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Gateway To Tefilla - The Great Expression of Gratitude "Roka Ha'aretz Al Ha'Mayim"

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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so we're going back to the uh order of the ts we spoke about the materia god relinquishes the bound at night we're bound we're untied and we're tied up there's a degree of paralysis and image some frees us from our fetters and we say the bracha zoi cave kefufen we could stand up straight and now we're ready to put our feet on terra firma and we say reika hashem god spreads out the earth on the water now here's the question and the question is raised by none other than the divre yoyo in rosh hashanah for the samurai he quotes from a first one that asks i mean there's a whole litany of things that you have to be grateful to god for that are mentioned in the 136th chapter of tehillim for example god we say i remember do we say there are a lot of things we could thank hashem for we could thank hashem but i guess that we say but there are a lot of things so why of all of these 26 things do we drum up this idea that god spread the land on the water why that of all things we could say a lot of things we could say but no la roi kahara salamayim this is the question of the dive farshim of arkhan alayam this is not a personal thing loraica this is creation of the world there are many phenomenon in creation that we don't make a specific rakha on why'd after this one so let's begin by learning the lavosh writes when a person gets off his bed and his feet touch the ground you should say roika salamayam allah says that he spread out the earth on the water says it's the opposite of nature because

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  3. 5:39abram he has a very interesting question that if the bracha roika haareth alamoyam refers to…
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