Morning Hymn [in Illness] (Father of all), by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

Shared on:

20 May 2023 under the Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication

Categories:

Well-being, health, and caregiving, Yotser Ohr

Tags:

paraliturgical teḥinot, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English, blessings prior to the shema, paraliturgical yotser ohr, 19th century C.E., hymns of creation, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M.

TOGGLE COLUMNS (on/off):

ADJUST COLUMN POSITIONS: select the column header cell and drag it where you want. show me!

COPY INDIVIDUAL COLUMN(S): use CopyTables, a browser extension.

TABLE HELP

Contribute a translation	Source (English)
	Morning hymn [in Illness].
	Father of all! beneficent Giver of all good, O pour Thy spirit on my lips, that I may praise Thee, and glorify Thee for the blessings so constantly surrounding me.
	Though my weak offering ascend from my bed, permit Thy grace to purify and render it acceptable to Thee. Praise Thou thyself in me, for my sinful nature knows not how to frame the words of thanksgiving pleasing unto Thee.
	Thou hast deemed it good to deprive me of the elasticity of spirit, and buoyancy of health, which Thy loving-kindness permitted should continue for so long a time; yet will I thank and bless Thee, O my Father, for the light affliction with which Thou hast afflicted me;
	I bless Thee for the hours of calm and dreamless sleep Thou hast bestowed on me; Thy shield was around me; Thy arm sustained me. Thy mercy permitteth me again to wake in sense and life.
	I bless Thee for continuing around me the friends I love; the kindness they lavish on me, O Lord, springeth from Thee alone.
	I bless Thee for the comforts of home, the peace and sufficiency, which in sickness as in health are mine;
	and O blessed art Thou, my merciful Father, for the glad sunshine which, illumining all the creation, beameth within my chamber, and whispereth, that even as those glorious beams pass not by on their course, and leave me in darkness, so wilt not Thou forsake me, O my God. Thy grace will shine upon my soul in sickness as in health, and give me peace;
	for the rain, the wind, each varying change, I bless Thee, Lord; for they are the glorious emblems of Thy never-failing mercy, Thy constant love for man. Thou givest man his food, and hearest the young ravens when they cry, and me hast Thou fed, O my Father, and my tongue shall speak of Thy glory all the day long, for enabling me still to look on Thy beautiful world with adoration and with love, though my spirit rises not in eager joy, as was its wont in health.
	For the blessed privilege of calling upon Thee, clinging to Thee, trusting in Thee, O Lord, I bless Thee.
	O though words fail, and I cannot magnify Thy name, magnify it unto me my God; teach me to praise Thee, and O reject not the offerings of a sad and contrite heart; a broken spirit Thou hast promised not to despise; Thou seest mine is broken; merciful Father it shares the weakness of its earthly prison, and cannot address Thee in connected words.
	O accept my imperfect praises; there is none like unto Thee, the One true God, the living God, the everlasting King; there is no mercy, no love like Thine. O my Father, permit them to descend upon my soul, and teach it how to praise Thee; waft its thanksgivings on high.
	Blessed art Thou who healest the sick, restorest to life and causest salvation to spring forth.
	Blessed, and glorified, and magnified be Thy holy and sacred name, Almighty and merciful Father, henceforth and for ever. Amen, and Amen.

“Morning hymn (Father all)” [in Illness] by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in the UK edition of Sacred Communings, pp. 116-117. It is not found in the US edition.

Source(s)

. Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication . 1.0 . Universal .

“Morning Hymn [in Illness] (Father of all), by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 1.0 Universal license.

