Prayer for Commercial Success
May it be the will before You, Eternal our God and God of our fathers, that this year be a year of low prices, a year of satiety, a year of trade, a year of rains, sunshine, and dew, and that your people Israel should not need to rely on one another, and do not turn to the prayer of travelers.
Adapted from the translation of Heinrich W. Guggenheimer.
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Adapted from The Jerusalem Talmud, ed. and trans. Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999–2015), https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Talmud/Yerushalmi. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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