??????????? ???????? ?????????? – Bring us back, our father, to your Torah
The Avudraham asks, why is the word, ???????? (our father) used here when asking for Torah?
The Midrash in Shmos Rabba says (on the passuk) “???? ???-???, ???: ?????, ???? ????” (The Torah that Moshe commanded us is the heritage of the Congregation of Yaakov, passuk in V’zos HaBracha) don’t read it ?????, heritage, rather ?????, an inheritance.
One inherits from their father. HaKadosh Baruch Hu is considered a father to Klal Yisroel ???? ???, ??’ ??????. Therefore we call Hashem ????????, our father. The other nations, however, do not have this level of closeness to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, just slaves to a master. Therefore it says ???? ???-???, ???: ?????/?????, to whom, to ???? ???? and to nobody else.
So, back to our original question, why use the word ????????, when asking to be returned to Torah?
The answer is given through a Mashal. The son of a king leaves the kingdom of his father. When he hears that his father is dying, he returns to receive his inheritance. He isn’t embarrassed to ask for it, after all, he is a son of the king.
Likewise, by saying ??????????? ???????? ??????????, with the addition of the word ????????, we ask Hashem that all those who have left the Derech HaYashar return to Torah without any embarrassment in their returning. After all, Hashem is King, we are his children, and the Torah is our ?????.