Grace Aguilar

Grace Aguilar (2 June 1816 – 16 September 1847) was an English novelist, poet and writer on Jewish history and religion. Although she had been writing since childhood, much of her work was published posthumously. Among those are her best known works, the novels Home Influence and A Mother's Recompense. Aguilar was the eldest child of Sephardic Jewish refugees from Portugal who settled in the London Borough of Hackney. An early illness resulted in her being educated by her parents, especially her mother, who taught her the tenets of Judaism. Later, her father taught the history of Spanish and Portuguese Jews during his own bout with tuberculosis which had led the family to move to the English coast. After surviving the measles at the age of 19, she began to embark on a serious writing career, even though her physical health never completely recovered. Aguilar's debut was an anonymous collection of poems, The Magic Wreath of Hidden Flowers. Three years later she translated Isaac Orobio de Castro's Israel Defended into English at her father's behest. Later her The Spirit of Judaism drew interest and sales in both Britain and the United States after being published in Philadelphia by Isaac Leeser. He added a preface to the work elucidating his differences with her, the first of many clashes her work would have with mainstream Jewish thought. In the 1840s her novels began to attract regular readers, and Aguilar moved back to London with her parents. Despite her success, she and her mother still had to operate a boys' Hebrew school to stay solvent, which she resented for the time and energy it took from her writing. In 1847, she became ill again with a spinal paralysis which she did not let prevent her from visiting her brother in Frankfurt. Her health worsened and she died there that September.

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)

Pocket Pinterest Reddit 𝕏 Facebook Telegram WhatsApp SMS Email

Works of related interest:

morning prayer (almighty and merciful father) (Grace Aguilar 1853) - cropped

Morning prayer [in Illness] (Almighty and merciful Father), by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

prayer (oh, father, merciful father] (Grace Aguilar 1853) - cropped

Prayer (Oh, Father, merciful Father) [version 1], by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

Prayer (Oh, Father, merciful Father) [version 2] / Dedication and Surrender, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

morning hymn (Blessed art Thou) [version 1] (Grace Aguilar 1853) - cropped

Morning Hymn (Blessed art Thou) [version 1], by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

morning hymn (Blessed art Thou) [version 2] (Grace Aguilar 1853) - cropped

Morning Hymn (Blessed art Thou) [version 2], by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

Morning Hymn (Bless thou the Lord), by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

evening prayer [in illness] (Grace Aguilar 1853) - cropped

Evening prayer [in illness], by Grace Aguilar (1837)

prev next

Comments, Corrections, and QueriesCancel reply

Stable Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=51123

Associated Image:

morning hymn (father of all) [in illness] (Grace Aguilar 1853) – cropped

(This image is set to automatically show as the "featured image" in shared links on social media.)

Source Data: XML | JSON

Re-formatted: HTML | ODT

Terms of Use: Be a mentsch (a conscientious, considerate person) and adhere to the following guidelines:

Properly attribute the work to Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription).
Clearly indicate the date you accessed the work and in what ways, if any, you modified it. (If you have adapted the work, let us know so that the contributor might consider endorsing your revision.)
Provide the stable link to this resource: <https://opensiddur.org/?p=51123>.
Indicate that the original work was shared under the Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication. (To redistribute or remix this work in any format, modified or unmodified, you must refer to the terms of the license under which the work is shared.)

Additional Notes:

The views expressed in this work represent the views of their creator(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Open Siddur Project's developers, its diverse community of volunteer contributors, or its institutional partners.
We strongly advise against printing sacred texts and art containing divine names as these copies must be regarded with reverence, complicating their casual treatment and disposal.
If you must dispose of a printed sacred text (one containing Divine Names), please locate the closest genizah (often established by a synagogue) and contact its custodians for further instructions. We also recommend using Morah Yehudis Fishman's Prayer for Adding a Work to the Genizah.

Support this work: The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-commercial, non-denominational, non-prescriptive, gratis & libre Open Access archive of contemplative praxes, liturgical readings, and Jewish prayer literature (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure) composed in every era, region, and language Jews have ever prayed. Our goal is to provide a platform for sharing open-source resources, tools, and content for individuals and communities crafting their own prayerbook (siddur). Through this we hope to empower personal autonomy, preserve customs, and foster creativity in religious culture.

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