Ana Yah hoshiyah na, Ana Yah hatzliycha na

Please God, grant us new Life; please God, make us successful! (Psalm 118:25)

Psalm 118, the concluding Psalm of Hallel, overflowing with extravagant praise and gratefulness, sends us our own strength. From here we call to God. Our calling is from a stance of fullness, calm confidence and the celebration of the ongoing Divine flow of abundance, justice and truth.

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch translates “hoshiyah” not as save us, or deliver us… but grant new Life. “Y’shuah,” he says, is “undimmed vigor of one’s own life and existence; Yud-Shin-Ayin is the true, genuine YESH.” (is-ness) So, from the fullness of celebration we ask that this joy might invigorate our existence and then open us to the source of prosperity. As we receive the force of new life, we ask that it be channeled in ways that help us succeed, manifesting our highest dreams and most passionate purpose.

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