Weekly Tefilah Focus

What are the three most frequent and arguably the most powerful words (outside of words of Torah) that we say every single day of our lives? Many of us will recite these words, b’ezras Hashem, close to or over three million times over the course of our lives.

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.

We ended the last segment with the following questions:

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.

The tefilah of Adon Olam has been given much prominence. It was placed at the start of our daily Shacharis tefilah, it is recited by many nightly before going to bed, and we begin our Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur tefilos in the morning using a special nusach for this inspiring tefilah. In effect, we start and end our day with Adon Olam every day of the year and give it even more attention on Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur.

How exciting and energizing it is to begin a new cycle of Weekly Tefilah Focus!