Go Beyond

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Emuna Daily

“We all have limitations — after all, are we not of flesh and blood? There comes a time, however, when you have to break out beyond those limits.  You’ve got to do more than you can possibly do. The truth is, you not only have an animal soul, but a G-dly soul as well — and G-dliness knows no limits.”  ~ R’ Tzvi Freeman

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Personal Prayers on Yom Kippur

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Emuna Daily

The following was compiled by Rabbi Sinai Yakobian.  I highly recommend that you print this out and bring it to shul with you to glance at and have in mind while you daven on Yom Kippur.  By the way, for those of you wondering, even though it is normally forbidden to ask for personal needs on Shabbos, if Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur fall out on Shabbos as it does this year, doing so is permitted. The reason is because it is the Day of Judgment, and if one will not ask for personal needs now, he will not have another opportunity to do so.  “Im lo achshav aimatay.”

This list is meant to help you keep focused on what to pray for, however it is meant to open up your heart, not to just copy what’s written, but to be an eye opener. We have split it up into different prayers, however you can split it up however you would like.

These prayers should be said after the second יהיו לרצון אמרי פי before taking 3 steps back. When you finish your prayers, say the passuk of יהיו לרצון again.

Arvit

Prayer for health

  1. Staying healthy

  2. I should be saved from sicknesses

  3. I should be saved from bad occurrences

  4. My parents and grandparents and all family and siblings should all be healthy and stay healthy

  5. I should lose weight/gain weight (where applicable).

  6. I should be careful to take all my medicines during the year

  7. I should watch what I eat

Prayer for growth in Torah

  1. Please help me that the Torah should be sweet and enjoyable

  2. Help me to want to learn

  3. Help me to want to keep the Torah

  4. Please help me to love every word of the Torah

  5. Please help me to understand it and remember what I learn and not to feel lost

  6. Please help me to have good friends who will inspire me and affect me for the good

  7. Please help me to have good chavrutot during the year

  8. Please help me to have a good shiur and to understand the shiur and not to give up on understanding it

  9. Please help me to learn all the halachot that I need to know

  10. During the summers or when I am on vacation, please help me to be around kosher surroundings and not to be affected for the bad

Shacharit

Prayer for healthy eyes

  1. Please help me not to fall into bad things

  2. Please help me not to fall into bad pictures/internet

  3. Help me overcome my yetzer harah and wrong temptations

  4. Help me watch my eyes when I walk in the street

  5. Please help me from past girl friends

  6. Help me at nights when I am going to sleep to sleep comfortably without bad thoughts

  7. Help me to find at the right time a good wife that i should build a bayit neeman with her

  8. Help me to have good children

Mornings

  1. Please help me to get up in the morning on time

  2. Please help me to go to sleep at night on time

  3. Please help me to get out of the bed

  4. Please help me to be nice in the mornings and not to be grouchy and mean

  5. Please help me to be happy and joyous and look forward to my day

  6. Please help me to always have a positive attitude on every day and life

Mussaf

Middot and proper infuences

  1. Please protect me during the year and especially the summer from all wrong influences

  2. Please help me to be in a surrounding of good friends

  3. Help me to be able to keep connection to Torah and Judaisim even when i am back home

  4. Please help my nights to be easy and healthy

  5. Please help me to have good midot

  6. please help me not to get angry and to know that all is from you out of you’re unfathomable love and all is for my best

  7. please help me to be patient  when people speak to me

  8. please help me not to speak or hear loshon hara

  9. please help me to enjoy helping and to be excited over chesed

  10. please help me not to be lazy rather active and happy

Prayer for the entire Jewish people

  1. Please Hashem help that there should be peace in the world

  2. Please help that there should be no wars in any countries, and specifically for the Jews

  3. Please let us find favor in the eyes of the people and rulers of any country we live in

  4. Please help that there should be peace in the land of Israel and our enemies should not be able to harm us in any way

  5. Please send a refuah shelema for all the Jews in the world

  6. Please help that there should be no nuclear, chemical, or any bad occurrences in the world

  7. Please help us to see the coming of Mashiach very soon

  8. Please help all those who need to get marry to find their match

  9. Please help all the ones who don’t have children to merit children very soon

  10. Please bring yeshuvot to everyone who needs one

  11. Please bring long life and happiness to all of Am Yisrael

Mincha

Prayer for Chochma (wisdom)

  1. I should be able to focus during my studies

  2. I should have understanding in what I learn

  3. I should be able to remember and have a good memory

  4. I should be smart in Torah

  5. I should be able to understand other people and how to help them

  6. I should be able to understand myself and how to help myself

  7. I should be able to know what decision to make in big or small things in life

  8. I should be able to know how to deal with the plusses and minuses of everyone around me

Prayer for Parnassah

  1. Please help my father and mother and whole family to have a good year of parnassah

  2. We should not have any problems with other people

  3. Please help our business be successful

  4. We should not have an ayin harah on our parnassah

  5. Help me in the future to have a good job

  6. Help me to have a job that is spiritually healthy for me and it should be a kosher job

  7. Help me to know how to deal with people in the business

  8. Help me to give my maser and tzedaka

  9. If it is meant for me to lose any money during the year, please help me give that money to good organizations and not to go for bad things (eg. Medical and other side expenses)

Neila

Utilize for your own heartfelt prayer, or some people like to ask for everything all over again.

