Modeh ani l'fanecha
ru'ach chai v'kayam.
Thankful I am before
you, the Abiding Spirit.
When I say modah
(thankful), I connect with my sense of gratitude. Then ani (I) with my sense of self. I'm the one that's saying this
prayer. Then l'fanecha (before You),
and suddenly it's not about me. It's about You, God, the One is whose Presence
I am. And so on. I'll go through each prayer like that and that's how my heart
is able to connect. It's coming from inside me. It's not intellectual. I
embody the prayer. I allow myself to say, then really experience, gratitude.
Rabbi Zari M. Weiss.
Photograph by the late Oscar Wolfman.
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