Prayers/Prayer for Parnassah (Financial Sustenance)
Intro and Background
A Jewish Prayer[1]
The Prayer
Master of the World, in your holy words it is written,
“And one who trusts in G-d, kindness will encompass him:”[2]
And you give life to all.
You Lord, G-d of truth, give us blessing and success in all we endeavor with our hands to do and all our efforts,
that we may provide for ourselves and all the members of our household,
with ease and not with difficulty,
in a permitted way and not a forbidden one,
broadly and not narrowly,
from the overflowing blessing and success from the overflowing of the blessings on high,
from your hand and not by the hand of flesh and blood,
and through us may the verse be upheld as it is written:
“Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you.[3]
You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of all living things.”[4]
The Lord is King forever and ever.
May it be your will, Lord my God, and God of my fathers,
that you send great blessing and success in all the doings of my hands,
for I have trusted in you to feed and sustain myself and my household,
with ease and not with difficulty, for life and peace.
Amen. May it be Your will.
References
- ↑ The following is my translation of a common prayer for Parnassah (making a living), which I believe was written by the Ben Ish-Hai, and is found in many siddurim. What is good and worthy in it is from the original, and any fault is with my translation. Eitan Levy https://thesedailyprayers.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/prayer-for-parnassah-financial-sustenance/
- ↑ Psalm 32:10
- ↑ Psalms 55:23
- ↑ Psalms 145:16