DAYEINU!

1. DAYEINU! April 3, 2010

2. Overview • Dayenu (Hebrew:דַּיֵּנוּ) is a song that is part of the Jewish holiday of Passover • source: Wikipedia • Means approximately, "it would have been enough for us", "it would have been sufficient", or "it would have sufficed" (day in Hebrew is "enough", and -enu the first person plural suffix, "to us"). • Over one thousand years (1,000) old • The earliest full text of the song occurs in the first medieval haggadah, which is part of the ninth-century Seder RavAmram.

3. Overview (cont’d) • 15 stanzas • Leaving slavery • Miracles • Being with God • “The song praises the miracles that G-d bestowed on the Jewish People, from the time of their liberation as slaves in Egypt to the construction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem” • (source: About.com)

4. Leaving Slavery (Stanzas 1-5)

5. Egypt (Bringing Out of) • If He had brought us out from Egypt • and had not carried out judgments against them Dayeinu! (It would have sufficed)

6. Judgments (on the Egyptians) • If He had carried out judgments against them, • and not against their idols Dayeinu!

7. Judgments (on the Idols) • If He had destroyed their idols • and not killed their first born Dayeinu!

8. Smiting (of First Born) • If He had smitten their first born • and not given us their wealth Dayeinu!

9. Wealth (of First Born) • If He had given us their wealth • and not split the Sea for us Dayeinu!

10. Summary(Stanzas 6-15)

11. 6) Split the Sea7) Dry Land8) Drowned Oppressors9) Provided for 40 Years10) Manna

12. 11) Shabbat12) Mount Sinai13) Torah14) Sinai15) Israel

13. Dayeinu

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