Elohai, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking deceitfully. Protect me from violating my partnership with You and abusing the precious power of speech. And to those who curse me may my soul be silent. Protect me not only from instigating slander and lies but also from reacting badly to insults or any form of verbal abuse towards me. May my soul be quiet that I not get drawn into their negativity and feel any need to lash out in retaliation. May my soul be like dust to all, unnoticed like the dust of the earth, not seeking to draw attention to myself, so that no one will even bother to curse me. And yet like the dust of the earth, if stepped upon, may I remain indestructible, strong and ever-present. Open my heart with Your Torah. May my prayers inspire me to want to know more and do more, to learn more of Your Torah and aggressively pursue opportunities to serve You better. I also ask that I hear You speak to me when I learn Your Torah and experience Your Torah opening my heart not just challenging my mind. And may my soul pursue Your commandments, driven by the most elementary force within me to always do more. As for all who plot evil against me, quickly cancel their plans and frustrate their intentions. Protect me from those who plot to harm me and seek to derail me from pursuing the Torah and its commandments. Do it for Your name’s sake. Protect me and empower me so that I can build and promote Your name recognition in order to inspire others to acknowledge Your presence in their lives. Do it for the sake of Your right hand, using this opportunity to manifest Your kindness and to help the Jewish people who are Your “right hand man” ready to do Your work in the world. Do this for the sake of Your holiness, so that I can do my job to reveal Your holiness. Do it for the sake of Your Torah to actualize Your values and ideals on earth. In order that Your loved ones be liberated from all forms of bondage, deliver with Your right hand and answer me. Until now I asked You to do it for Your sake, but now I ask that You do it for my sake because I am Your beloved, Your right hand man. May the words of my mouth, what I was able to put in words, and the meditations of my heart, emotions that are beyond words, before You, YHVH, my Rock, before whom I humbly surrender, and my Redeemer, before whom I stand empowered, be in accordance with Your will, so that I am aligned with Your will, wanting what You want to give me. (Take three steps starting with your left foot to express your reluctance—that it is hard for you to walk away from this incredible experience.) (Bow left) He who constantly makes peace in His highest realm, from whose heavenly perspective, there is already peace. (Bow right) He will make peace for us, (Bow straight ahead) and for the entire people of Israel. I know that peace already exists and it is only a matter of time when it will be manifest for us on earth. Amen.