Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who gives the rooster understanding

to distinguish between day and night.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who did not make me a gentile.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who did not make me a slave.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who did not make me a woman.²⁸

footnotes: ²⁸ There is no degradation of woman implied in this blessing. Men thank God for the privilege which is theirs of performing all the precepts of the Torah, many of which are not incumbent upon women.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who made me according to His will.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who gives sight to the blind.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who clothes the naked.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who releases the imprisoned.²⁹

footnotes: ²⁹ He releases the prisoners of misfortune, passion, sin, hatred and jealousy.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who straightens the bent.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who spreads the earth above the waters.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who prepares the steps of man.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who provided me with all my needs.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who girds Israel with might.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who crowns Israel with glory.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who gives strength to the weary.

Blessed are You, Adonoy

our God, King of the Universe,

Who removes sleep from my eyes

and slumber from my eyelids.

And may it be Your will

Adonoy, our God

And God of our fathers,

to make us study Torah regularly,

and hold fast to Your commandments.

Do not bring us

into the grasp of sin,³⁰

footnotes: ³⁰ To sin unknowingly.

nor into the grasp of

transgression or iniquity.³¹

footnotes: ³¹ To sin willfully.

Do not cause us to be tested,³²

footnotes: ³² We pray that God will not put us to tests that are too difficult to withstand.

or brought to disgrace.³³

footnotes: ³³ Should we fail the tests, we will be disgraced.

Let us not be ruled over

by the Evil Inclination.

Keep us far from an evil person,

and from an evil companion.

Make us hold fast to the Good Inclination,

and to good deeds,

and compel our Evil Inclination

to be subservient to You.

Grant us this day and every day

favor,34 kindness,35 and compassion³⁶

footnotes: ³⁶ “Compassion” describes God’s withholding of deserved punishment.—Si’ach Yitzchok

in Your eyes

and in the eyes of all who see us,

and bestow bountiful kindness upon us,

Blessed are You, Adonoy,

Who bestows bountiful kindness

upon His people Israel.

May it be Your will,

Adonoy, my God

and God of my fathers,

to save me today and every day

from arrogant men and from arrogance;

from an evil man, from the evil inclination,

from an evil companion,

from an evil neighbor;

from an evil mishap

from an evil eye,

from a malicious tongue, from slander,

from false testimony, from hatred

from scandal, from unnatural death,

from harsh disease, and from misfortune,

and from the destructive Satan;

from a difficult judgment

and a difficult opponent,

whether he is a fellow Jew

or not a fellow Jew

and from the retribution of Gehinnom.