In this, our final session of this course, we will extend our careful study of the 3rd blessing of the Shema — “Geulah”–in the evening and the morning, to the final portion of each of these, in which the subject is the exodus from Egypt, and finish our comparison of the evening and morning blessings. We will explore the halachic requirement not to interrupt between this blessing and the Tefilat haAmidah. We will also point out a connection to the Rosh Hashanah prayers.
Finally, we will examine the 4th blessing of the evening recitation of Shema, “Hashkiveinu”, and try to understand why it was legislated.