Tefillah livnei Zug velaHorim — A Prayer for Spouses and Parents

A Prayer for a Husband and Wife, and for Parents over Their Children

 

A beautiful prayer from the book Derech Yesharah, for a husband and wife to pray for themselves and for the children who have come from them —

that they may live in peace and in love, and live long in good health,

and raise their sons and daughters in peace, in tranquility, and in ease,

and bring them to their life partners with ease and with abundance,

and be spared from all harm and all illness.

 

Please, Adonai, in Your abundant mercy and in Your great kindness,

grant us — me and my husband (Name son of Name; for a husband: and my wife, Name daughter of Name) —

length of days and years;

that You fill out the number of our days until the fullness of our years, seventy years,

and may there be love, brotherhood, and friendship between us.

Remove from us a heart of anger and irritability,

and may no quarrel or strife fall between us,

that we may merit to spend our days in goodness.

 

Remove from us every kind of sorrow and worry in the world,

so that we have no burden from the burdens of the times in this world.

 

Grant me — me and my husband (for a husband: and my wife) —

the merit to raise our sons and daughters for Torah, for the chuppah, and for good deeds;

that our sons and daughters be people of wealth and honor,

pious men and pious women,

and may not one of our sons or daughters die in our lifetime —

rather, fill out the number of their days in good old age and in good fortune.

 

And I and my husband (Name son of Name; for a husband: and my wife, Name daughter of Name)

will raise them together in love and in affection, in health and in tranquility and in security,

in wealth and in honor, in length of days and years.

 

And You, Adonai, provide us with what we need for our sustenance,

to feed and to support and to provide for our sons and daughters,

and to give to each and every one a dowry fitting to our standing.

 

Deliver me and my husband (Name son of Name; for a husband: and my wife Name daughter of Name)

and my sons (let their names be said) and my daughters (let their names be said),

from every kind of calamity and from every harsh and evil decree,

and from every trouble that stirs to come upon the world,

and from the hand of gentiles and their judgments,

and from an evil person, and from an evil encounter, and from the Destroyer, and from the evil inclination,

and from every kind of sorcery,

and from harsh judgment and from a harsh adversary in judgment,

and from bandits, robbers, plunderers, and murderers,

and from every enemy and foe —

whether in the city, whether in the field, whether on the road,

in every place where we go,

whether by day or by night.

Deliver us from evil dreams and from evil illnesses:

illness of the head, the eyes, the ears, and the chest,

burning fever and pain in the teeth, intestinal ailments,

and every other kind of affliction and illness,

whether inside the body or outside the body.

 

Please, Adonai, fulfill all the desires of my heart for good;

accomplish my request and my plea with mercy.

May nothing stand in the way of my prayer — not the Adversary, not the evil inclination, not the accuser —

but may there be ever so many angels of mercy pleading rightly on my behalf.

May this verse be fulfilled in me: You shall decree a thing and it shall stand for you.

Illuminate Your face upon Your servant; save me in Your kindness.

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before You.