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One sentence of thanks, customarily said on waking, before the day begins.
The English under each line is Israel.com's own plain-English meaning, not a printed translation.
מוֹדֶה אֲנִי לְפָנֶיךָ מֶלֶךְ חַי וְקַיָּם שֶׁהֶחֱזַרְתָּ בִּי נִשְׁמָתִי בְּחֶמְלָה, רַבָּה אֱמוּנָתֶךָ:
I give thanks to You, living and everlasting King, for returning my soul to me with compassion. Great is Your faithfulness.
Sources read on 2 November 2026
Prayers by the time they are said·All 150 psalms and today's reading
Customarily as soon as a person wakes up, still in bed. It opens the day's prayers.
The usual reason given is that it contains no divine name, so there is nothing to wait for.
The letters are the same. A woman customarily says the first word with the vowels of modah (מוֹדָה) in place of modeh (מוֹדֶה).
Four editions were compared for this page, two of the Ashkenaz wording and two of the Edot HaMizrach wording, and they print the same letters, so one text is shown.
About 1 minute at a steady pace, 12 words.