This week we do not have a distinctive trope when we encounter the word, albeit one almost wishes it could be sung, not in the familiar minor key of lamentation, but in a major key of possibility. Amidst a plethora of extraordinary blessings and assurances of a life of happiness and meaning, Moses anticipates that the people may be apprehensive, 7:13;

כִּ֤י תֹאמַר֙ בִּלְבָ֣בְךָ֔ רַבִּ֛ים הַגּוֹיִ֥ם הָאֵ֖לֶּה מִמֶּ֑נִּי אֵיכָ֥ה אוּכַ֖ל לְהוֹרִישָֽׁם׃

When you say to yourselves, “These nations are more numerous than we; how can we triumph over them?”

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