![the Open Siddur Project [logo]](https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Open-Siddur-Project-Logo-2016.svg){kind=logo}
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.
| Contribute a translation | Source (English) |
|---|---|
“By all that He requires of me I know what God Himself must be.” (John G. Whittier.[1] From “Revelation” by John G. Whittier, 1886 (as found in the Complete Poetical Works of John G. Whittier, vol. 2: Poems of Nature, Religious Poems, etc., p. 342-344. ) | |
Dear Father in heaven, as I am about to lay me down to rest I want to offer Thee a prayer of thanks for all the kindness Thou hast shown unto me today. | |
I know I did not deserve Thy goodness, for I did not do my duty as I ought. I have been fretful and impatient, hasty, too, when I should have controlled my temper. And yet, how thoughtful were my dear parents to me, their erring child! | |
But I ask Thy forgiveness, God, for all these failings, and pray for help to improve in the future. | |
Watch over me and my dear ones this night; let us meet again in love ready to do whatever Thou sendest us to do, with a willing heart. Amen. |
This untitled “Evening Meditation for the Young,” a bedtime prayer, was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), page 137.
Source(s)
Notes
| 1 | From “Revelation” by John G. Whittier, 1886 (as found in the Complete Poetical Works of John G. Whittier, vol. 2: Poems of Nature, Religious Poems, etc., p. 342-344. |
|---|
“A Bedtime Prayer for the Young, by Annie Josephine Levi (1900)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.
Stable Link:
https://opensiddur.org/?p=50323
Associated Image:
[evening meditation for the young] (Annie Josephine Levi 1900)
(This image is set to automatically show as the "featured image" in shared links on social media.)
Terms of Use:
Be a mentsch (a conscientious, considerate person) and adhere to the following guidelines:
- Properly attribute the work to Annie Josephine Levi and Aharon N. Varady (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=50323>.
- 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
![[evening meditation] (Annie Josephine Levi 1900)](https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/evening-meditation-Annie-Josephine-Levi-1900-250x250.png)
![on the loss of a beloved one [morning meditation] (Annie Josephine Levi 1900) - cropped](https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/on-the-loss-of-a-beloved-one-morning-meditation-Annie-Josephine-Levi-1900-cropped-250x250.png)
Comments, Corrections, and Queries