Editing "Vehi She'amda" - Niggun (section)

== Meaning of the Niggun ==
The words of the niggun reflect Jewish history in exile. On one hand, terrible persecutions and attempts to destroy the Jewish people, and on the other hand, its wondrous continued existence. The Jewish people facing their many enemies are "like a sheep among seventy wolves," and Hakadosh Baruch Hu saves us from their hands.

"Vehi She'amda" - The word "vehi" refers to the promise that Hashem gave to Avraham Avinu in the Covenant Between the Parts regarding the exodus from Egypt - "it is this that has stood for our fathers and for us" - in the Egyptian exile (and in its merit we were saved from those who "stood against us to destroy us").

Similarly, the word "vehi" refers to all the promises given to the Jewish people throughout the generations by the prophets - through which we held strong also in other exiles (after the exodus from Egypt) throughout all generations.

In Kabbalistic texts, it is explained that "ve'''hi'''" refers to the sefirah of Malchus - the power of faith that the Jewish people are "believers, the children of believers." Through faith and trust in Hashem, our forefathers were redeemed from Egypt, and so too in every generation, it is faith that has stood for us, that the Jewish people withstood all trials and remained whole, only through the power of faith and mesirus nefesh.

The Rebbe connects between the two interpretations mentioned for the word "vehi," the attribute of faith and trust in Israel (interpretation 2) is what awakens the promise from above (interpretation 1). When a Jew, even if unworthy, trusts completely that Hashem will give him children, life, and sustenance, knowing that "all that the Merciful One does is for good" - then his trust awakens and draws down the promise from above.

So it was in Egypt and so it is in every generation, that the trust from below awakens the promise from above, which brings about the redemption from exile, through Moshiach Tzidkeinu.