![]() (1) everlasting love You have loved us Lord, our God great and abundant pity have You pitied us. Blessed are You, Lord, Who chooses the people Israel with love. Because, You are the Almighty, Who performs acts of deliverance, and You have chosen us from among all peoples and languages, and You have brought us close to Your great Name in truth to thank You and unify You with love. Bring us in peace from the four corners of the earth and lead us upright to our land. And enlighten our eyes with Your Torah, and attach our hearts to Your mitzvot, and unify our hearts to love and revere Your Name and may we never be embarrassed, for in Your holy Name- great and awe-inspiring- have we trusted may we delight and rejoice in Your deliverance. ![]() Our Parent, merciful Parent, Who acts with compassion, have compassion on us and put into our hearts to understand and to discern, to listen, to learn and to teach, to keep, to practice, and to fulfill all the words of the teachings in Your Torah with love. Our Parent, our Sovereign - for the sake of our ancestors who trusted in You, and whom You taught laws of life, so be gracious to us and teach us. (1) great love You have loved us, Lord, our God great and abundant compassion have You had compassion upon us. ![]() Regardless of whether you think of G-d as an invisible being, a force for good, or something else, when do you feel close to G-d? ![]() If the mission of the Israelites was to spread G-d’s message then they have been remarkably successful, because half of the world today subscribes to a religion based in part on the Jewish Bible (Judaism, Christianity, or Islam). G-d basically is saying that the Israelites were chosen for a specific mission, but everybody has their own relationship with G-d. After all, in the Haftarah for Acharei Mot, Amos quotes G-d as saying “To me, O Israelites, you are just like the Ethiopians - declares the Lord true, I brought Israel up from the land of Egypt, but also the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir” (Amos 9:7). The idea of being chosen should not be thought of as “we’re better than everybody else”. This is the part of the prayer that is the reason the Talmud says that if you forget to say the Torah Blessings at the beginning of Shacharit, this makes up for that (Brachot 11b:10). Context: This is the next part of "Ahava Rabba".
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