מודה אני | Modeh Ani by Moshe ibn Makhir (interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

Modeh Ani, in Hebrew with English translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. . . .

Tags: 16th century C.E., 21st century C.E., 54th century A.M., 58th century A.M., Alive, English vernacular prayer, Gratitude, מודה אני Modeh Ani, רשות reshut, Sunrise, Wakefulness

Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), Mosheh ben Yehudah ibn Makhir and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

מוֹדה אֲנִי | Returning the body to the soul: an adaptation of Modeh Ani by Moshe ibn Makhir

Modeh Ani first appeared as an addendum in Seder ha-Yom (1599) by Moshe ibn Makhir of Safed. A slightly different formula offers a deep insight into who and what has returned to one’s self upon waking. . . .

Categories: Attaining consciousness

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Gratitude, מודה אני Modeh Ani, מודים Modim, רשות reshut, thankfulness, Wakefulness, waking

Contributor(s): Ya'qub Ibn Yusuf, Mosheh ben Yehudah ibn Makhir and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

A Waking Prayer in the Morning, by Dinah Julia Levi (1900)

This untitled “morning mediation,” a waking prayer, was written by Dinah Julia Levi née Emanuel and included by her daughter, Annie Josephine Levi, in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), pp. 56-57. . . .

Categories: Attaining consciousness

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Dinah Julia Emanuel Levi and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Kavvanah for Waking Up, by Andrew Shaw

An original liturgical poem inspired by the Modah|Modeh Ani prayer. . . .

Categories: Attaining consciousness

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Compassion, Darkness, Dawn, English vernacular prayer, Gratitude, Hypnogogic State, Light, Needing Translation (into Hebrew), Sunrise, Threshold, Wakefulness

Contributor(s): Andrew Shaw

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

The formulation for giving thanks for entering wakefulness innovated by Moshe ibn Makhir, as translated by Andrew Shaw. . . .

Categories: Attaining consciousness

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alive, English vernacular prayer, Gratitude, מודה אני Modeh Ani, רשות reshut, shaḥarit, Spirit, Sunrise, Wakefulness

Contributor(s): Andrew Shaw and Mosheh ben Yehudah ibn Makhir

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