Welcome to Daily Bitachon . We are now in pesukim from Eicha that give us chizuk . In Perek 3, pasuk 22 it says, / חסדי ה׳ כי לא תמנו Hashem's kindness surely has not ended Nor are His mercies exhausted / כי לא כלו רחמיו This is the simple English translation. Now let's look at Rashi : חסדי ה׳ כי לא תמנ ו simply means, as we just said, that Hashem's kindness has not ended. But Rashi gives another explanation : חסדי ה׳ כי לא תמנו — you know what the kindness of Hashem is ? כי לא תמנו /that we have not perished. We are still here today . That's the chesed — that despite all our sins, Chasdei Hashem says: we're here. We are still surviving. The sefer Yedei Moshe looks back to the words just before Chasdei Hashem . We didn't mention it earlier, but Eicha is written according to the Alef - Bet . Chasdei Hashem ki lo tamnu is in the ח Chet verse. Before that, in zayin , it says: זכור תזכור ותשוח עלי נפשי / My soul remembers well and sinks within me The Yedei Moshe explains that this means he is in a state of despair / ye'ush . He has hit rock bottom. And then he turns around and says: זאת אשיב אל לבי/ This I bear in mind, על כן אוחיל / Therefore, I still have hope So here we are, listening to a Navi expressing on his behalf and on behalf of Klal Yisrael : " We're in a state of despair. What do I do at that point? What do I place upon my heart?" Yesterday, we explained the deeper meaning of zot ashiv el libi . Today, we'll go with the simple meaning: זאת אשיב אל לבי / You know what I'm going to set on my heart to pull me out of despair ?" חסדי ה׳ כי לא תמנו / The kindness of Hashem never ends This means even though I may have no hope, Hashem's chesed might suddenly come upon me in a wondrous way. And He will once again have mercy on me and pull me out of my problem . So what's the answer to despair? Hope for Hashem's kindness. Why? Because this kindness never ends. Why does it never end? כי לא כלו רחמיו / Because Hashem's mercy never ends And when He sees that we've reached such a low point that we have despaired — that's when His mercy kicks in. And from that mercy, the chesed begins again. That's when we remember: Have I hit rock bottom? Am I at my lowest point? Yes — but that's exactly when Hashem's mercy must respond. The Yedei Moshe adds another point. He explains the words of the pasuk : זאת אשיב אל לבי על כן אוחיל / This I bear in mind, therefore I still have hope And he explains: the word אוחיל ochil doesn't only mean "hope for the future." Ochil also means, in his words: tikkun hara'ot ve'hatzarot — that Hashem will fix all the difficulties and challenges. Hashem will bring upon us so much good in place of all those challenges, that everything will be fully repaired and we'll be completely comforted. That's what al ken ochil means: I hope for a complete reversal. I recently heard a story from Israel that illustrates this. A man had already been in contract to sell his apartment building when that the same building was struck by a missile. Baruch Hashem. The seller is happy but the buyer wanted to renege. And then — lo and behold — the government announced that the damage to that building was so severe, that they would rebuild it. Suddenly, this will be a brand-new apartment. Now the seller wants to renege, and the buyer is thrilled. So yes — a tzarah can come upon someone, a real physical tzarah , and the good that comes afterward replaces it with a tikkun and tremendous comfort and it might end up even better than it was before. That's what the Yedei Moshe says the Navi is thinking: Hashem's kindness and mercy are so never-ending — they'll carry me through and turn it all around. And this pasuk is extremely important because every day in Modim we say: הטוב כי לא כלו רחמיך God is good and His mercy never ends המרחם כי לא תמו חסד The Merciful One, because His kindness never ceases The Avudraham , whom we've quoted many times, finds the source for many of our tefillot in pesukim . After all, our tefillot are Torah she'be'al peh , and our pesukim are Torah she'bichtav . The source for this line that we say every single day in Modim is this very pasuk in Eichah : הטוב כי לא כלו רחמיך , המרחם כי לא תמו חסדיך . Chasdei Hashem ki lo tamnu chasdecha, ki lo calu rachamav — The words match up exactly. Hashem's kindness doesn't stop, and His mercy doesn't stop. That's our pasuk . And it beautifully ends with: כי לעולם קווינו לך / For we have hoped to You forever That's the secret of hope in our Modim . The secret of our hope is Hashem's kindness and mercy. Unbelievable — this pasuk of hope in Eicha is inserted right into our daily prayers! Wonder of wonders. As I said, these are the treasures we find when we explore the pesukim .