A Salvation Yet Unseen

הוֹשַׁעְנָא לְמַעַנְךְ בּוֹרְאֵנוּ הוֹשַׁעְנָא.

Help us for Your Sake, our Creator, Help us.

A Salvation Yet Unseen

In our tefillos each day, we refer to Hashem as "Borei Refuos," the One who creates healing. This wording is significant. Hashem does not merely provide healing; He creates it, bringing cures and remedies into existence where none existed before.

We see this with our own eyes. There are many who suffer from illnesses for which no cure can be found, despite all the medicines and treatments that already exist in the world. For them, the Ribbono Shel Olam must create a new cure, one that modern medicine has not yet seen.

The same is true of every kind of yeshuah.

Chazal teach (Sotah 49a), "There is not a day whose curse is not greater than the day before it." Every day brings its own burdens, its own darkness. Every new day carries challenges that yesterday did not contain, needs that yesterday did not know, and wounds that yesterday did not have to heal. And so, each day again, the Ribbono Shel Olam must create new yeshuos, salvations for circumstances that did not exist before, answers to questions that had never previously been asked.

Indeed, our holy Avos and Rebbes, through the extraordinary kedushah of their lives and their unwavering avodas Hashem, continually labored with mesiras nefesh to draw new yeshuos into the world, opening new channels of rachamim and brachah to countless Yidden.

But from those days until our own, we have fallen so very far. The spiritual strength that once illuminated the world has diminished, and the challenges confronting Klal Yisrael have taken on forms our ancestors could never have imagined. We are living with tzaaros for which the yeshous of yesterday are no longer enough. We need new yeshous. We need the Ribbono Shel Olam to create something that has never yet existed.

And so, we turn to Him and plead, למענך בוראנו הושענא-For Your sake, our Creator, save us.

Have compassion upon us, Ribbono Shel Olam, and create for us the yeshuos we need today. Bring into the world yeshous that have never yet been seen, salvations for troubles for which no remedy has yet been found, a light where we can no longer see a path to redemption.

הוֹשַׁעְנָא לְמַעַנְךְ גּוֹאֲלֵנוּ הוֹשַׁעְנָא

Help us for Your Sake, Our Redeemer, Help us.