AMIDAH
MEDITATION i ©Grl¡` My God, keep my tongue from causing harm and my lips from telling lies. Let me be silent if people curse me, my soul still humble and at peace with all. Open my heart to Your teaching, and give me the will to practise it. May the plans and schemes of those who seek my harm come to nothing. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, O God, my Rock and my Redeemer. 1
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i ©Grl¡` Elohai n’tsor l’shoni meira, v’siftotai middabbeir mirmah, v’limkal’lai nafshi tiddom, v’nafshi ke’afar la–kol tihyeh. P’tach libbi b’toratecha, v’acharei mitsvotecha tirdof nafshi, v’chol ha–kamim alai l’ra’ah, m’heirah hafeir atsatam, v’kalkeil machsh’votam. Yihyu l’ratson imrei fi, v’hegyon libbi l’fanecha, Adonai tsuri v’go’ali.
While reciting Oseh shalom it is customary to take three steps backwards, to bow to the left at the words oseh shalom bimromav , to the right at hu ya’aseh shalom and to the centre at aleinu .
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d ¤8rr May the Maker of peace in the highest bring this peace upon us and upon all Israel and upon all the world. Amen.
d ¤8r Oseh shalom bimromav hu ya’aseh shalom aleinu v’al kol yisra’el v’al kol ha–olam, v’imru Amen.
integrity between the thoughts that lie in our hearts and the words that we say aloud. mFl ¨W d ¤5or May the maker of peace ... Oseh shalom is a rabbinic prayer based on a phrase from Job 25:2 seeking peace at the conclusion of a prayer. It is also found at the end of the Kaddish . Various progressive liturgies have made its conclusion more universalistic by adding phrases like ‘and upon all dwellers on earth’ or ‘upon all humanity’. 1 Ps 19:15.
xFv §p i ©Dol¡` My God, keep ... This private meditation is one of a number included in the Talmud ( Berachot 16b–17a). It is attributed to Mar bar Ravina (fourth Century CE) At the end of the Amidah there is time for private thoughts and prayers, either with or without the words of this passage. It is followed by a quotation from Psalm 19:15 in the first person singular which matches the sentence from Psalm 51 with which we prepared ourselves for the Amidah . Now we hope that there is
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