Preparing one's hands • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/shared/prayers/solilunar/everyday/daytime/birkhot-hashahar/hand-washing/ a community-grown, libre Open Access archive of Jewish prayer and liturgical resources Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:43:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Open-Siddur-Project-Logo-2015-5509b4bdv1_site_icon-250x250.png Preparing one's hands • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/shared/prayers/solilunar/everyday/daytime/birkhot-hashahar/hand-washing/ 32 32 בִּרְכַּת נְטִילַת יָדָֽיִם | Blessing on preparing one’s hands for wakefulness and other holy activities (translation by Aharon Varady) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/solilunar/everyday/daytime/birkhot-hashahar/hand-washing/blessing-on-preparing-ones-hands-for-wakefulness-and-other-holy-activities/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/solilunar/everyday/daytime/birkhot-hashahar/hand-washing/blessing-on-preparing-ones-hands-for-wakefulness-and-other-holy-activities/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:05:34 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=58975 Source (Hebrew) Translation (English)
Take a clean and unbroken vessel
and fill it with enough water to pour over one’s hands.
Alternate each hand as you pour the water over them,
right and left, right and left, right and left.
Then dry one’s hands and hold them slightly elevated,
while saying the following blessing:
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה
יְיָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ
מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם
אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֺתָיו
וְצִוָּֽנוּ עַל נְטִילַת יָדָֽיִם׃
Blessed are you
YHVH our elo’ah
cosmic majesty
who sanctified us with their mitsvot
and commanded us to elevate our hands.
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בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ
מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם
אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֺתָיו
וְצִוָּֽנוּ עַל נְטִילַת יָדָֽיִם׃
Blessed art thou, O God our King.
The Lord of life and everything.
Who made us holy with commands.
And charged us that we wash our hands.
(Before we eat, before we pray.
And everywhere and every day.
That he who with his Maker stands
Be pure of heart and clean of hands.)

This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing over hand washing was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 81.

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