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word by word with great, deep feeling, with faith in evil inclination will not fill me with any desire to sleep,
Your unity. As a result, may I enter into the realm of and instead my entire resolve will be only to wake up
faith as I sleep, and may my awareness be strengthened from sleep. May the evil inclination give me no desire to
tremendously by my sleep. Please have compassion on sleep and to forget You. Instead, may my entire resolve
me so that I will deposit my neshamah and ruach in Your be to remain aware of You and of the world-to-come.
hand. And help me pray with deep feeling, “Illuminate May the evil inclination give me no urge to sleep and be
my eyes … and may my thoughts not frighten me…” disconnected from You, but may my entire resolve be
(Bedtime Sh’ma). May I be saved from the evil inclination only to bind myself to You, to gaze upon the pleasantness
and from the power of delusions. Instead, while I am of Hashem and to visit His palace. May I experience no
sleeping, may I rise to the level of the world-to-come and desire to sleep and stop clinging to You. Instead, may
from there attain a constant awareness of my goal. May my entire desire be only to cling to You. Please rescue
I be among those who are called masters of accounting, me from the evil inclination, which wants to fill me with
taking a personal accounting and doing teshuvah for the the false sweetness of sleep. Help me experience true
entire day. sweetness, which is the sweetness of the Torah, prayer
and clinging to You.
Master of the universe, please give me the strength to
guard my mind and awareness in holiness throughout the Please, You Who awaken the sleepers, when I lie down
entire day. Please help me sanctify myself during the day in bed, help me know that I am in a great war and in great
and cause my thoughts to cling strongly to the world- peril, that the evil inclination of sleep is enticing me with
to-come, so that when I fall asleep my soul will rise to the aim of seizing me and casting my soul into impure
the world-to-come. As soon as I wake up, may my first places, where the unclean “husks” will pull at it so that
thought be the awareness of the world-to-come. Please it will remain among them. Master of the universe, help
have compassion on me so that when I am asleep my me know that a person’s principal yearning and desire for
mind will enter the realm of faith, and may my mind be You occurs during the night. Please have compassion on
renewed as though it is being re-created. May my mind me and help me yearn with all my might to cling to You
be especially perfected and renewed by sleep. Please help alone. Enlarge this intention until it is tremendous. Place
me so that by as a result of sleeping in a state of holiness my spirit in Your hand alone. May I meditate with all my
I will see You the entire day and I will understand the might on the world-to-come and cling to the world-to-
hints that You send me throughout the day—a faculty come. May it be my entire will that my soul will appear
that depends on holy sleep. Rescue me from the desire before You in its beauty. May my soul appear before
to sleep, which causes a person to be disconnected from You with all of its will concentrated on gazing upon the
You throughout the day so that he does not see You, pleasantness of Hashem and visiting His palace. Then my
he does not sense You, and he does not understand the nefesh, ruach and neshamah will rise straight up to You,
hints that You send him on how to serve You. and the assassins and unclean “husks” will be unable to
stop them and rule over them. Help me repeat the verse,
The main thing is that You will rescue me so that the “I place my spirit in Your hand. You have redeemed
