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O Lord, despite our faults and our shortsightedness, accept us in Thy mercy in that we would try to overcome our limitations. | |
Our sins are sins of omission, not of commission. We have failed to do good rather than wrought evil. We have been lazy where we should have been energetic; skeptical where our lives have cried for faith; petty where we should have been magnanimous; too complacent, satisfied with ourselves as we are. | |
Prod us, O Lord, prick us with the goad of discontent, until we realize how we have fallen short. | |
Teach us, O Lord, to appreciate the grandeur and majesty of our hallowed religion, and yet to know its humanity. | |
Ennoble us so that we may experience the meaning of the Sabbath, a day of peace, of prayer, a day of spiritual and physical regeneration. It is a day of joy, deep human joy. | |
May we learn to set aside a portion of our lives to Thee, to lift ourselves from our own spheres into Thine, to attain to Ḳ’dusha, to holiness. Then indeed will we attain to the merit of the delight of the Sabbath, and grow in wisdom, in helpfulness, in kindness and in love. |
“Apologia on the Sabbath” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 31, from where this prayer was transcribed.
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