May it be Your will G-d, our G-d of our Fathers, who graciously grants knowledge to man, in your bountiful compassion, have mercy on me and bestow upon me wisdom, understanding and knowledge from You. Merit me to complete holy knowledge such that I will have strength through this to draw down the three types of bounty which are food, drink and clothing; they are included in the knowledge of Torah. Help me and merit me to have knowledge included in the three Patriarchs, Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya’acov. And may I merit to the Torah of chessed, learning Torah in order to teach it, instilling holy knowledge in friends and students so that I can ‘make many souls’, bringing them under the wings of the Shechinah; let me bring them really close to serving You. Bestow upon me fear of Heaven and fear of sinning. May my fear of Heaven be prior to my wisdom. Give me inspiration in my words when I speak with people to bring them close to You.
And the merit of the three Patriarchs and in the strength of the merit of Moshe and all the true tzaddikim, bestow upon me Your help and salvation. From now on merit me to guard the brit truthfully with great holiness and purity. Arouse the compassion of the true tzaddikim so that they will have mercy upon us and those who are weak like us; let them fight for us, subduing, breaking and nullifying all the persecutors and pursuers who fight us at all times. May they subdue, finish and nullify from us all the husk of Amalek who is the source of the blemish of the brit.
In Your bountiful mercy let us merit in Shabbat to reveal new, true and holy interpretations of the Torah, this being an aspect of a double portion stemming from one source. May the new interpretations give You pleasure and find favour before You. May we merit to bestow a double portion of bread (lechem mishne) on Shabbat which represents Mishne Torah (an extra copy of the Torah, as in Deuteronomy 17, 18). Grant us a double portion and let us merit to draw a double bounty, a mishne Torah on Shabbat. By the holiness of Shabbat may the bounty be drawn to all the worlds. Help us and save us so as to welcome the holy Shabbat with great happiness, with fear and love and with great holiness and purity; let us give delight in Shabbat by all sorts of pleasures. By the holiness of Shabbat may a cure of soul and body be drawn upon us and upon all of Israel. Cure us from all our pains and ailments. Let a perfect healing come to all who are afflicted (in particular to……….son/daughter of……..etc). Please, please cure us for You know our physical and spiritual pain. Heal us Lord and we will be healed, save us and we will be saved because You are our praise. Through the holiness of Shabbat, draw upon us the radiance of sublime repentance, repentance through love and may we, very soon return in complete and sincere repentance before You. Let us merit to repent out of love, as is Your good desire.
Draw grace, loving-kindness, splendour and beauty and glory to all the really pious people of the generation. Grant them grace, loving-kindness and mercy in Your eyes and in the eyes of all who see them. Heal them from all their ailments and pains. May they be honoured in the eyes of the public and by all this, may a vessel and sign be made in them to accept the Mishne Torah, the double portion of new interpretations of the Torah on Shabbat.
May we all merit to sanctify our mouths at all times with great holiness. Save us from pride and arrogance. Raise the Divine Presence from Her exile into which She descended because of the blemish of pride which comes as a result of the iniquity of speaking evil, Heaven forbid. Have mercy upon us for Your Name’s sake and help us from now on to rectify all this. Guard us and save us from now on from the very severe inquity of speaking evil and from all sorts of blemishes of speech. May we merit to sanctify our speech with every sort of holiness. By this, may we merit to receive the radiance of the holy Shabbat, in perfection, from the really wise ones of the generation.
Save us from all sorts of pride, arrogance and haughtiness and let us merit to really perfect humility. Let us merit to real life, a life of holiness, and to a complete healing in body and soul and to complete repentance stemming from love, which is drawn from the holiness of the holy Shabbat. Satisfy us from Your bounty and grant us merit to taste the holiness of Shabbat which gives life to all the worlds, as is said, “Those who taste its happiness merit to eternal life.” Grant us a long and good life, a life of fear of Heaven, a life in which we merit to turn away completely from evil, to return in really complete repentance. Let us serve You sincerely and whole-heartedly, with real humility all the days of our lives, from now on, forever, until we and our offspring merit to eternal life, to that day which is completely Shabbat and eternal tranquility.
Amen. Forever. Selah.