Since I’m working on the middah of gratitude this week, I want to focus on the morning blessings, Birkot ha-shachar, in my daily prayers.
hitbodedut as diligence
truth muscles
using every opportunity
love your neighbor, love Hashem
While it is important to be diligent and righteous in our service to Hashem, we must temper that also with serving those around us and showing them love and deference. Our concern for the needs of others, for the time of others, must be at the forefront of our minds as we endeavor to show love to our Creator and His creation.
Not surprisingly, the name for the collection of blessing and davening texts for the Jewish people is the siddur, which comes from the word, seder (order).
