Step #5f: Dayeinu

Dayeinu means ‘It is enough’. This section of the Passover Haggadah explains how that the God of Israel was under no obligation to redeem His people from Egypt. Therefore, every kind act that He does for His people should be received with a thankful heart. The traditional prayer of thanks in the Passover Haggadah consists of the following:

“Therefore it is my duty to thank, to praise, to laud, to glorify, to exalt, to acclaim, to bless, to extol and given respect to Him who performed all these miracles for our fathers and for me. He has brought me forth from slavery to liberty, from sorrow to joy, from mourning to festival, from darkness to bright light and from bondage to redemption. Therefore, let me recite a new song before Him. Hallelujah!”