An Intention for Eating on Yom Kippur, by Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez (2022)

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כוונות kavvanot, English vernacular prayer, עינוי Innui (self-affliction), פיקוח נפש piqoaḥ nefesh, fasting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.

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יהי רצון מלפניך…	Yehi Ratson milfanekha… May it be your will, God of compassion and grace, that I can remember that every bite I eat today is my Mitsvah. God of mercy, help me remember that this food fuels my soul so that I may serve you in health for another year.
	Just as you are slow to anger, abundant in kindness and truth — let me be so with myself in the moments when I feel guilt or shame, knowing that this is my mitsvah. Allow me to be amongst those with whom you preserve kindness for a thousand generations.
	May it be your will that I eat knowing it is not a sin, and that although you are the forgiver of iniquity, willful sin, and errors — my eating will not be amongst those moments which are cleansed by repentance today. Allow me the self awareness to not slip into that space.
	I am but your servant, and need to eat so that I may dwell in your house all my days.

An Intention for Eating on Yom Kippur was written by Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez and appears in הַרְחֶב פִּֽיךָ וַאֲמַלְאֵֽהוּ Open Your Mouth Wide, and I (God) Will Fill It: Prayers and Rituals for those who need to eat on Yom Kippur (2022), p. 4.

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Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez

Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez is a Jewish educator, programmer, and community builder currently serving as the Manager of the Jewish Camp Initiative at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Clergy Advisory Chair for MACoM (Metro Atlanta Community Mikvah). She received semikhah (rabbinic ordination) from Yeshivat Maharat in 2018 and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Illinois in 2006. She has also learned intensively at Nishmat and Pardes in Jerusalem and worked for JEWISHcolorado, JCC Manhattan, Hillel International, and Global Day of Jewish Learning.

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