Editing Joshua (section)

====In prayer====
According to Jewish religious tradition, upon making [[Aliyah]] by crossing the Jordan River to enter the [[Land of Israel]], Joshua composed the [[Aleinu]] prayer thanking God. This idea was first cited in the [[Kol Bo]] of the late 14th Century.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.etzion.org.il/en/shiur-18-aleinu |title=Shiur #18: Aleinu &#124; VBM haretzion |access-date=2021-01-30 |archive-date=2021-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123044027/https://www.etzion.org.il/en/shiur-18-aleinu |url-status=live }}</ref> Several medieval commentators noticed that Joshua's shorter birth name, Hosea, appears in the first few verses of Aleinu in reverse acrostic: ע – עלינו, ש – שלא שם, ו – ואנחנו כורעים, ה – הוא אלוקינו. The Teshuvot HaGeonim, a [[Geonic]] responsum, discussed that Joshua composed the Aleinu because although the Israelites had made Aliyah to the [[Promised Land]], they were surrounded by other peoples, and he wanted the Jews to draw a clear distinction between themselves, who knew and accepted the sovereignty of God, and those nations of the world which did not.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://anshesholomnewrochelle.org/sermons/the-origins-of-aleinu |title=The Origins of Aleinu – Anshe Sholom |access-date=2021-01-30 |archive-date=2021-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716060637/https://anshesholomnewrochelle.org/sermons/the-origins-of-aleinu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the modern era, religious Jews still pray the Aliyah inspired Aleinu three times daily, including on the [[High Holidays]]. The Aleinu prayer begins:

{{Blockquote |It is our duty to praise the Master of all, to exalt the Creator of the Universe, who has not made us like the nations of the world and has not placed us like the families of the earth, who has not designed our destiny to be like theirs, nor our lot like that of all their multitude.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.chabad.org/library/siddur/default_cdo/aid/1495868/jewish/Online-Siddur-with-Commentary.htm#!/aid:1666780 |title=Online Siddur with Commentary |access-date=2021-01-30 |archive-date=2021-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303055257/https://www.chabad.org/library/siddur/default_cdo/aid/1495868/jewish/Online-Siddur-with-Commentary.htm#!/aid:1666780 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}