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
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.
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.
ורחם עלינו, והושיענו, כי אליך עינינו, כי אל מלך חנון ורחום אתה.
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,
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