Uva Letzion Goel in 5773 - The Full Count
From my summary of Rav Fish's posting from last Yom Kippur:
In the name of Harav Hagaon R' David Samson Shlit"a: we find in the Siddur HaRasha"sh that when saying the chapter of Tehillim (Psalm 20) יענך ה' ביום צרה, which contains 70 words, one should have in mind the 70 sounds of a birthing mother, and when saying the Kedusha of Uva Letziyon, one should have in mind the birth of the Heavenly influence of the entire day. It comes out that the words, ובא לציון גואל are words 71, 72, and 73 respectively. Going a bit deeper, the words ובא לציון hint to the birth as Tziyon symbolizes the birthplace, whereas גואל hints to the actual Redemption, in the year 5773.Expanding on this idea, we can go further back in time and further back in the prayers to the beginning of Tahanunim on Monday and Thursday. The year of the destruction of the second Beit Hamikdash is traditionally held to be 3828. Of course, the Beit Hamikdash was destroyed due to our sins so beginning with the Vidui of Tahanunim right after the destruction seems very appropriate.
Various Nus'ha'ot can alter the count. I happened to use the first Siddur I had handy, which was the למען שמו באהבה Siddur. Other Sephardic Siddurim would not alter the count by very much.
Paragraph | No. of Words | Running Year Count |
---|---|---|
- | - | 3828 |
אשמנו | 941 | 3922 |
מה נאמר2 | 39 | 3961 |
יהי רצון2 | 87 | 4048 |
א-ל ארך אפים | 31 | 4079 |
ויעבר | 23 | 4102 |
רחום וחנון | 7 | 4109 |
לדוד | 165 | 4274 |
ה' | 10 | 4284 |
אבינו מלכנו | 116 | 4400 |
א-ל מלך | 59 | 4459 |
ויעבר | 23 | 4482 |
אנשי אמונה | 75 | 4557 |
א-ל מלך | 59 | 4616 |
ויעבר | 23 | 4639 |
תמהנו | 79 | 4718 |
א-ל מלך | 59 | 4777 |
ויעבר | 23 | 4800 |
אלקינו | 81 | 4881 |
והוא רחום | 195 | 5076 |
אבינו אב הרחמן | 115 | 5191 |
אנא | 36 | 5227 |
אין כמוך | 953 | 5322 |
הפותח | 92 | 5414 |
קדיש | 55 | 5469 |
א-ל ארך אפים | 25 | 5494 |
א-ל ארך אפים | 26 | 5520 |
Verses for taking out the Sefer Torah | skip4 | 5520 |
יהי חסדך | 7 | 5527 |
אשרי | 173 | 5700 |
למנצח | 70 | 5770 |
ובא לציון גואל | 3 | 5773 |
1) This number will vary the most according to various Siddurim.
2) Many siddurim put מה נאמר and יהי רצון right before והוא רחום, but the count is unaffected.
3) I cheated a bit here as the למען שמו באהבה siddur - as do most Sephardic siddurim - have only 94 words, but some Sephardic siddurim have 95 words as they start this paragraph אין כמוך חנון ורחום ה' אלקינו like Ashkenazic siddurim. Hashem's name is omitted in the former.
4) I only included the א-ל ארך אפים paragraphs since they are supplicatory prayers, whereas everything else that is associated with the Sefer Torah is omitted.
2 Comments:
I thought 5772 was the year?
:-) Shana Tova U'Metuka
from Eretz Yisrael, the "Promised Land" :-)
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