MORNING BLESSINGS
THE GIFT OF OUR SOUL f 332 i ©Grl¡` My God, the soul You have given me is pure, for You created it, You formed it and You made it live within me. You watch over it within me, but one day You will take it from me to everlasting life. My God and God of generations before me, as long as the soul is within me, I will declare that You are the power of good deeds, the Ruler of all creatures, possessing every soul. Blessed are You God, giving new life to our bodies each day.
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i ©Grl¡` Elohai, n’shamah shennatatta bi t’horah hi. Attah v’ratah, attah y’tsartah, attah n’fachtah bi, v’attah m’shamm’rah b’kirbi, v’attah atid litt’lah mimmeni l’chayyei olam. Kol z’man sheha–n’shamah b’kirbi modeh/modah ani l’fanecha Adonai elohai veilohei avotai, she’attah hu ribbon kol ha–ma’asim, mosheil b’chol ha–b’riot, adon kol ha–n’shamot. Baruch attah Adonai, ha–machazir n’shamot la–meitim.
ends with the letter hey with a dot in it, a so–called mappik hey . This indicates that the usually silent letter is to be sounded as we breathe out. Thus we hear the breath being restored to us as we return to the tasks of a new day. A renewed soul offers us the possibility of a new beginning at every stage of our life, whatever has happened to us in the past.
d ¨n ¨W §p i ©Dol¡` My God the soul ... The text of this blessing appears in the Talmud ( Berachot 60b). The rabbis taught that sleep was one sixtieth part of death ( Berachot 57b), and that our souls are restored to us in the morning when we wake up. The act of breathing is evidence of life, and the Hebrew text actually dramatises this. In five of the opening sentences the verb
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