You, The Divine One, Rock of our being, we ask your blessing for the State of Israel, that it might become the beginning of the flowering of Redemption.

A redemption for the Land, for its fragile beauty, whose mountains valleys and deserts were home to our People in ages past, and now again ...

A redemption for our People, that in settling and dwelling in Erets Yisrael, we rediscover our ancient wisdom and dreams

A redemption for all the families and communities striving to find their destinies, in places filled with echoes of the ancient, and recent, past.

A redemption for the sundered family of our Ancestor Abraham. That descendants of Sarah and Hagar, Yitzhak and Yishmael, Jews, Christians, Moslems, Druze, might find the way to netivot Shalom, to pathways of peace.

A redemption for Torah herself, whose beauty and compelling power is sullied by sinat chinam - causeless hatred. Hatred of one Jew to another, the inability to accept that " ... Torah has many faces".

A redemption for Jerusalem, that all might find within her walls the security and freedom to seek the presence of God. That dwellers in Jerusalem might fulfill the teaching of the Prophet " ... My House shall be a place of prayer for all peoples"

A redemption for all those whose families have been torn by death and maiming.

A dawning of a time when all shall live under "their vine and fig-tree,... and no-one shall make them afraid. For the mouth of the God of Creation has spoken."