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 The following is one part of a 7 part prayer for fasting and forgiveness for Jewish women.
Lord of the world, I begin to speak,
I beg without forgiveness,
My tongue is silenced by the enormity
Of the sins I have committed
That remain unconfessed,
And lie heavily upon me,
Like the harshest sins that are no longer remembered.
There are so many that my mouth cannot speak of them all
And my tongue cannot search them out.
They have covered me from head to foot
So I cannot free them
From my trembling body,
And it frightens me greatly.
So I beg You for Your mercy,
For Gd does not desire that a sinner shall die a sinner,
Not until they have repented with all their heart
And have shown remorse for their sins
For You wish to be merciful and accept their repentance.
This reassures me
And so I beg You, Gd, to accept this prayer
From one who repents to You with all her heart,
And may You take into account
My good deeds with Your great mercy.
I beg You to accept this prayer that I offer You.
Lord of all the world,
I have sinned before You by day and by night,
When lying down and when I rise,
My body is full of sin.
I am shamed to come before You
In my stained garments,
And my heart is embittered
For when I leave this world
And stand before You
I will remember that I corrupted my own body
With pleasures that lasted
No longer than the blink of an eye,
And now my soul is corrupted for ever,
And shall be bound in red because of the punishing angels
Who were created because of the sin of man.
Almighty Gd, how was I so foolish?
How can the Blessed Name show me mercy
When He has chosen me to rule over cows
And over all animals,
And all things on the earth,
And yet I, foolish woman that I am,
Cannot rule over my own body,
But have sinned and transgressed many times
And have been worse than a cow or an ox
Or a donkey.
I am a sinner who has chosen evil over good,
And have not thought about bitter death and how I must suffer,
Therefore I beg You, Almighty Gd,
Create in me a new heart,
Remove the stains from my tainted heart,
Banish the evil inclination,
And forgive my foolishness,
For my body is only ashes and earth.
When the Blessed Name takes my soul
And when my body is returned to the earth,
And my limbs are full of fear,
And my heart is consumed with weeping and shouting,
If I, Heaven forbid, do not repent
Of all the transgressions of my lifetime,
May the Blessed Name stand by me,
So I may serve His glorious Name.
And sin no more.
Amein. Selah.
Seyder Tkhines The forgotten Book of Common Prayer for Jewish Women Translated and edited with commentary by Devra Kay
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