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Are we willing to place our lives in HIS hands and step away from our own thoughts and our own way of living.

Hannah praises the LORD for His salvation and strength. She declares that there is no one holy like the LORD, and no Rock like Him. She speaks of how G‑d reverses circumstances — bringing down the proud and lifting up the humble. She proclaims that G‑d is the One who gives life, raises the poor from the dust, and seats them with princes. The prayer ends with a prophetic declaration about the LORD judging the ends of the earth and giving strength to His anointed. Key Moments 1 Samuel 1:11 — Her vow This is where Hannah makes her vow to G‑d, promising that if He gives her a son, she will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life. 1 Samuel 1:27–28 — The fulfillment of her vow Here Hannah brings Samuel back to the Temple and says that this is the child she prayed for, and that she is now giving him back to the LORD for all the days of his life. 1 Samuel 2 — Her song of praise after the dedication This chapter contains Hannah’s prayer — her song of thanksgiving and exaltation after giving Samuel back to G‑d. My Story It was a warm midsummer evening, and we were sitting outside enjoying the quiet when the Father suddenly made it unmistakably clear that I had to go inside and turn on the TV. Exactly at the moment I did, a film about Mother Teresa began. And throughout that evening, He was already changing my heart. What I saw was a woman who followed her calling — and above all, what she had received in her heart. The pivotal moment in that film, at least the pivotal moment for me, was when she brought the entire organization — which had grown into something huge — back to the simplicity of how it all began. Just her, with her small team of women around her, doing only what she had once received in her heart from the G‑d she believed in. And that night, I already knew that one day I would be confronted with the same principle. I had almost forgotten about it… until I began having problems with my website. Wherever I went, there was irritation, confusion, and being sent from one department to another. Unfair practices, endless back‑and‑forth, and every time I moved to a new provider, the same chaos returned. The breaking point came when my domain was with GoDaddy, my site was built in WIX, and I had a ProtonMail info address. I will spare you the misery — the shutdowns, the technical fights, the fact that my site was taken offline even though everything was fully paid, all while I was in the middle of trying to get it to function properly. And in the middle of that tug‑of‑war, suddenly, in the Spirit, I was taken back to that moment in the Mother Teresa film. And I knew: It had to stop. Business as usual was over. Abba led me to an article online saying that websites have had their greatest days. Connections are made through LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and so on. But beyond that — I am not a business. I am a tiny instrument in very large Hands. My life is surrounded by miracles like a rainbow. I have looked death in the eyes more than once, and yet HE — the Faithful One — rescued me every single time. Not a business. A tiny instrument in the hands of a mighty G‑d. And He had shown me long ago what mattered to Him — so much so that my beautiful summer evening had to be interrupted so I could sit inside and learn lessons that I am now finally putting into practice. No websites. No info addresses. No business as usual. Step out of your own system and follow ME. Lech Lecha. Not your thoughts, but Mine — that was the message. And my mother, who also had her own near‑death experience and knew I was called, would smile now. “You finally understand,” she would have said. She received thirty extra years after giving birth to me — years she was never supposed to have — and after those thirty years, she was called home. In her Bible, she kept a small piece of paper at the passage where Hannah gives her child Samuel back to G‑d. 1 Samuel. Today, HE is still the same. The question is whether we — like Hannah, like Abraham — are willing to place our lives in HIS hands and step away from our own thoughts and our own way of living. HE has not changed. Shmuel Alef 1:11 Orthodox Jewish Bible 11 And she vowed a neder (vow), and said, O Hashem Tzva’os, if thou wilt indeed look on the misery of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid zera anashim, then I will give him unto Hashem kol yamei of his chayyah, and there shall no razor come upon his head. Shmuel Alef 1:27-28 Orthodox Jewish Bible 27 For this child I davened; and Hashem hath given me my petition which I asked of Him; 28 Therefore also I make him one lent to Hashem; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to Hashem. And he worshiped Hashem there. Shmuel Alef 2 Orthodox Jewish Bible 2 And Channah davened, and said, My lev rejoiceth in Hashem, mine keren is exalted in Hashem; my mouth is opened wide over mine oyevim; because I rejoice with simchah in Thy Yeshuah (Salvation). 2 There is none kadosh like Hashem; for there is none besides Thee; neither is there any Tzur like Eloheinu. 3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not atak (insolence) come out of your mouth; for Hashem is El De’ot (a G-d -who intensively knows), and by Him alilot (actions) are weighed. 4 Keshet gibborim are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with chayil (strength). 5 They that were full have hired out themselves for lechem; and they that were hungry are such no more; so that the barren hath born shivah; and she that hath rabbat banim withers in grief. 