Partners In Prayer - Siddur

  'By Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Zev Ginzberg, Originally featured in Mishpacha Magazine' At that moment, I knew this family secret of the “Nishmas moment” must be publicized   A llow me to share with you an important family secret about the tefillah of Nishmas. That Nishmas is one of the most powerful and significant tefillos is not a secret. That this tefillah is traced back to the generation of the Tannaim is also no secret. It is also well known that the tefillah has been recommended by many gedolim throughout the generations as a powerful segulah. So then what is this “important family secret” about Nishmas I am about to share? First, let me offer some important background. There are various opinions as to who composed this important tefillah. The first letters of four of the primary pesukim spell the name “Shimon” (backward), a hint that this is the author’s name. But which Shimon is it?  For More... https://mishpacha.com/a-nishmas-moment/

  If you read Nishmas in the context of somebody who had died and who then had been brought back to life twice on the day of the Revelation at Har Sinai, you will therefore really say in a very deep way, “ Nishmas Kol Chai ”, , My connection to my NeShama is going to be totally different if my Neshama leapt out of me twice today! So much joy and clarity and power of connection! So, I begin with Nishmas as someone who experienced twice the experience of your soul leaping out and then coming back in, twice!   And if our lips are truly as filled with song as the sea, and our tongues filled with joy as the waves, … right? If this was really so, we would not be able to … we wouldn't have been able to …. say, “Thank you”. And because this is so, therefore every mountain should thank you!  Every tongue should swear!   But wait -- didn’t we just say that this wouldn't work?     So, let’s learn this, let’s read Nishmas as this intern...