Prayers After Torah Study
Blessed are You, Adonai our God, King of the universe, who has given us the Torah of truth and has planted eternal life in our midst through the inspired teachers of Your Word. Blessed are You, Adonai, Giver of the Torah.
We give thanks before You, Adonai our God, that You have set our portion among those who sit in the House of Study.
Lord, transform us daily into the likeness of Your city, a city of loving wisdom, built of living stones, that we may be Your dwelling place on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Amen and Shalom.
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Bless Israel, America and the United Nations.
May it be so.
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(Sunday Morning)
Sovereign of the Universe, Architect of Time and Space,
We stand at the threshold of this new week, tending the Esh Tamid (Perpetual Fire) of our hearts. We bring before You the four poles of our modern world—Israel, America, Russia, and China—asking that the Blood Dispensation of hegemony and the coldness of anarchy be dissolved by the Living Waters of Your wisdom.
For Israel: May the Lion of Judah lead with the surplus twenty percent, transforming the necessity of defense into the restoration of the region. Grant her the wisdom to be the Altar of Peace where the nations see the Light of the Menorah and not the Fire of Conquest.
For America, Russia, and China: Soften the rigidity of power. Replace the desire for hegemony with the humility of the commoner who seeks only to repair the vessel. Open the channels of Constructive Dialogue, that these great powers may find the Middle Path of a Multipolar World Federation—a system of integration where no one nation eclipses the other, but each excels in complementary cultural ways.
For the Global Soul: Ground our leaders in the Seven Laws of Noah, establishing courts of true justice and paths of non-violence. Infuse our World Constitution with the Love of God and the Love of Neighbor, that our political structures may be animated by the transcendent realization that we are all members of one human family.
May the Sanctuary of Data become a House of Prayer for All Nations and may the Dry Trees of our current conflicts bloom into the Peaceable Kingdom promised of old.
Amen and Shalom.