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every sort of confusion from my brain and mind until, cling to You and experience holy sleep. May I serve You He maintains the entire world.
as a result of diminishing my sleep, I will rest my mind. while I am asleep and learn Torah while I am asleep, and
May my mind and soul be renewed and refreshed from cling to the world-to-come. He is called righteous.
their weariness as a result of reducing my sleep as much He is rescued from troubles, fires and robbery.
as possible. (Likutei Tefillot 35) Help me, assist me to draw great holiness onto myself
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
Master of the universe, help me know that sleep is holiness and purity. May my sleep be sweet. As a result taste of death.
absolute evil, an entirely evil inclination. Rescue me from of my sleep, raise my soul to cling to the world-to-come,
the evil inclination, which is the terrible angel of death and may my thoughts constantly cling to the world-to- His children will not die in his lifetime.
that overwhelms me with the craving for sleep, and that come.
wants to murder me and destroy my entire life. It has His prayer bears fruit, and those fruits in turn bear more fruit.
already seized me with a powerful grip. Thus, the sages Likutei Tefillot 54 Everything that he requests of Hashem will be fulfilled and he is
speak of sleep “seizing” a person. It wants to seize hours certain to be saved.
from each day of my life, hours that will add up to years. Help me continuously renew my mind, awareness and
And it wants me to remain spiritually asleep throughout soul. Constantly guide me and teach me how to conduct He is called a servant of Hashem.
myself in regard to sleep, so that I will always renew my
the entire day, so that I will lose my life entirely. I have
slept so much until now. Have compassion on me so that mind. You know that we must guard our sleep a great His soul is linked to the world-to-come.
from this day forward I will no longer sleep away my deal in order to renew our mind and awareness, so that
days and years. Help me know that sleep is suicide. 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.
Please, Master of the universe, help me know that sleep, heaven forbid. It destroys a person’s time, which He is inspired to do teshuvah without requiring the spur of
the essence of sleep is slavery. As our sages state, “Ten is more precious than all wealth. If an hour is lost in sleep suffering.
measures of sleep descended to the world, of which nine or in the meaningless things of this world, heaven forbid,
were taken by slaves” (Kiddushin 49b). When a person sleeps, it cannot be replaced by anything in the world. Nothing He always remembers his purpose.
his mind abandons him, leaving behind his physical body, is as lost as the loss of time. “And I am a boor and I do
which corresponds to sleep. Please have compassion on not know at all” (Psalms 73:22) how to conduct myself in Secrets of the Torah are revealed to him.
me so that I will nullify my physicality and all of the the area of sleep. He shines like the stars forever.
cravings of my body, and instead I will make use of my Therefore, I turn to You with my words and I deliver
intellect, living as spiritual a life as possible, nullifying my He arouses the good within himself.
physicality and rising to the spiritual. myself into Your hands alone. “I place my spirit in Your
hand. You have redeemed me, Hashem, God of truth” He is rescued from haughtiness and the evil eye.
Help me know that the essence of the power of sleep is (Psalms 31:7). Guard my going out and my coming in. Be
due to an insufficiently clarified imagination. Please have with me always, and guide me with Your truth. Teach Even when he sleeps during the day, his soul rises to the bond of
compassion on me and help me clarify my imagination me at every moment how to act in regard to sleep, how life.
properly. In this way, may I not need to sleep much, and 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