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- Mentioning Rain
Answer: On Shmini Azeret/Simchat Torah at Musaf, we (in Israel) began to ask for rain with the prayer Mashiv HaRuach U'Morid haGashem. On 7 Cheshvan, we insert an additional petition for rain - V'tayn tal u'matar - into the bracha of "Barech Aleynu" in the Amida. It is in this paragraph that we ask for Hashem's sustenance, which is linked to rain, which is needed at this time in Israel. Shmuel the Sage established the Diaspora petition to begin on the 60th day after the autumnal equinox (when rain was needed in Babylonia), a solar figure which falls either Dec. 4 or 5. This remains the Diaspora date. One who forgets this petition must say the Amida over again. If in doubt whether he said it or not, one must repeat the Amida, unless he has said the phrase for 30 days (or repeated it 90 times!) to habituate himself to saying it.
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Hosha'ana Rabba FLYDUBAI & HOSHANA RABBA- ANI VAHU HOSHIA NA- I & HIM SAVE US
"Ani vaHu Hoshia Na", "I and Him, Save Us". We don't just pray to Him, but we also pray to and for ourselves that we should emulate and educate our children to have that instinctive altruism with which He created the world. President Trump seemed amused about Yaniv Hayon, our PLUMBER who confidently worked with G-d like Superman (he learned from a pilot on a TV show!) to save 174 lives on the Dubai hijacking, but we in Israel are totally accustomed already 78 years to our plumbers, teachers, garbage-men, rabbis, farmers & doctors being Hashem's shlichim! This is what Zionism is about.
