My God! the soul which You bestowed in me is pure; You created it, You formed it, You breathed it into me and You preserve it within me. You will eventually take it from me, and restore it in me in the time to come.⁵ So long as the soul is within me I give thanks to You, Adonoy my God,⁶ and God of my fathers, Lord of all creatures, Master of all souls. Blessed are You, Adonoy, Who restores souls to dead bodies.⁷

footnotes: ⁵ This statement refers to the time when the dead will be resurrected. ⁶ Thus it is said, “I will praise Adonoy with my life, I will sing to my God with my being” (Psalms 146:2). ⁷ This is a reference to God’s restoring of the soul each morning following its departure while the person sleeps.