Blessed are You, Adonoy, our God, King of the Universe, Who chose good prophets,¹⁶ and was pleased with their words¹⁷ which were spoken in truth. Blessed are You, Adonoy, Who chooses the Torah and Moshe, His servant, and Yisrael, His people, and the prophets of truth and righteousness.

footnotes: ¹⁶ The true prophet must be genuinely tov “good” and a friend to all men both in his attitude and in his conduct. The heart of a true prophet in Yisrael must be capable of genuine rejoicing when individuals and mankind flourish, and of sincere sorrow when they go into decline. The Jewish prophet stands in the service of tov of the kingdom of the absolute good whose messanger he is meant to be.—S.R. Hirsch ¹⁷ The prophet is given only the basic content of the ideals which he is to proclaim. The words in which he expresses the theme communicated to him however, are his own. According to the Sages אֵין שְׁנֵי נְבִיאִים מִתְנַבְּאִין בְּסִגְנו‍ֹן אֶחָד, each prophet has a style, peculiar to him alone, hence a prophet requires the gift of eloquence. Hashem chooses as His prophets only such men whose words are נֶאֱמָרִים בֶּאֱמֶת, spoken in truth.—S. R. Hirsch