A Prayer by Moses with credit given to Zipporah, the wife of Moses: the Woman of God, who inspired Moses:
My Lord, You have been an abode, a dwelling, a House for all of us, in all generations: You had not yet given birth to the 2000+ universes, and to our lands, and from the earliest remotest past and to the most distant future--You are our God: You reduce women and men to nothing, to pulp, and You command us and You say: "Repent. Do teshuvah, O children of two parents." For even a thousand years in Your eyes are but a bygone yesterday, and like a watch in the night: You drown the wicked in floods, they become sleep-like, they are poisoned like weeds: In the morning the wicked blossoms, by evening they are cut down and perish: For all of us: women, men and children, beasts and plants, are consumed by Your Harsh Hot Seething Fury, You see our child-like behaviors in Your brilliant lighted countenance: For our days passed by because of Your anger, we consumed our years like a fleeting thought: The days of our years among them are seventy years, eighty years, our proudest success is but toil and pain, for it is severely cut off swiftly and we fly away: Who can fathom how hugely angry You can get; As ADONAI is feared, Your anger is feared: Teach us to count our days and live by Your holy days, then we shall acquire a loving heart of wisdom with knowledge: Return to us, dearest HASHEM, how long will You be away while we suffer? Relent and come to us, Your servants: Satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, then we shall chant, hum, whistle, or sweetly sing and rejoice; being glad all of our days: Be good to us and gladden us for as many days we have been afflicted, longer, all the years we have seen and experienced evil: May we see all of Your goodness in all that You do for us, in all Your words and actions, and please bless our children: May the pleasantness of my Lord, our God, be upon us--our handiwork, establish for us our calling, our occupation, establish it:
My Lord, You have been an abode, a dwelling, a House for all of us, in all generations: You had not yet given birth to the 2000+ universes, and to our lands, and from the earliest remotest past and to the most distant future--You are our God: You reduce women and men to nothing, to pulp, and You command us and You say: "Repent. Do teshuvah, O children of two parents." For even a thousand years in Your eyes are but a bygone yesterday, and like a watch in the night: You drown the wicked in floods, they become sleep-like, they are poisoned like weeds: In the morning the wicked blossoms, by evening they are cut down and perish: For all of us: women, men and children, beasts and plants, are consumed by Your Harsh Hot Seething Fury, You see our child-like behaviors in Your brilliant lighted countenance: For our days passed by because of Your anger, we consumed our years like a fleeting thought: The days of our years among them are seventy years, eighty years, our proudest success is but toil and pain, for it is severely cut off swiftly and we fly away: Who can fathom how hugely angry You can get; As ADONAI is feared, Your anger is feared: Teach us to count our days and live by Your holy days, then we shall acquire a loving heart of wisdom with knowledge: Return to us, dearest HASHEM, how long will You be away while we suffer? Relent and come to us, Your servants: Satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, then we shall chant, hum, whistle, or sweetly sing and rejoice; being glad all of our days: Be good to us and gladden us for as many days we have been afflicted, longer, all the years we have seen and experienced evil: May we see all of Your goodness in all that You do for us, in all Your words and actions, and please bless our children: May the pleasantness of my Lord, our God, be upon us--our handiwork, establish for us our calling, our occupation, establish it:
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