Partners In Prayer - Siddur

 We all experienced complete healing at Revelation. We want Moshe’s third trip, his Elul visit on Sinai, to allow us to experience the same complete healing; physical, emotional and spiritual, that we experienced before. Please grant us an Elul that will be just as that first Elul when Moshe went to receive the Second Tablets; a month of such intense love that we will be completely healed from all illness and suffering.    “May this month of Elul restore our connection to Sinai so that "ENBLR"  will be completely healed just as we were at Revelation.” By: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg

 Please bring Moshe back for a third time to replace the Shattered Tablets, and bless us with a sign that we have regained our heights. Please bless us with an Elul that is filled with possibilities to achieve the greatest heights. By: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg

 Grant us the ability to enjoy the good You give us, so that we will not stray By: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg

 We ask for inner peace undisturbed by the insecurities that led us in the past to sin. We request the gift of peace in the Children of Israel, safe from the battles between those who wanted to sin and those who did not. We ask for peace in our marriages, unlike the Golden Calf when husbands and wives split, with the men sinning and the women holding strong. We ask for peace between God and Israel, without the strains and stains of our past sins. By: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg

 “May You give us long life.” We ask that the month of Elul reconnect us to the eternal life we experienced before the Golden Calf. By: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg

 “May it be Your Will, God, our Lord, and the Lord of our forefathers, that You inaugurate this month upon us for goodness and for blessing.” We pray for Moshe’s third trip even before we receive his report of his second. We pray assuming that we will not only be forgiven, but will be granted even more as Moshe ascends Sinai for a third time. We acknowledge God, that He is our Lord. We call on the merit of our forefathers. By: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg

 “May it be Your Will, God, our Lord, and the Lord of our forefathers, that You inaugurate this month upon us for goodness and for blessing. May You give us long life - a life of peace, a life of goodness, a life of blessing, a life of sustenance, a life of physical health, a life in which there is fear of heaven and fear of sin, a life in which there is no shame nor humiliation, a life of wealth and honor, a life in which we will have love of Torah and fear of heaven, a life in which God fulfills our heartfelt requests for the good. Amen, Selah.” We stand betwixt and between: Moshe was on Sinai for his second set of Forty days, pleading for God’s forgiveness of the sin of the Golden Calf. He will be coming down on the final day of Tammuz, and hopefully, will go up yet again for a third set of forty days to receive the Second Luchot. We await his report of God’s forgiveness as we prepare for his third trip and develop strategies so that we will not fall again as we did with the Gol...

 All was destroyed during the month of Av. Creation began on Elul, and, so it will again. We recite this prayer for the New Month focusing on Creation. “God created the world in order to do good to an other (Derech Hashem 1:2:1).” Creation was an expression of absolute love, the “other” had done nothing to earn it. This is why Elul, the month of Creation is also the month of intense love between God and Israel. I recite this prayer imaging myself participating in the final Heavenly planning meetings before Creation. I am not praying as one who has already existed and experienced success and failure, but as one who has the opportunity to see the world before Creation, and request in this moment of intense love all that I could possibly need and want. I use this prayer to prepare for all my Elul prayers until the 25th of the month when Creation began. For what shall I ask? What will I need to succeed? How will I define success? What do I hope to achieve? Rabbi Simcha Weinberg