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Podcast: The Tefilah Podcast
Episode: A Messy Inquiry Into the Origin of the Phrase Re'eh v'Anyeinu
Description: Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!This evening (6/17/21 at YBT), in our final Tehilim shiur of the year, we changed the plans that we set forth on Tuesday. Instead of trying to figure out Tehilim 25, we focused on the reason that brought us there in the first place: the opening phrase in the 7th berachah of the Shemoneh Esrei. The Abudirham traces this phrase to a pasuk in Tehilim, but it's unclear which pasuk he's referring to: Tehilim 119:153 or Tehilim 25:18. We decided to examine both sources in context in hopes of figuring out...