An Intention for Eating on Yom Kippur, by Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez (2022)
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open_content_license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Date: 2022-09-29
Last Updated: 2025-02-18
Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, fasting, כוונות kavvanot, עינוי Innui (self-affliction), פיקוח נפש piqoaḥ nefesh
Excerpt: An Intention for Eating on Yom Kippur was written by Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez and appears in הַרְחֶב פִּֽיךָ וַאֲמַלְאֵֽהוּ Open Your Mouth Wide, and I (God) Will Fill It: Prayers and Rituals for those who need to eat on Yom Kippur (2022), p. 4. . . .
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יהי רצון מלפניך…
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Yehi Ratson milfanekha…
May it be your will, God of compassion and grace,
that I can remember that every bite I eat today is my Mitsvah.
God of mercy,
help me remember that this food fuels my soul
so that I may serve you in health for another year.
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Just as you are slow to anger,
abundant in kindness and truth —
let me be so with myself
in the moments when I feel guilt or shame,
knowing that this is my mitsvah.
Allow me to be amongst those
with whom you preserve kindness
for a thousand generations.
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May it be your will that I eat
knowing it is not a sin,
and that although you are
the forgiver of iniquity, willful sin, and errors —
my eating will not be amongst those moments
which are cleansed by repentance today.
Allow me the self awareness
to not slip into that space.
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I am but your servant,
and need to eat
so that I may dwell in your house
all my days.
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An Intention for Eating on Yom Kippur was written by Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez and appears in הַרְחֶב פִּֽיךָ וַאֲמַלְאֵֽהוּ Open Your Mouth Wide, and I (God) Will Fill It: Prayers and Rituals for those who need to eat on Yom Kippur (2022), p. 4.
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Contributor: Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez
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Name: Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez
Bio: Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez is a Jewish educator, programmer, and community builder currently serving as the Manager of the Jewish Camp Initiative at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Clergy Advisory Chair for MACoM (Metro Atlanta Community Mikvah). She received semikhah (rabbinic ordination) from Yeshivat Maharat in 2018 and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Illinois in 2006. She has also learned intensively at Nishmat and Pardes in Jerusalem and worked for JEWISHcolorado, JCC Manhattan, Hillel International, and Global Day of Jewish Learning.
Website: https://www.yeshivatmaharat.org/scholar/scholten-gutierrez/melissa
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/melissa-scholten-gutierrez
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