Near the end of Slihot every night, the evocative piyut “Mi She’Ana” (“He Who Answered”) is recited. It recounts Biblical personalities whom God answered and helped in their times of crisis or distress, and turns to God to answer us as well.
The first lines of Mi She’Ana read: “He who answered Avraham on Mount Moriah—He will answer us” and “He who answered Yitzhak his son as he was bound on the altar- He will answer us.”
