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A Kavvanah for Waking Up, by Andrew Shaw

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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.

Related liturgy and liturgy-related work:

✍ מודה אני | Modah/Modeh Ani, by Moshe ibn Makhir (translation by Andrew Shaw)

✍ מודה אני | Returning the body to the soul: an adaptation of Modeh Ani by Moshe ibn Makhir

✍ Meditation on the Akeidah in the Birkot haShaḥar, by Shim’on Menachem

✍ אשר יצר | Asher Yatsar prayer for recognizing the Divine Image in all our bodies by R’ Emily Aviva Kapor

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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

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