Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community Nothing in life is an accident. In Parashas Va’eschanan, we read about the Arei Miklat, the...
We began with the first three words of “Modeh Ani,” acknowledging our awareness that we are always in the presence of Hashem and that everything that comes our way during the course of the day ahead is from Hashem and for our benefit.
Then the tribe of Yehudah became His holy nation (for jumping into the threatening Yam Suf first), and klal Yisrael became under Hashem’s rule (and no longer under the Egyptians’ rule).
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B’tzeis Yisrael miMitzrayim, Beis Yaakov mei’am lo’eiz.
When klal Yisrael [the men] left from the land of Mitzrayim, (and) Beis Yaakov [the women] left from a people of a foreign language (that they did not understand)
Ha’yam ra’ah vayanos, HaYarden yisov l’achor.
The Yam Suf saw klal Yisrael going in and fled (split), (and at that time) the Yarden River (and all the waters in the world miraculously) turned backwards.
M’kimi mei’afar dal, mei’ashpos yarim evyon.
He (looks even to the lowest and) raises up the extremely poor from the dust, (and) He lifts up the destitute from the garbage dumps.
