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all of the uncleanness and filth that clings to them as a life, a life of death, a life of being cut off from You? The
result of my evil deeds. Restore them to me with calm, only life is clinging to You. “You who cling to Hashem
with quiet and with surety. Hashem my God, may I wake your God are alive, all of you today” (Deuteronomy 4:4).
up precisely at midnight to get up like a soldier on his Help me cling to You absolutely. Have compassion on
watch and pray to You, Hashem my God, and learn me and help me conquer this evil inclination. If You do
Your Torah, because You are Hashem my God. Help me not help me, it will vanquish me, as it has already done
and strengthen me with the mitzvah of arising every night to this day, in consequence of which I have slept away
exactly at midnight. You Who hear the prayer of Your my life and lost my life. You must help me, because it is
nation of Israel with compassion, may this not cause me Your entire will that I live and not die, that I cling to You
to experience any headache, suffering or harm. Blessed is throughout the day.
the One Who hears prayer. “Awaken, my soul, awaken,
lyre and harp, I will awake the dawn” (Psalms 57:9). “Moses Master of the universe, help me always cling to You.
taught us Torah, an inheritance for the congregation of Help me so that I will not remove my mind from You
Jacob” (Deuteronomy 33:4). for even one minute, and as a result I will never be tired.
Master of the universe, help me know that weariness is
from the siddur Tehillat Hashem not natural but a type of suffering. Give me the strength
to do teshuvah for the suffering of weariness, because
Many thanks for waking me up to engage in the service there is no suffering without sin. And the sin that causes
of holy sleep, and many thanks for everything. I thank weariness is forgetting You, not clinging to You and not
You for the past and I cry out to You for the future. You clinging to faith. The essence of my sin that causes me
are the King Who desires life. Please rescue me from to be weary is my desire to sleep. There is no greater
the worst evil inclination, which is the evil inclination for and graver sin than that of wanting to sleep. Please help
sleep. Give me true life. Help me stand firm in the war of me thank You for my suffering from weariness. Help me
life until I gain victory. I will not die but I will live. I will do teshuvah and confess having forgotten You. Help me
tell the deeds of God, and before You I will live a long request Your forgiveness and express my regret and pray
life: a life of peace, a life of goodness, a life of blessing, that I will cling to You and experience complete faith.
a life of income, a life of strengthening of bones, a life
filled with the fear of heaven and the fear of sin, a life Master of the universe, give me the power to overcome
without shame and disgrace, a life of wealth and honor, the evil inclination that wants to fill me with the desire to
a life in which I will possess the love of Torah and fear of sleep, arguing: “You are tired….” May I allow no entry
heaven, a life in which Hashem will fulfill the requests of to heresy, the thought that the solution to being tired
my heart for the good. Amen. Selah. is to sleep. That is called running away from suffering.
Please help me know that if, heaven forbid, I fall prey
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my to craving for sleep as a solution to being tired, I will
heart be pleasing before You, Hashem, my Rock and my experience an evil sleep and wake up exhausted. Please
Redeemer. have compassion on me and give me the strength to battle