A Kavvanah for Waking Up, by Andrew Shaw

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Birkhot haShaḥar

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Sunrise, Wakefulness, Gratitude, Hypnogogic State, Dawn, Light, Darkness, Threshold, Compassion, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Needing Translation (into Hebrew)

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	In these still, quiet moments, I am not asleep and not yet awake.
	In the threshold of day and night, with the mixture of darkness and light, my body is once again coming to life.
	I am reborn, each day, from the womb of your compassion. May all of my actions be worthy of the faith You’ve placed in me.
	With words of thanks I’ll greet the dawn.

Thank you to Andrew Shaw for contributing this work inspired by Modah/Modeh Ani. See here for Andrew’s English translation of that prayer.

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Andrew Shaw

Andrew Shaw is a Jewish spiritual seeker. He currently lives in Raleigh, NC.

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established."–Psalms 90:17