6 Hashem bringeth mot, and maketh chayyim; He bringeth down to Sheol, and raiseth up. 7 Hashem maketh poor, and bringeth oisher; He bringeth low, and lifteth up. 8 He raiseth up the dal (poor) out of the aphar (dust), and lifteth up the evyon (needy) from the dunghill, to seat them among nedivim (nobles), and to make them inherit the kisse kavod; for the pillars of the earth belong to Hashem, and He hath set the tevel (world) upon them. 9 He is shomer over the feet of His chasidim, and the resha’im shall be silenced in choshech; for by ko’ach shall no ish prevail. 10 Those striving against Hashem shall be shattered; out of Shomayim shall He thunder upon him [the contentious]; Hashem shall judge the afsei eretz (ends of the earth); and He shall give oz (strength) unto His Melech, and exalt the keren (horn, power) of His Moshiach. 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his bais. And the na’ar was mesharet (minister) unto Hashem under Eli HaKohen. 12 Now the Bnei Eli were Bnei Beliyaal; they knew not Hashem. 13 And the mishpat hakohanim (kohen’s custom) with the people was, that, when any ish offered zevach, the na’ar hakohen came, while the basar was cooking, with a mazleg (fork) of shlosh hashineayim (three prongs, lit. teeth) in his yad; 14 And he would plunge it into the kiyyor (basin) or dud (kettle) or kalakhat (caldron) or parur (pot); all that the mazleg brought up the kohen took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto kol Yisroel that came there. 15 Also before they burned the chelev, the na’ar hakohen came, and said to the ish hazove’ach (man making the sacrifice), Give basar to roast for the kohen; for he will not accept cooked basar of thee, only raw. 16 And if any ish said unto him, Let them first not fail to burn the chelev, and then take as much as thy nefesh desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt hand it over to me now; and if not, I will take it by chazakah (force). 17 Wherefore the chattat hane’arim was gedolah me’od before Hashem; for the anashim treated with contempt the minchat Hashem. 18 But Shmuel was mesharet (minister) before Hashem, being a na’ar, girded with an ephod bad (linen robe). 19 Moreover immo made him a me’il katon (a little robe), and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her ish to offer the zevach hayamim (yearly or annual sacrifice, Ex. 28:31f). 20 And Eli put on Elkanah and his isha a brocha, and said, Hashem give thee zera of this isha in place of the she’elah (asked for [one] of) Hashem that was lent. And they went unto his makom (place, home). 21 And Hashem visited Channah, so that she conceived, and bore three banim and two banot. And the na’ar Shmuel grew before Hashem. 22 Now Eli was zaken me’od, and heard all that his banim did unto kol Yisroel; and how they lay with the nashim hatzove’ot (women in ministry service) at the petach Ohel Mo’ed. 23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? For I hear of your evil deeds from kol HaAm (all the People). 24 Nay, my banim; for it is no good report that I hear; ye make Am Hashem to transgress. 25 If one ish sin against another ish, Elohim shall intervene as arbiter for him; but if an ish sin against Hashem, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding they paid heed not unto the kol avihem (voice of their father), because Hashem willed to execute them. 26 And the na’ar Shmuel was growing, and was in favor both with Hashem and also with anashim. 27 And there came an Ish Elohim unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith Hashem, Did I not plainly reveal Myself unto the Bais Avicha, when they were in Mitzrayim under Bais Pharaoh? 28 And did I not choose him out of kol Shivtei Yisroel to be Kohen to Me, to ascend Mine Mizbe’ach, to burn ketoret, to wear an Ephod in My presence? And did I give unto the Bais Avicha all the fire offerings of the Bnei Yisroel? 29 Why kick scornfully at My zevach and My minchah, which I have commanded in My ma’on (habitation, dwelling [See Yn 14:2 OJBC]); and honorest thy banim above Me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of kol minchat Yisroel, before Ami (My People). 30 Therefore Hashem Elohei Yisroel saith, I said indeed that thy Bais, and the Bais Avicha, should walk before Me ad olam (forever); but now Hashem saith, Be it far from Me; for them that honor Me I will honor, and they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. 31 Hinei, the yamim are coming, that I will cut off thine zero’a, and the zero’a of the Bais Avicha, that there shall not be a zaken in thine Bais. 32 And thou shalt see Tzar Ma’on [See 1Sm 4:11 and Jer 7:12-14] in spite of all that He will do of tov to Yisroel; and there shall not be a zaken in thine Bais kol hayamim. 33 And the ish of thine, whom I shall not cut off from Mine Mizbe’ach, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine nefesh; and all the increase of thine Bais shall die anashim [i.e., not zekenim]. 34 And this shall be HaOt unto thee, that shall come upon thy two banim, on Chophni and on Pinchas: in one day they shall die both of them. 35 And I will raise up for Me a Kohen Ne’eman, that shall do according to that which is in Mine lev and in My nefesh; and I will build for him a Bais Ne’eman; and he shall walk before Mine Moshiach kol hayamim. 36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine Bais shall come and bow before him [i.e., the Kohen Ne’eman] to get an agorat kesef (a silver coin) and a kikar lechem (loaf of bread), and shall say, Put me please into one of the Kehunnot (Divisions of the Kehunah), that I may get a piece of lechem to eat. 💫🕊️📜🔥 Zeman ha'pericha sheli hitchil. My blooming time has begun. Do you want to travel with me? For the journey I took, will bring you too, Shalom and Blooming!