Yah, our God,
You are our parents God,
You are open to hear our pleading prayer
with compassion.
You give a caring ear
to what Your people Israel is crying for.
This is our prayer to You,
please grant it.

Open our hearts,
focus our thoughts,
help that our prayers
may flow freely from our lips
and incline Your ear to hear
how we, Your servants
are seeking Your favor,
crying in a pleading voice
and with a shattered spirit.

You, kind compassionate One
God of infinite mercy!
Please forgive us, pardon us
and atone
for us and for Your entire people,
the house of Israel,
so that what ever we have failed
to do right
or what we have done wrong
or when we acted in ways
that are wicked
and rebelled against You.
be forgiven, pardoned and atoned
for us and for Your entire people,
the house of Israel,

How well You know,
and it is apparent to You
that it was not with malice or willfulness
that we transgressed what You teach us,
what You command us
in Your Torah and Commandments.

In our bellies
there burns a fire without ceasing,
a Yetzer Hara’, the drive of selfishness
which draws us
to the vices of this world
and its follies.
The Yetzer confuses our awareness,
even when we stand before You
seeking to pray and plead for our lives.
The Yetzer’s incitement
constantly confuses our thoughts
with all sorts of thoughts and schemes.
We cannot resist it;
for our awareness is uncertain
our mind unsteady
the troubles and preoccupations
of making a living
under times of oppression
bear down heavily on us.

Therefore, You ,
who are compassionate and kind
fulfill for us what You promised
to Moses, Your faithful servant;
When You said,
“I will favor whomever I will favor
and I will be compassionate
on whomever I will be compassionate.”
And this You had our sages tell us
This applies even to those
who are not worthy
for this is Your way;
to be kind both to those who are bad
and those who are good.

It must be obvious to You
how we are troubled
how hard our life is
and what we must bear —
it is so difficult for us
to come near to You
and to serve You well,
to have our feelings be sincerely
in harmony with Your will.
Dear Father in heaven!
What pain we feel in our souls!
Please arouse Your mercy and kindness
freely and abundantly
and banish, erase
our attraction to evil.
Let not our evil Yetzer
be active in our innards.
Let him not seduce us
let him not deflect us from serving You

May no evil schemes arise in our heart
when we are asleep or awake
especially at that time
when we stand in prayer before You
or are at times
when we study Your holy Torah
or at times when we are busy
fulfilling Your Commandments.
Then let our thoughts be pure and clear,
our own awareness steady and strong,
sincere and heartfelt
as You would have us be.

Awaken in our hearts
and in the hearts of all of Israel,
Your people,
the aim to unify You
in all truth, in all love,
so to serve
as to be pleasing to You.

Fasten in us
such a steadfast faith in You,
To be so deeply anchored
in our hearts as
not to vacillate from it.

Remove from us all the barriers
that separate us from You,
Our father in heaven.
Save us from stumbling in our path,
Keep us from going astray.

Don’t forsake us,
don’t abandon us,
keep us from disgracing
You before the world.

Be present to us
in the words of our prayer
May the work of our hands
and the thoughts of our hearts
serve You
as we think of You

Please, our Father in heaven
In Your abundant kindness
Grant us the boon
that our thoughts
and words and actions,
all our motives and our feelings
those we are aware of
and those near not aware of
those that are manifest
and those that are hidden
with all of them together
be unified in sincerity and truth
without any self deception.

Purify our hearts,
sanctify us,
sprinkle us with Thy cleansing water
to purify us,
wash us clean
with Your kindness and love.
Plant Your steadfast love,
and Your awe in our hearts
at all times
and in all places
as we go about our lives whether
we lie down or get up;
that there always be Your Holy Spirit
ardently active in our innards
that we may rely on You always,
on Your greatness,
Your love and Your awe.

May we be securely anchored
in Your written and Oral Torah
in the part of the Torah
that is open to all
and the part of Torah that is hidden.
In doing the mitzvoth
may we unify Your awesome Name.
Protect us from hypocrisy,
from pride, anger, and vindictiveness
from depression, from tale bearing
and other vices.
Protect us from everything
that might damage
the holiness and purity
of our service to You, whom we love.

Pour out thy Holy Spirit over us
that we may stay close to You,
that our longing for You may
grow and increase.
Raise us up from rung to rung
that we might come close to the rung of
our holy forebears
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

We know
You will always receive our prayer;
You will always answer us
when we pray for anyone,
be it a single person
or the whole people Israel.
May You take joy in us
May Your glory be reflected in us.

May our prayers bear fruit
and be fulfilled, above and below.
Help us to attend to our flaws,
especially the sins of our youth
as King David, peace be upon him, said
“my youthful sins and my rebellions
do not keep in Your memory.”^[1] Psalms 25:7 
Please, enable us to turn from our sins
and rebellions.
Let there flow to us
from the realm of repentance
the challenging call
to return to You wholeheartedly
and to repair all that we have damaged
of Your pure and holy Name.

Yah, rescue us from envy.
Let not jealousy
of any person arise in our hearts
and let not others be vindictive to us,
on the contrary, place into our hearts
appreciation for the goodness
of our fellow beings.
Let us not seek to find fault with them.
May we speak to each person
with civility and gentleness.
Let not hatred arise from one to another.
Strengthen us
that we might love You more
for You know well how our intention is
that it all should bring You
pleasure and joy,
for this is the root of our intention
despite the fact
that we don’t have a strong enough mind
to keep the aim of the kavvanah
of our heart,
focused on You.

Enlighten us so that we might learn
to fully know Your good purpose.
This is what we plead to
You, all merciful God.
Please accept our prayer
in compassion and good will.
Amen, let this be so willed by You.