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We covered most of Modeh Ani in the last two segments and are now up to the last two words: “rabbah emunasecha (abundant is Your faithfulness).” These words require understanding, since if we are referring to our great emunah in Hashem, the wording would have been different.
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.
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).
How exciting and energizing it is to begin a new cycle of Weekly Tefilah Focus!
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)
