Sa’if 4. Mechaber: If, in response to a claim for 100 dinarim, the defendant denied that he owed anything at all, but witnesses testified that he owed the plaintiff 50 dinarim, the defendant must pay ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...