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He sweetens all judgments. inclination to sleep. You have given that inclination the may the small amount of sleep that I engage in be very
power to vanquish me, because You want me to be in holy.
A Prayer to Rise at Midnight touch with You and pray to You every day. My craving
for sleep is a daily test. There are tremendous profits to Please have compassion on me and help me know
from the holy book, Likutei Tefillot 88 be gained by doing the work of the will, whereas there that sleep is one-sixtieth part of death—may the
are tremendous deficits caused by sleeping a great deal. Compassionate One have mercy—the death that comes
“At midnight, I will rise to thank You for Your righteous The quality of a person’s sleep determines the nature from the pollution of the serpent, which corresponds
judgments” (Psalms 119:62). of his entire day and his entire life. Help me know that to servitude and falsehood, from which come all of the
everything depends on my prayer and readiness. Help palaces of delusion, which exchange evil for good and
You Who are filled with compassion, You Who awaken me understand that You want me to set aside time to good for evil. Please rescue me so that I will not fall
those who are asleep, You Who arouse those who are pray every day. Please help me pray every day to be into a polluted sleep, because then the danger exists
slumbering, have pity and compassion on me. In Your someone who is “meritorious.” May I attain all good of exchanging evil for good and good for evil, heaven
vast compassion, help me get up exactly at midnight, things in sleep. Rescue me from being someone who “is forbid. Please help me attain holy sleep, and rescue my
every night of my life. May I wake up at midnight filled not meritorious.” soul from the palaces of delusion. Help me distinguish
with energy, without any lethargy and sluggishness between falsehood and truth even now, in the midst of
whatsoever. May I not be overcome by sleep and slumber, Master of the universe, please have compassion on the exile and darkness. Please have compassion on me
heaven forbid. May nothing prevent me from achieving me and help me clearly know that the only advice to so that I will know and realize that everything depends
this. In Your vast compassion and great kindness, awaken conquer this evil inclination and nullify it entirely is on holy sleep. Please help me know that the essence of
the northern wind to blow on David’s harp at midnight. to engage in the work of the will. Help me know that my experiencing holy sleep depends on my completely
And may that inspire me to always wake up from my everything depends on nullifying the craving for sleep. guarding my awareness and faith. Please have compassion 16
sleep at exactly midnight. “Awaken, my soul, awaken, May I know that I have no power to nullify it, but I can on me and give me complete faith. Graciously grant me
lyre and harp, I will awake the dawn” (Psalms 57:9). only do so with the help of Your power, only with the wisdom, understanding and knowledge, and guard my
power of prayer. Please have compassion on me so that knowledge always.
Master of the universe, You have exhorted us I will not enter into this difficult war with the attitude of
repeatedly to get up exactly at midnight, such as the “my power and the strength of my hands.” May I always Rescue me so that I will never have the desire to sleep,
awesome warnings that appear in the holy Zohar. But ask for Your help. May I know that my nature pulls me because the desire to sleep is absolute heresy. It is the
You know that many obstacles overcome every one of us to sleep and that only prayer changes nature. Master of desire to cast off the entire yoke of the kingdom of
and distract us from doing so. As a result, we have wasted the universe, please help me, because without You there heaven, may the Compassionate One have mercy, and
most of our nights, failing to rise at midnight. Therefore, is no one to help me and save me. Have compassion on to forget Hashem. The will to sleep is darkness. It is
I come to You, Master of all, You Who are vast to save, me, so that I will pray to You at least half an hour a day, the death of the heart and the exile of the mind. It is
asking You to give me counsel on how to achieve this, asking You to nullify this most difficult of evil inclinations, the most evil intention, worse than any other. Help me
on how to get up every night at exactly midnight—which the inclination for sleep, to nullify the craving for sleep. never forget You. Have compassion on me so that I will
is precisely six hours after the beginning of the night, Master of the universe, completely eradicate my entire never in my life want to sleep. Rescue me from sleeping
whether in winter or summer. May I wake up at that craving for sleep (repeat this request many times) so that a great deal. Awaken me from sleep, both physical and
time with great alacrity and recite the Tikun Chatzot, I will never in my life want to go to sleep. Please have spiritual.
mourning and lamenting the destruction of the Temple
compassion on me so that I will have a strong resolve to