אלהי נשמה | Elohai Neshamah, adapted by Yael Schweid & Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi (2009)

Contributor(s): Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi and Yael Schweid

Shared on: 12 August 2020 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

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אֱלֹהַי, נְשָׁמָה שֶׁנָתַתָּ בִּי טְהוֹרָה הִיא. אַתָּה בְרַאתָהּ, וַאֲנִי קִבַּלְתִיהָ; אַתָּה יְצַרְתָהּ, וְהִיא שַׁבְרִיר קְדוּשָה; אַתָּה נְפַחְתָהּ בִּי, וְהִיא צֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים שֶׁבִּי. אַתָּה מְשַׁמְּרָהּ בְּקִרְבִּי, וְעָלַי לְשָׁמְרָהּ טְהוֹרָה. אַתָּה מְחַדְּשָׁהּ בִּי בְּכֹל בֹּקֶר בְּחֶמְלָה, וַאֲנִי בּוֹחֵר/ת בָּחַיִּים וּבַטּוֹב.
כֹּל זְמָן שֶׁהַנְּשָׁמָה בְּקִרְבִּי מוֹדה אֲנִי לְפָנֵיךָ ה׳ אֱלֹהַי וֶאֱלֹהֵי אֲבוֹתַי וְאִמּוֹתַי. אַתָּה רִבּוֹן כֹּל הַמַּעֲשִֹים, אֲדוֹן כֹּל הַנְשָׁמוֹת, וַאֲנִי אֲבַקֵּשׁ דְּרָכִים לְמִימוּשׁ צַלְמְךָ בִּדְמוּתִי.
בָּרוּך אַתָּה ה׳, אֲשֶר בְּיָדוֹ נֶפֶש כֹּל חַי וְרוּחַ כֹּל בְּשַֹר אִישׁ.

ברכת נשמה נוסח קהילת צור הדסה, נכתבה באלול ה׳תשס״ט ע״י הרב עפר שבת בית־הלחמי ויעל שביד, לכבוד בר־המצוה של אהוד – בנה של יעל.‏
This prayer was composed for the Bar mitsvah of Yael Schweid’s son Ehud in 2009.

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“אלהי נשמה | Elohai Neshamah, adapted by Yael Schweid & Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi (2009)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi

Rabbi Ofer Sabath-Beit Halachmi directs AspaklariA (paths for renewing Jewish creativity) and edits the El Halev compendium of original prayers and blessings for lifecycle events.

Yael Schweid

Yael Schweid (יעל שביד) born in Jerusalem in 1967, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and a member of the Reform congregation Shir Chadash in Tzur Hadassah.

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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