The needs of Your people Israel are many, but their knowledge is small. May it be Your will, our God and God of our ancestors, to give to every creature what it needs and to every body what it lacks. Blessed is God, for You heard the voice of my supplication. Blessed are You God, who hears prayer. Yerushalmi May it be Your will, O Lord, that none foster hatred against us in their heart, and that we foster no hatred in our hearts against any others; that none foster envy of us in their heart, and that we foster no envy in our hearts of any. Talmud Your eternal providence has appointed me to watch over the life and health of Your creatures. May the love for my art actuate me at all times; may neither avarice nor miserliness, nor the thirst for glory or for a great reputation engage my mind, for the enemies of truth and philanthropy could easily deceive me and make me forgetful of my lofty aim of doing good to Your children. May I never see in a patient anything but a fellow creature in pain. Grant me strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain, for knowledge is immense and the human spirit can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements. Today we can discover our errors of yesterday and tomorrow we may obtain new light on what we think ourselves sure of today. O God, You have appointed me to watch over the life and death of Your creatures. Here I am, ready for my vocation. Attributed to Maimonides (The Medical Oath) My Lord and God, I do not desire Your paradise; I do not desire the bliss of the world to come; I desire only You Yourself. Shneur Zalman of Ladi When I travel in my coach to teach Torah, give me thought for the mare that carries me, and guard her from my impatience; when I walk through Your woods, may my right foot and my left foot be harmless to the little creatures that move in the grasses; as it is said by the mouth of Your prophet, They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain. Amen. Moshe Hakotun You were my death; You I could hold when all fell away from me. Paul Celan
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