, the image in the parent’s thoughts is that of an older person.   It is known that, “Israel rose first in thought.” This means that they are constantly engraved in the Supernal Thought, just as a child is in its parent’s mind. When a child acts properly and does what its parent wishes, this is the image that is engraved in its parent’s thoughts. The same is true when the child goes aga...
Post a Comment
Read more

Goodness and Blessing

 “May it be Your Will, God, our Lord, and the Lord of our forefathers, that You inaugurate this month upon us for goodness and for blessing.” We pray for Moshe’s third trip even before we receive his report of his second. We pray assuming that we will not only be forgiven, but will be granted even more as Moshe ascends Sinai for a third time. We acknowledge God, that He is our Lord. We call on the merit of our forefathers. By: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg
Post a Comment
Read more

Consistent proportions ....

  Ketores   Ketores reminds me of stoichiometry, which is a fancy word in chemistry for proportions. Let’s take H 2 O (water)—it is a proportion of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen. No matter how much water I have, whether it’s the volume of a swimming pool, or a tiny drop, it has constant molecular proportionality; every water molecule in that pool or in that tiny drop is no more and no less than two hydrogens for every one oxygen. We have proportionality in the ketores: “1) Balsam, 2) onycha, 3) & galbanum 4) frankincense – the weight of 70 maneh each. 5) myrrh, 6) cassia & 7) spikenard & 8) saffron – [each] a weight of 16, 16 maneh. 9) costus – 12 maneh 10) aromatic bark – three [maneh] 11) cinnamon – 9 (maneh) [Added also were] Lye of Carsina – 9 Kavs (a measure), Wine of Cypres – 3 Seahs and 3 kavs- and if one did not find wine of Cypres – he brings old wine. Salt of Sodom – a quarter [of a kav.]… Rabbi Yehuda said “This is the general rule – if it is ...
Post a Comment
Read more