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                Master of the universe, give me the fear of heaven.
              May I revere You. Help me so that exhaustion will not
              overcome me. May I not forget all of my Judaism when
              weariness overcomes me. Give me the power to wage
              war against the evil inclination of sleep and vanquish it.
              May I stand up and thank You for my suffering—that is
              to say, my tiredness—and request with all my might that
              You help me not want to sleep but only want to cling to
 Thank you to Hashem for the honor   You. As a result of my fear of heaven, may I gain the
              strength of a lion. Give me the strength to rise like a lion,
 of blessing us with a healthy baby boy  so that I will please You by engaging in my preparations

              to  go  to  bed  with incredible splendor,  with incredible
              goodness!
 Harry Easton Zolna
                May we attain complete fear of heaven on every level, in
 Moshe Lev    all of its parts, details and particulars…. Have compassion

 Karen and Peter Cooper   on us in Your vast compassion and in Your great, vast
              and tremendous kindness, and arouse us from our sleep.
 Rachel and Jared Zolna  For our many sins, sleep has stolen over us. For many
              days and years, the true tzaddikim have been working to
 David Cooper   17  arouse and awaken us from our sleep and slumber. With
              various approaches and methods, with many programs
 Easton Pennsylvania   and great  and tremendous efforts,  they have applied
              themselves and toiled on our behalf and concentrated His
              Divinity, may He be blessed, so that it may rest upon us.
              They have shone the face of the holy Torah onto us. On
 March 30 2018  our behalf, they have clothed the face of the holy Torah
              in a number of aspects, with Torah teachings and stories
              of the primal years, all of which we have seen in their
              holy books  and  heard  from  their holy mouths. These
              are exalted, tremendous and awesome matters that rise
              to infinity, matters that stand at the peak of the world,
              matters that are truly drawn down from You, matters
              that have the power to completely arouse and awaken
              everyone in the world, great and small, no matter how
              deeply they are sleeping. Yet we have not yet woken up,
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