Partners In Prayer - Siddur

  I had the following Kavana (intention) when saying the blessing before "Shema" in the morning of .המחדש בטובו בכל יום מעשה בראשית (Who renews in His highest good, in every day the Creation of the world) Sages say that Hashem recreates the world every single moment, " Maase Beraisheet ", even when someone cannot see the "Tuv" (His greatest good) in His Torah, and creation. Yet at a minimum any person would be in awe seeing " Maase Braisheet " So I was thinking therefore, that I daven that people should see the renewal of creation every second through seeing Tov (Good) and come to realize how Torah helps us become more complete, and therefore makes the world complete the more we can all see His Tov in all.  By:  Julian Partouche

Sheasani Kirtzono   Who made me in His Will  I desire a relationship with Hashem, by attaching to His Ratzon (desire). I want a reciprocal relationship, a back and forth of desiring. Pokeach Ivrim   Who opens the eyes of the blind. Open my eyes to this Ratzon (desire) Help me see how this type of  relationship is available to me . Malbish Arumim (Who dresses the naked) Who protects the "Ratzon" in the Relationship  Matir Asurim (Who releasese the Bound) Release anything that is still blocking me from connection of this "Ratzon" Zokef Kifufim Raise me up so I don't lose it (my Ratzon to attach to You) Give me the self-esteem so I can keep attached to this Ratzon.  Roka Haaretz Al Hamayim This "Ratzon" IS my support. It keeps me grounded and connected.  By: Malky Rosenberg

 Hashem,  How do I walk in this world of darkness without stumbling? How do I retain who I am when there are enemies attacking, whether internal or external? How can I possibly not lose myself in the process of life when the world sometimes feels so challenging? How do I know I can actually stay alive when there is death? What happens if I have a moment that I forget myself?   How do face myself after I make mistakes as I am only human? Because You have prepared a special garment of Protection from those things I am vulnerable to. You know me every part of  me,  You understand me. And , I can celebrate this Blessing I get to make to You of providing garments to the naked. Hashem , You know me, and You know what and whom I face today.  I can only exist with the ability to wear garments You have prepared containing my light, my good I have created to ward off the enemies of me; Just as you provided the "Bigdei Ohr" Clothes of light to Adam and Eve in the...

  מוֹדֶה אֲנִי  לְפָנֶיךָ מֶלֶךְ חַי וְקַיָּם שֶהֶחֱזַרְתָּ בִּי נִשְׁמָתִי בְחֶמְלָה, רַבָּה אֱמוּנָתֶךָ I  choose to live a life in which I  am responsible  for any event that occurs, regardless of whether it is in my control. What does it mean to live a responsible life? It means living a life with the awareness that I am standing  before You  and that my actions have an impact.   Why do I choose to live responsibly? Because You are a  living and enduring King  and to truly live in an eternal way means that I live with the awareness that You are watching over me and You care about what I do in a loving way.  How do I know that You care about me and watch over me in a loving way? Because not only do You watch my growth every day, but  You  REVIEW  חזרה (You go over them one more time!)  in a compas...

  Ketores   Ketores reminds me of stoichiometry, which is a fancy word in chemistry for proportions. Let’s take H 2 O (water)—it is a proportion of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen. No matter how much water I have, whether it’s the volume of a swimming pool, or a tiny drop, it has constant molecular proportionality; every water molecule in that pool or in that tiny drop is no more and no less than two hydrogens for every one oxygen. We have proportionality in the ketores: “1) Balsam, 2) onycha, 3) & galbanum 4) frankincense – the weight of 70 maneh each. 5) myrrh, 6) cassia & 7) spikenard & 8) saffron – [each] a weight of 16, 16 maneh. 9) costus – 12 maneh 10) aromatic bark – three [maneh] 11) cinnamon – 9 (maneh) [Added also were] Lye of Carsina – 9 Kavs (a measure), Wine of Cypres – 3 Seahs and 3 kavs- and if one did not find wine of Cypres – he brings old wine. Salt of Sodom – a quarter [of a kav.]… Rabbi Yehuda said “This is the general rule – if it is ...

  ♦ Please, God, save us! Please, God, make us successful!             Psalms 118:25               As you recite the first phrase—“Please, God, save us!”—ask God to empower all of your efforts during the coming month to repair the past year and prepare you for Rosh Hashanah.             And as you recite the second phrase—“Please, God, make us successful!”—pray that you will complete the month with a powerful sense of success and enter Rosh Hashanah with joy and confidence (based on a teaching by Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein in Or Yechezkel ). By: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg

  ♦ God is with me, I have no fear; what can a man do to me?             Psalms 118:6               The “man” mentioned in this verse represents exile.             In his dream of the ladder, Jacob saw this “man” in the form of an angel that ascended the ladder and seemingly did not come back down ( Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer 35). Jacob was terrified until God assured him, “Behold, I am with you” ( Genesis 28:15).             And the prophet Obadiah quoted God as addressing this man with the words, “Even if you raise your nest like an eagle or place your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there” ( Obadiah 1:4). Rabbi Yitzchak Eizek Chaver states that the verse from Hallel, “God is with me, I have no fear; what can a man do to me?” is ...