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.¹

footnotes: ¹ There is no degradation of women 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.

(A woman says: 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.²

footnotes: ² 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 provided me with all my needs.

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 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,³ nor into the grasp of transgression or iniquity.⁴ Do not cause us to be tested,⁵ or brought to disgrace.⁶ 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,⁷ kindness,⁸ and compassion⁹ 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.

footnotes: ³ To sin unknowingly. ⁴ To sin willfully. ⁵ We pray that God will not put us to tests that are too difficult to withstand. ⁶ Should we fail the tests, we will be disgraced. ⁷ “Favor” means receiving God’s blessings because of our merit.—Siach Yitzchok ⁸ “Kindness” is God’s benevolence bestowed purely by His will, regardless of merit.—Siach Yitzchok ⁹ “Compassion” describes God’s withholding of deserved punishment.—Siach Yitzchok

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 an evil companion, from an evil neighbor; from an evil mishap and from the destructive Satan; from a difficult judgment and a difficult opponent, whether he is a [fellow Jew] or not a [fellow Jew].