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IF Hashem had rebuilt the Yeshiva and Torah world
BUT not produced so many outstanding Torah scholars and leaders
DAYEINU it would have been enough

IF Hashem had produced so many outstanding Torah scholars and leaders
BUT not opened the gates of freedom to the oppressed Russian and Ethiopian Jews
DAYEINU it would have been enough

IF Hashem had opened the gates of freedom to the oppressed Russian and Ethiopian Jews
BUT not made Israel’s number of Jews soon to be larger than that of world Jewry for the first
time in two-and-a-half thousand years
DAYEINU it would have been enough

The Chief Rabbinate’s designation of Yom Haatzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim as
days of Hallel and thanksgiving capture the spirit of Dayeinu – to express heartfelt
gratitude and appreciation for the enormity of the miracles that we have experienced
despite the fact that many stages of redemption still remain ahead

May these great days live up to their originally designated aim – to be days of
celebration and appreciation for all of Klal Yisrael for the enormity of the era we are
privileged to live in.

Rav Doron Perez
Chief Executive
Mizrachi World Movement