עה

May it be Your will,

May it be Your will, Hashem our G‑d and G‑d of our fathers — that You help me through Your abundant mercies; and grant me merit to welcome in Torah scholars as guests within my home [hachnasas orchim talmidei chachamim]; and may I merit to receive them with great honor and to honor them with all strength and glory; until this mitzvah of welcoming Torah scholars as guests rise before You as if I had brought the continual offerings in their order [temidim kesidram]. And in the merit of this may You help me that I merit to pray my prayer before You with great concentration with all my heart and soul and with clean and upright thought for Your great Name alone in truth; and without any confusion or muddling of mind; and without any alien thoughts at all. And may You guard me and save me from bad prayers [tefillos ra'os]; and may bad prayers not confuse my holy prayer. And may You rectify and purify my prayer; and may my prayer be complete and orderly in my mouth; and may my words please the Master of all. And may my prayer rise before You to desire — on high and beyond; and may it rise and be borne to be a crown upon Your head. And may You fill all my requests for good with compassion. Listen, Hashem, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications [Psalms 86:6]. And I — may my prayer be to You, Hashem, at a time of favor; O G‑d, in Your abundant lovingkindness — answer me with the truth of Your salvation [Psalms 69:14]. May His conversation be sweet in my ears; I myself shall rejoice in Hashem [Psalms 104:34]. May sinners cease from the earth; and the wicked be no more — bless Hashem, O my soul. Halleluyah [Psalms 104:35]. Grant me merit through Your mercies; and help me and save me; that the holy faith be able to tolerate me within it and to hold me always; until I merit to be consumed and to be transformed into the essence of the holiness of the faith in truth. Full of mercy — grant me merit to complete faith in all its aspects; for we have no hope or support now except in the holy faith — as it is written: And the righteous person shall live by his faith [Habakkuk 2:4]. For You know the immense strength of the yoke of the exile of the soul — through the bodily desires that constantly strengthen. And through our many iniquities our strength has weakened and our hand has greatly faltered to stand against them; to shatter and to nullify them completely — except through the power of the holy faith that You grant us merit to enter and to be included within the faith with great inclusion; until we merit to be consumed by the faith and to be transformed into the essence of the holy faith. And may we merit to fulfill the verse: Trust in Hashem and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faith [Psalms 37:3]. Hashem — are not Your eyes toward faithfulness? [Jeremiah 5:3]. Grant me merit through Your mercies to the holy faith in completeness truly as Your good will desires. All Your commandments are faith — they pursued me with falsehood; help me [Psalms 119:86]. Hashem, hear my prayer; listen to my supplications — in Your faithfulness answer me; in Your righteousness [Psalms 143:1]. And may the verse be fulfilled: And the heavens shall praise Your wonder, Hashem — also Your faithfulness in the congregation of the holy ones [Psalms 89:6]. And it is written: And My faithfulness and My lovingkindness shall be with him; and in My Name shall his horn be exalted [Psalms 89:25]. And it is written: I shall keep My lovingkindness for him forever; and My covenant shall be faithful to him [Psalms 89:29]. And My lovingkindness I shall not remove from him; and I shall not betray My faithfulness [Psalms 89:34]. The lovingkindnesses of Hashem I shall sing forever; to generation and generation I shall make known Your faithfulness with my mouth. For I said: the world is built on lovingkindness; the heavens — You shall establish Your faithfulness in them. Hashem G‑d of Hosts — who is like You, mighty G‑d? And Your faithfulness is around You [Psalms 89:2–4, 9]. And may the verse be fulfilled in us: And I shall betroth you to Me forever; and I shall betroth you to Me in righteousness and in judgment; in lovingkindness and in mercy. And I shall betroth you to Me in faithfulness; and you shall know Hashem [Hosea 2:21–22]. Do not forsake me, Hashem my G‑d; do not be distant from me. Hasten to my help, my Lord, my salvation [Psalms 38:22–23]. Blessed is Hashem forever — Amen and Amen [Psalms 89:53].