| chana davenens, while facing the kodesh hakodoshim and creis bitterly... |
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 | 'Hashem, please see how miserble your maidservant is! you created so many souls in heaven. They all come to this world whenever it is time for the to be born. Is it too much for you to give me one soul from from all the billions that you have?! | |
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| Chana continued davening. |
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| Hashem, I was always carefull to keep the mitzvos you gave to jewish woman. One of them is that whenever we bake bread, using a certain amount of dough, we must take off challa, that is, give a piace of dough to the koen. I have never failed to keep this mitzva. Hashem you created a woman so that she should be a mother. Please, let me fulfill the purpose for which you made me! It is not for myself that i want a son, but only for you honor! benai yisroel need talmidai chachamim who will guide them. For this reason alone i am asking you for a son, a boy who will grow up to be a talmid chacham and a tzadik. Chana made a promise, as righteous people often do in times of trouble. Since her son would be a laivi, for his father Elkana was one, he would ussuilly begin to be trained in the service of the mishkan at 25. | |
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