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["Jason Hare" <jaihare AT gmail.com>]

Thanks to everyone who responded on this question. Of course, I
understood that the suffix was objective, but what I was overlooking
was the possibility that the article was functioning as a relative
pronoun. Thanks so much for pointing that out. I think about that form
all the time when I say these prayers. I think that this form has
partly distracted me from the fact that immediately after it is
written הגואלנו HGW)LNW (ha-go'alénu), "who redeems us." It carries
the same article, yet the form never raised an eyebrow in my mind,
because I was already caught by the first one.

Thanks for helping out, everyone. One more question cleared up.

Yours,
Jason Hare
Rehovot, Israel