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HALAKHAH: Rav and Samuel. One said hallelu yah, and the other one said hallēluja. For him who said hallelu yah it is split but cannot be erased. For him who said hallelujah it may be erased but cannot be split. We do not know who said what. Since Rav said, I heard from my uncle, if somebody would give me a book of Psalms written by Rebbi Meïr I could erase all hallelujah in it since he did not intend to sanctify them. This implies that he said hallelujah…

Jerusalem Talmud Sukkah 3:10:2

Rabbi Yoḥanan and Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, Rabbi Yoḥanan said: David said: “Bless the Lord, my soul” five times, corresponding to the five books of the Torah. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: Corresponding to the five worlds that a person sees. “Bless the Lord, my soul, and all that is within me bless His holy name” (Psalms 103:1); when one is located in his mother’s womb. “Bless the Lord, my soul, and do not forget all His acts of kindness” (Psalms 103:2); when he leaves his mother’s womb he says to [his soul]: Do not forget all the acts of kindness that He performed for you…

Vayikra Rabbah 4:7

There are those who ask, what good has the leaving done us? We are enslaved among the other kingdoms. What difference is there really between the kingdom of Egypt and the other kingdoms? —And these words are nonsense, for when Israel went out from Egypt, they received the essential good, such that they were capable themselves of being free, by dint of their elevation, and that elevation is essential to Israel, that they are capable of being free by dint of their own essential elevation. And a happenstance cannot nullify an essential thing at all, because Israel still has that elevation…

Gevurot Hashem 61:2

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