Each request of the Amidah clarifies and awakens our desire to receive God’s goodness. Our prayers, so to speak, give God pleasure because only when we hunger for His goodness can His blessings flow into our lives. However, more than His blessings for wisdom, health, prosperity etc., God greatest gift to us is His Divine Presence, when we know that He is all there is and feel completely one with Him. The sacrificial offerings empower us to awaken and express from deep within us our desire to completely give ourselves over to Him and experience His loving presence embrace and fill us. Having previously asked for individual, national and global return to God, we now pray for God’s complete return to us, so that “we may [literally] see with our eyes Your return to Zion.” This request is for the fulfillment of God’s own promise to us: “Return to Me … and I will return to You.” Take pleasure, YHVH Eloheinu, in Your nation Israel and their prayers. Your pleasure comes from giving Your goodness to us and that is only possible when we truly want and pray to receive Your goodness. And restore the service to the chamber of Your house, and accept the fire-offerings of Israel and their prayers, lovingly and willingly. We know that prayer is only a prelude to an even greater pleasure we can give You because of a even greater gift that we are able to receive from You. Therefore, please restore to us the sacrificial service of the Temple which will ignite within us our innate burning desire to not only receive Your blessings but Your presence. The sacrificial service will give expression to our flaming passion to give our lives completely to You, to remove the physical barriers of flesh that set us apart from You and enjoy at-one-ment—that there is nothing but You, that we exist within You, as a part of You. We will then experience ourselves completely subsumed and filled with Your loving presence. May You always take pleasure in the service of Israel, Your nation which is always expressing our desire for Your loving presence. And may we see with our eyes Your return to Zion. We have already prayed for our personal return to You, for the return of our nation and for a global turning to God. However we now pray for Your complete return to us, for the manifestation of Your complete presence in Zion, so much so that we will literally see You with our very eyes, and everything and everyone will be filled with Your presence. Blessed are You … O how bountiful and abundantly present You are in our lives. O what an ever-flowing wellspring of blessings You are to us, YHVH, Timeless Ultimate Reality, who returns His Divine Presence to Zion. The more we believe and acknowledge that God is always returning His Divine Presence, and the more we sincerely want to see Him in our lives, the more this truth becomes readily visible.