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Master of the universe, give me complete faith. Help 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
me understand that You are all-powerful, that nothing result of my evil deeds. Restore them to me with calm, only life is clinging to You. “You who cling to Hashem
can frustrate anything You plan, and that in the brief with quiet and with surety. Hashem my God, may I wake your God are alive, all of you today” (Deuteronomy 4:4).
amount of time that I am sleeping You can renew all up precisely at midnight to get up like a soldier on his Help me cling to You absolutely. Have compassion on
my powers, mind and faith, and give me everything I watch and pray to You, Hashem my God, and learn me and help me conquer this evil inclination. If You do
need to maintain the health of my body and soul. Have Your Torah, because You are Hashem my God. Help me not help me, it will vanquish me, as it has already done
compassion on me so that sleeping less will not harm and strengthen me with the mitzvah of arising every night to this day, in consequence of which I have slept away
either my body or my soul. Help me know that only You exactly at midnight. You Who hear the prayer of Your my life and lost my life. You must help me, because it is
give health, life, renewal and faith. Have compassion on nation of Israel with compassion, may this not cause me Your entire will that I live and not die, that I cling to You
me and in the short amount of time that I am asleep give to experience any headache, suffering or harm. Blessed is throughout the day.
me everything I need for the health of my body and soul, the One Who hears prayer. “Awaken, my soul, awaken,
and renew my mind and faith. 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
Master of the universe, help me so that I will not Jacob” (Deuteronomy 33:4). for even one minute, and as a result I will never be tired.
be taken aback at the idea of serving You with sleep, Master of the universe, help me know that weariness is
thinking that doing so is a waste of time, heaven forbid. from the siddur Tehillat Hashem not natural but a type of suffering. Give me the strength
On the contrary, everything depends on this. It is even to do teshuvah for the suffering of weariness, because
worthwhile investing two hours in serving You and Many thanks for waking me up to engage in the service there is no suffering without sin. And the sin that causes
engaging in battle every night in order to attain holy of holy sleep, and many thanks for everything. I thank weariness is forgetting You, not clinging to You and not
sleep and, afterwards, a day of clinging to You, filled 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
with holy awareness. Help me not be afraid to chase are the King Who desires life. Please rescue me from to be weary is my desire to sleep. There is no greater
sleep away from my eyes for even an entire hour before the worst evil inclination, which is the evil inclination for and graver sin than that of wanting to sleep. Please help
I go to sleep—and, how much more, a few minutes— sleep. Give me true life. Help me stand firm in the war of me thank You for my suffering from weariness. Help me
during which time I stand and prepare myself well and life until I gain victory. I will not die but I will live. I will do teshuvah and confess having forgotten You. Help me
properly to attain holy sleep. And by gaining strength in tell the deeds of God, and before You I will live a long request Your forgiveness and express my regret and pray
the final minutes of the day, may I rectify the entire day. 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
Master of the universe, help me wake up filled with filled with the fear of heaven and the fear of sin, a life Master of the universe, give me the power to overcome
holy will. The entire day, may I be filled with holy without shame and disgrace, a life of wealth and honor, the evil inclination that wants to fill me with the desire to
intentions and yearning, all of which depend on my a life in which I will possess the love of Torah and fear of sleep, arguing: “You are tired….” May I allow no entry
service of Hashem that is associated with sleep. Please heaven, a life in which Hashem will fulfill the requests of to heresy, the thought that the solution to being tired
have compassion on me and deliver me from the desire my heart for the good. Amen. Selah. is to sleep. That is called running away from suffering.
to sleep, a desire that results in an entire day filled with Please help me know that if, heaven forbid, I fall prey
a craving for oblivion, as I feel tired and cold, lacking May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my to craving for sleep as a solution to being tired, I will
fervor and yearning, an entire day in which evil urges heart be pleasing before You, Hashem, my Rock and my experience an evil sleep and wake up exhausted. Please
overwhelm me. When a person’s holy will is weak, his evil Redeemer. have compassion on me and give me the strength to battle