May all our prayers be answered. Amen.

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New Trial

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Emuna Daily

“No civil court of law would change its verdict and, after finishing the trial, decide to give a convicted criminal another chance! Imagine hearing, “You’re convicted, but we’re giving you another ten days to repair the damage you’ve done. At the end of those ten days, you’ll have a new trial. Good luck!”  What a golden opportunity!   

But that’s exactly what happens on Yom Kippur. Hashem judges us on Rosh Hashana, ~passes a verdict, and then gives us another opportunity, a new trial, ten days later!” – R” Shalom Arush

G’mar Chasima Tovah!

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Convert Sins into Merits

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Emuna Daily

“When I see a man of many sins, I think, ‘How I envy him!  When he will do teshuvah and convert his sins, he will have many more merits than I do!” ~ R’ Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev zt”l

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Fate

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Emuna Daily

Az es bashert ainem dertrunken tsu verren, vert er dertrunken in a leffel vasser. –

If one is fated to drown, he will drown in a spoonful of water.

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Talk to Hashem

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Emuna Daily

Personal prayer is not greater than the set prayers each day – but, the yetzer hora knows about those and works harder to disturb them. ~ Rav Menachem Azolai as translated by Dov Elias

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Dig Deeper

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Emuna Daily

Every person you meet has a wellspring deep inside.

If you can’t find it, your own wellspring needs clearing.
Remove the rust from your shovel, sharpen its blade, and dig harder and deeper. ~ R’ Tzvi Freeman

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Nuts on Rosh Hashanah

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Emuna Daily

The Kotzker Rebbe said “people don’t eat nuts on Rosh Hashanah because Chate (sin) is the gematria of Egoz (nuts). But people forget that Chate is also the gematria of Chate”

May you and your families and gans Klal Yisrael have a gut gebentsh yor, a shana tov u’metuka and ksiva v’chasima tova!   Daven Shtark and let’s crown our King!

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Hashem, Fulfill Our Requests for the Good

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Emuna Daily

Rabbi Avraham Pam related the following:

There was a Jew who, in spite of having lived his entire life in dire poverty, remained steadfast in his faith, and prayed with intense concentration.  Someone once overheard this man reciting the morning blessing, “Blessed are You… Who has provided me my every need,” with great joy.

Asked the passerby, “Can you really say that your every need has been provided for? You are among the poorest of the poor!”

The man replied, “Can one really know, on his own, what his particular needs are? If God has made me poor, then obviously this condition is necessary for me to fulfill my purpose in life. Poverty is what my soul needs, and I have been granted this in full measure!”

We ask for “a life in which God fulfills our requests for the good,” in the special blessing in advance of every new month. It would seem that the phrase “for the good” is superfluous; certainly a person would not request that which is bad for him! This, explained R’ Pam, is precisely the point.  We can never be sure that what we desire is ultimately to our benefit; this is known only to Hashem, Who “keeps watch and sees to the end of all generations” (Mussaf of Rosh Hashanah). We therefore ask that our requests be fulfilled, but only in a manner that will truly be for our good.

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Measure for Measure

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Emuna Daily

The way in which one acts towards others determines the way in which Heaven will act towards him. For example, if one strives to overlook the hurt caused him, and if he acts towards others with kindness and compassion, then he awakens the Attribute of Compassion in Heaven.  Hashem will judge him with mercy and he will be shown kindness from Above.  As our Sages state: “Whoever has compassion towards others will be shown compassion from Above” (Shabbos 151b); and “Whoever refrains from exacting his measure [of retribution from others for the wrong they caused him] will have all his sins forgiven” (Rosh Hashanah 17a).  Moreover, in his merit, Divine compassion will manifest itself upon the Jewish nation as a whole.

However, if it is one’s way to be absolutely unrelenting towards others and to treat them without compassion, then he lends strength to the Attribute of Justice —toward himself specifically, and to the entire Jewish nation as well.  Heaven will be unrelenting regarding that person’s sins, for “With the measure that a person measures do they [i.e. Heaven] measure him” (Megillah 12b). ~ Chofetz Chaim

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