A Prayer While Kneading Dough

Kneading dough offers time to pray for loved ones: for healing, a marriage match, peace at home, livelihood and our children's wellbeing. This prayer connects our requests with the prayers of Moshe Rabbeinu.

Basya Tsybukmakher

2016-03-06 A Prayer While Kneading Dough

While kneading dough, we have enough time to pray for all our loved ones, naming those who need healing, a shidduch (a marriage match), shalom bayit (peace at home), parnassah (livelihood), as well as the spiritual and material wellbeing of our children. The following prayer connects us and our prayers with the teacher of the whole Jewish people, Moshe Rabbeinu, and with his appeals to the Creator, so that the strength of his prayer may support us.

תפילה בזמן הלישה

Transliteration	Hebrew text
Ana Ado-nai, zakeini litzor et ha-issah, azor li she-ezkeh leyachel u-lehitpalel eilecha be-chol lev. Al Moshe Rabbeinu ne'emar: va-yechal Moshe (leshon challah), she-yachulu aleinu tefilotav shel ha-ro'eh ha-ne'eman, ve-nizkeh latzet be-simchah likrat kallah, be-Shabbat kodesh ha-ba'ah aleinu le-tovah.	אָנָּא יְיָ, זַכֵּנִי לִצֹר אֶת הָעִסָּה, שֶׁתְּהֵא בִּבְחִינַת יְצִירָה חֲדָשָׁה וְעִנְיָן שֶׁל קְדֻשָּׁה. חַלָה - מִלְּשׁוֹן יִחוּל וְתִקְוָה, עֲזֹר לִי שֶׁאֶזְכֶּה לְיַחֵל וּלְהִתְפַּלֵּל אֵלֶיךָ בְּכָל לֵב. עַל מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּנוּ נֶאֱמַר "וַיְחַל מֹשֶׁה"(לְשׁוֹן חַלָּה) - שֶׁיָּחוּלוּ עָלֵינוּ תְּפִילּוֹתָיו שֶׁל הַרוֹעֶה הַנֶּאֱמָן, וְנִזְכֶּה לָצֵאת בְּשִׂמְחָה לִקְרַאת כַּלָּה, בְּשַׁבַּת קֹדֶשׁ הַבָּאָה עָלֵינוּ לְטוֹבָה.
*Translation* Please, Almighty G-d, grant me the merit to prepare dough that has the quality of a new creation and of holiness. Since the word challah echoes words meaning yearning and hope, help me merit to yearn for You and pray to You with all my heart. As it is said of Moshe Rabbeinu, “And Moshe pleaded” (a word sharing a root with “challah”), may the prayers of the Faithful Shepherd take effect on our behalf, and may we merit to go out joyfully to greet the Bride on the holy Shabbat that comes to us for good.

Transliteration

Hebrew text

Ana Ado-nai, zakeini litzor et ha-issah, azor li she-ezkeh leyachel u-lehitpalel eilecha be-chol lev. Al Moshe Rabbeinu ne'emar: va-yechal Moshe (leshon challah), she-yachulu aleinu tefilotav shel ha-ro'eh ha-ne'eman, ve-nizkeh latzet be-simchah likrat kallah, be-Shabbat kodesh ha-ba'ah aleinu le-tovah.

אָנָּא יְיָ, זַכֵּנִי לִצֹר אֶת הָעִסָּה, שֶׁתְּהֵא בִּבְחִינַת יְצִירָה חֲדָשָׁה וְעִנְיָן שֶׁל קְדֻשָּׁה. חַלָה - מִלְּשׁוֹן יִחוּל וְתִקְוָה, עֲזֹר לִי שֶׁאֶזְכֶּה לְיַחֵל וּלְהִתְפַּלֵּל אֵלֶיךָ בְּכָל לֵב. עַל מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּנוּ נֶאֱמַר "וַיְחַל מֹשֶׁה"(לְשׁוֹן חַלָּה) - שֶׁיָּחוּלוּ עָלֵינוּ תְּפִילּוֹתָיו שֶׁל הַרוֹעֶה הַנֶּאֱמָן, וְנִזְכֶּה לָצֵאת בְּשִׂמְחָה לִקְרַאת כַּלָּה, בְּשַׁבַּת קֹדֶשׁ הַבָּאָה עָלֵינוּ לְטוֹבָה.

Translation

Please, Almighty G-d, grant me the merit to prepare dough that has the quality of a new creation and of holiness. Since the word challah echoes words meaning yearning and hope, help me merit to yearn for You and pray to You with all my heart. As it is said of Moshe Rabbeinu, “And Moshe pleaded” (a word sharing a root with “challah”), may the prayers of the Faithful Shepherd take effect on our behalf, and may we merit to go out joyfully to greet the Bride on the holy Shabbat that comes to us for good.