Ya'Aleh Ve-Yavo

("May [our remembrance] arise and come ... [before You]"). Key words and title of a special paragraph inserted in the three daily Amidah prayers (though not in the Additional Service) on New Moons and Pilgrim Festivals, including the intermediate days of Passover and Sukkot. On all of these occasions and on Rosh Ha-Shanah, it is also inserted in the third paragraph of Grace After Meals. Scriptural authority for this petition was found in Numbers 10:10; it must have been composed in talmudic times, as the sages mention its inclusion in the Amidah (Ber. 29b; Sof. 19:7) and in the statutory Grace (Sof. 19:11). The essence of Ya'aleh ve-Yavo is a prayer that God may call to mind the forefathers and the entire House of Israel, His promised Messiah and Jerusalem, His holy city, so that "deliverance, mercy, life, peace" and other blessings will be granted to the Jewish people on this festive day. When recited aloud, the three brief petitions that follow are answered by a congregational response of amen.

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