Prayer for Life in Purity and Removal of all Spiritual Blocs

Parashat Chukat

Prayer for Life in Purity and Removal of all Spiritual Blocs

Please strengthen me to keep all your laws even those I don’t understand!

 Grant me simple emuna and desire to do whatever You command!

Purify me with hyssop, and I will become pure!

Let me learn from this plant to be humble and demure!

Wash me and I will become whiter than snow!

Without the murky husks, I can remain aglow!

Let me live in the land and feel secure!

Please do not pick my soul premature!

Grant me a long life below! 

So, I can continue to grow!

Before any disease grant us the cure!

Will You ensure that we will endure?

Teach us to know like a long time ago!

When will You let Your Presence show?

Then perhaps we can better assure, 

not to fall prey to any allure. 

Please let all our wellsprings flow,

to appreciate what You bestow!

Then we from Your good waters can drink,

They are sweeter than from a faucet and sink!

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When You remove all our spiritual blocs, 

We will never need to hit any rocks. 

Hashem help us learn from negativity to abstain,

no longer needing to judge, criticize or complain! 

May we cease from noticing all the wrong!

Let us raise our voices in elated song! 

Ascend, O well! all is well wherever You dwell!

From the streams to the heights let us raise through Your well!

Based on Bamidbar Chapter 19-21:

ספר במדבר פרק יט פסוק ב זֹאת חֻקַּת הַתּוֹרָה אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה הָשֵֹם לֵאמֹר דַּבֵּר אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל...

“This is the statute of the Torah which Hashem commanded, saying, speak to the children of Israel…” (Bamidbar 19:2).

 

ספר במדבר פרק יט פסוק ו וְלָקַח הַכֹּהֵן עֵץ אֶרֶז וְאֵזוֹב וּשְׁנִי תוֹלָעַת וְהִשְׁלִיךְ אֶל תּוֹךְ שְׂרֵפַת הַפָּרָה:

“The kohen shall take a piece of cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson wool, and cast them into the burning of the cow” (Bamidbar 19:6).

 

ספר במדבר פרק יט פסוק יז וְלָקְחוּ לַטָּמֵא מֵעֲפַר שְׂרֵפַת הַחַטָּאת וְנָתַן עָלָיו מַיִם חַיִּים אֶל כֶּלִי:

(יח) וְלָקַח אֵזוֹב וְטָבַל בַּמַּיִם אִישׁ טָהוֹר וְהִזָּה עַל הָאֹהֶל וְעַל כָּל הַכֵּלִים וְעַל הַנְּפָשׁוֹת אֲשֶׁר הָיוּ שָׁם וְעַל הַנֹּגֵעַ בַּעֶצֶם אוֹ בֶחָלָל אוֹ בַמֵּת אוֹ בַקָּבֶר:

“They shall take for that unclean person from the ashes of the burnt purification offering, and it shall be placed in a vessel [filled] with spring water. A ritually pure person shall take the hyssop and dip it into the water and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, and on the people who were in it, and on anyone who touched the bone, the slain person, the corpse, or the grave” (Bamidbar 19:17-18).

 

ספר במדבר פרק כ

(א) וַיָּבֹאוּ בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל כָּל הָעֵדָה מִדְבַּר צִן בַּחֹדֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן וַיֵּשֶׁב הָעָם בְּקָדֵשׁ וַתָּמָת שָׁם מִרְיָם וַתִּקָּבֵר שָׁם:

(ב) וְלֹא הָיָה מַיִם לָעֵדָה וַיִּקָּהֲלוּ עַל משֶׁה וְעַל אַהֲרֹן:

(ג) וַיָּרֶב הָעָם עִם משֶׁה וַיֹּאמְרוּ לֵאמֹר וְלוּ גָוַעְנוּ בִּגְוַע אַחֵינוּ לִפְנֵי הָשֵֹם:

(ד) וְלָמָה הֲבֵאתֶם אֶת קְהַל הָשֵֹם אֶל הַמִּדְבָּר הַזֶּה לָמוּת שָׁם אֲנַחְנוּ וּבְעִירֵנוּ:

(ה) וְלָמָה הֶעֱלִיתֻנוּ מִמִּצְרַיִם לְהָבִיא אֹתָנוּ אֶל הַמָּקוֹם הָרָע הַזֶּה לֹא מְקוֹם זֶרַע וּתְאֵנָה וְגֶפֶן וְרִמּוֹן וּמַיִם אַיִן לִשְׁתּוֹת:

The entire congregation of the children of Israel arrived at the desert of Zin in the first month, and the people settled in Kadesh. Miriam died there and was buried there. Then the congregation had no water; so they assembled against Moshe and Aharon. The people quarreled with Moshe, and they said, ‘If only we had died with the death of our brothers before Hashem. Why have you brought the congregation of Hashem to this desert so that we and our livestock should die there? Why have you taken us out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place; it is not a place for seeds, or for fig trees, grapevines, or pomegranate trees, and there is no water to drink’” (Bamidbar 20:1-5).

