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cling to You and experience holy sleep. May I serve You He maintains the entire world.
while I am asleep and learn Torah while I am asleep, and
cling to the world-to-come. He is called righteous.

Help me, assist me to draw great holiness onto myself He is rescued from troubles, fires and robbery.
before I go to sleep, so that I will sleep in a state of great He attains peace and length of days, and he does not taste the
holiness and purity. May my sleep be sweet. As a result taste of death.
of my sleep, raise my soul to cling to the world-to-come,
and may my thoughts constantly cling to the world-to- His children will not die in his lifetime.
come.
His prayer bears fruit, and those fruits in turn bear more fruit.
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Everything that he requests of Hashem will be fulfilled and he is
Help me continuously renew my mind, awareness and certain to be saved.
soul. Constantly guide me and teach me how to conduct
myself in regard to sleep, so that I will always renew my He is called a servant of Hashem.
mind. You know that we must guard our sleep a great His soul is linked to the world-to-come.
deal in order to renew our mind and awareness, so that
our consciousness will not be confused, heaven forbid. He strolls with the Holy One, blessed be He, in the Garden of
And You know the tremendous loss caused by much Eden.
sleep, heaven forbid. It destroys a person’s time, which
is more precious than all wealth. If an hour is lost in sleep He is inspired to do teshuvah without requiring the spur of
or in the meaningless things of this world, heaven forbid, suffering.
it cannot be replaced by anything in the world. Nothing He always remembers his purpose.
is as lost as the loss of time. “And I am a boor and I do
not know at all” (Psalms 73:22) how to conduct myself in Secrets of the Torah are revealed to him.
the area of sleep.
He shines like the stars forever.
Therefore, I turn to You with my words and I deliver
myself into Your hands alone. “I place my spirit in Your He arouses the good within himself.
hand. You have redeemed me, Hashem, God of truth” He is rescued from haughtiness and the evil eye.
(Psalms 31:7). Guard my going out and my coming in. Be
with me always, and guide me with Your truth. Teach Even when he sleeps during the day, his soul rises to the bond of
me at every moment how to act in regard to sleep, how life.
to sleep at the proper time and only when necessary,
in accordance with Your good will. Help me be able to He will not enter Gehennom.
reduce my sleep. Sanctify me with great holiness. Expel