Every morning, from the time I was a little child, I would parrot my mother and say Modeh Ani upon awakening. Now that I am older, I still thank Hashem for giving me life every day, but with a deeper ...

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When people ask me to describe the God I believe in, I often start by using the image of a flame. We are taught that each of us has a divine spark within us. That divine spark at times burns brightly, ...

When I wake up in the morning and decide that I am conscious enough to actually rise from my bed, I say twelve words: Modah ani lefanecha, Melech chai v’kayam, shechechzarta bi nishmati. B’chemla raba ...

Tal Vaknin is an internationally acclaimed singer and composer in the Jewish Pop and soul music. Tal just released a multi-lingual version of the well-known song "Modeh Ani” translated to FOUR ...

Perhaps the strangest phrase in the daily morning prayer of Modeh Ani is Rabbah Emunatecha, "lots of Your faith" for classically, we associate faith with man. What would His faith mean? We have faith ...

Dear Readers: Everywhere you turn, it seems that people are beset with so many problems and worries; some are financial in nature, some revolve around social issues like shidduchim and marriage, some ...

For what she described as her practice sounds remarkably similar to the recitation of the Modeh An i prayer. As the My Jewish Learning website succinctly reminds us: “Traditionally, Jews begin each ...

The words of Modeh Ani do not contain any name of God, which means that we can say Modeh Ani i immediately on opening our eyes, without needing to first get up and wash our hands. The prayer is ...