 

ספר במדבר פרק כ פסוק ח קַח אֶת הַמַּטֶּה וְהַקְהֵל אֶת הָעֵדָה אַתָּה וְאַהֲרֹן אָחִיךָ וְדִבַּרְתֶּם אֶל הַסֶּלַע לְעֵינֵיהֶם וְנָתַן מֵימָיו וְהוֹצֵאתָ לָהֶם מַיִם מִן הַסֶּלַע וְהִשְׁקִיתָ אֶת הָעֵדָה וְאֶת בְּעִירָם: (ט) וַיִּקַּח משֶׁה אֶת הַמַּטֶּה מִלִּפְנֵי הָשֵֹם כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּהוּ:

(י) וַיַּקְהִלוּ משֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן אֶת הַקָּהָל אֶל פְּנֵי הַסָּלַע וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם שִׁמְעוּ נָא הַמֹּרִים הֲמִן הַסֶּלַע הַזֶּה נוֹצִיא לָכֶם מָיִם:

(יא) וַיָּרֶם משֶׁה אֶת יָדוֹ וַיַּךְ אֶת הַסֶּלַע בְּמַטֵּהוּ פַּעֲמָיִם וַיֵּצְאוּ מַיִם רַבִּים וַתֵּשְׁתְּ הָעֵדָה וּבְעִירָם:

(יב) וַיֹּאמֶר הָשֵֹם אֶל משֶׁה וְאֶל אַהֲרֹן יַעַן לֹא הֶאֱמַנְתֶּם בִּי לְהַקְדִּישֵׁנִי לְעֵינֵי בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לָכֵן לֹא תָבִיאוּ אֶת הַקָּהָל הַזֶּה אֶל הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר נָתַתִּי לָהֶם: (יג) הֵמָּה מֵי מְרִיבָה אֲשֶׁר רָבוּ בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת הָשֵֹם וַיִּקָּדֵשׁ בָּם:

“Take the staff and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aharon, and speak to the rock in their presence so that it will give forth its water. You shall bring forth water for them from the rock and give the congregation and their livestock to drink. Moshe took the staff from before Hashem as He had commanded him. Moshe and Aharon assembled the congregation in front of the rock, and he said to them, ‘Now listen, you rebels, can we draw water for you from this rock?’ Moshe raised his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice when an abundance of water gushed forth, and the congregation and their livestock drank. Hashem said to Moshe and Aharon, ‘Since you did not have faith in Me to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly to the Land which I have given them.’ These are the waters of dispute [Mei Merivah] where the children of Israel contended with Hashem, and He was sanctified through them” (Bamidbar 20:8-13).

ספר במדבר פרק כא פסוק טז וּמִשָּׁם בְּאֵרָה הִוא הַבְּאֵר אֲשֶׁר אָמַר הָשֵֹם לְמשֶׁה אֱסֹף אֶת הָעָם וְאֶתְּנָה לָהֶם מָיִם:

(יז) אָז יָשִׁיר יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת הַשִּׁירָה הַזֹּאת עֲלִי בְאֵר עֱנוּ לָהּ: (יח) בְּאֵר חֲפָרוּהָ שָׂרִים כָּרוּהָ נְדִיבֵי הָעָם בִּמְחֹקֵק בְּמִשְׁעֲנֹתָם וּמִמִּדְבָּר מַתָּנָה: (יט) וּמִמַּתָּנָה נַחֲלִיאֵל וּמִנַּחֲלִיאֵל בָּמוֹת:

“From there to the well; that is the well of which Hashem said to Moshe, ‘Gather the people, and I will give them water.’ Then Israel sang this song: ‘Ascend, O well, sing to it!’ A well dug by princes, carved out by nobles of the people, through the lawgiver with their staffs, and from the desert, a gift. From the gift to the streams, and from the streams to the heights” (Bamidbar 21:16-19).

 

ספר תהילים פרק נא פסוק ט תְּחַטְּאֵנִי בְאֵזוֹב וְאֶטְהָר תְּכַבְּסֵנִי וּמִשֶּׁלֶג אַלְבִּין:

“Purify me with a hyssop, and I will become pure; wash me, and I will become whiter than snow” (Tehillim 51:9).