HaShem, our G-d and G-d of our forefather Noah, G-d of Shem.

Give me the power to praise You joyously with songs and hymns. me sing melodies my days, in a sweet, pleasant voice, the way You love.

And help me to study Your holy Torah for its own sake constantly, day and night. When You gave Your holy Torah to Your servant Moses, You studied the Written Torah with him by day and the Oral Torah by night. So, too, help me to study and think about Your holy Torah constantly, and help me to study the Written Torah and the Oral Torah day and night.
Master of the World, lovingly help me and give me the strength to win the battle against sleep. Let me banish sleep from my eyes in order to study Torah each night and learn the sixty tractates of the Mishnah together with the Holy Gemara - to learn, teach, observe, do and fulfil and practice them for their own sake. "Arise, exult in the night at the start of the watches!" Through this, let a thread of loving kindness be drawn down upon me. "By day HaShem will command His loving kindness to be revealed, and in the night His song is with me, a prayer to the G-d of my life."

And in this way, help me and protect me from the bad effects caused by hearing degenerate music - the songs and melodies Of fallen souls, "birds caught in the snare." Don't let them hann me or distract me from my spiritual devotions. Give me the power to elevate and refine them, to lift them up and restore them to the realm of the holy, and raise up the fallen Tabernacle of David.

In Your abundant love, arouse the Lily of Sharon - the Shekhinah - to sing in a voice Of pleasantness, joy and exultation. And You alone, HaShem, speedily rule over all Your works, so as to fulfil the verse: "Make music for G-d, make music, make music for our King, make music.

For G-d is King over all the earth. Make music, enlightened one!"

Remember Your people Israel, who are scattered among the nations, and Your Holy Temple, which is destroyed and uninhabited. "The bird too has found a house, and the sparrow has found a nest for herself to put her fledglings on Your altar, HaShem of Legions, my King and my G-d." Restore the priests to their service, and the Levites to their platform and their songs and hymns, and restore Israel to their dwelling place.

Grant me holy wisdom and enlightenment so that I will be able to draw the yoke of Your kingship upon myself constantly and reveal Your kingship and sovereignty to the world. Speedily establish the throne of David. Quickly, easily and speedily bring us Mashiach the son of David, the sweet singer of Israel.

"Then our mouths will be filled with laughter and our tongues with joy." We will then sing, praise and rejoice before You all our days, and the verse will be fulfilled: "HaShem will come to save us, and we will sing our songs all the days of our lives for the House of HaShem." Speedily in our days. Amen.

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