Prayer for Livelihood and Success

"Master of the Universe, grant me a dignified livelihood before I need it, so that I may always turn away from evil and do what is good in Your eyes, and truly be according to Your good will.

For You know how much livelihood confuses me, hinders me, and weakens my mind from strengthening myself in Your service.

Master of the Universe, I know that I am very, very far from a dignified livelihood, for I have greatly sinned against You, I have corrupted my deeds and diminished my livelihood.

(And even a prayer for livelihood, I do not know how to say properly.) But I have come before You, full of mercy, like a poor person at the entrance, like a destitute and needy person knocking on doors, spreading out my hands, asking and requesting a free gift and an act of grace, that You would grant me grace by Your abundant mercies alone, by Your immense kindnesses alone, and You would provide my livelihood from heaven, and give me all my needs and all the needs of my household, and all those dependent on me and all who accompany us before we need them, for our eyes are fixed on You alone, our eyes await and hope for You alone.

Master of the Universe,

You are above all causes and reasons, and You can bring about good causes with Your abundant mercies, so that livelihood may come to us easily, without any confusion, without any troubles or toil, and without any natural causes,

Only that You provide us with livelihood by Your abundant mercies, easily and quickly, and that this livelihood be drawn to us for good [to cover the expenses of Shabbat and holidays and other holy Torah commandments, and to give abundant charity to worthy Torah scholars] in great abundance.

And may we merit to refine our livelihood with great holiness, that we may merit to eat and drink with great holiness and purity, so that our eating and drinking may be refined, and become holy essences like incense, until they become 'words of beauty,' which are blessings and praises to Your great and holy Name. And these 'words of beauty' shall ascend and unite with the King, and become a crown for the King. And may we merit to see this crown, as it is written: 'Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and gaze upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, and on the day of the joy of his heart.' (Answer us in our prayer for good livelihood and success)…

Livelihood with Ease

And may we merit to see the King in His beauty, as it is written: 'Your eyes shall behold the King in His beauty.' And do not delay our livelihoods because of this, for You 'can do all things and no purpose of Yours can be thwarted,' for You are able to bring about good causes so that livelihood may come to us very quickly, without any delay at all, and without any effort or reason and without any trouble at all (if he has difficulty with his boss/manager, he should mention here, in his own words, the difficulties and obstacles he faces in his livelihood, openly and in supplication before God), and with all this, may we merit to see the King in His beauty 'with the crown with which his mother crowned him,' made from the 'words of beauty' that are refined through livelihood and holy eating.

And fulfill for us the scripture that is written: 'He redeems your life from the pit, He crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies. He satisfies your years with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.'

Our Father in Heaven, for Your sake, have mercy on us and bring about good causes, so that livelihood may reach us before we need it, and You provide us with all our needs honorably and peacefully, and with permission and great holiness, and with great abundance and tranquility.

Debts and Loans

And save us from debts and loans, and help us quickly pay off all the debts and loans we have incurred (if he has debts, he should mention here, in his own words, the debts and the distress they cause him, household arguments, seizures, and say it openly and in supplication before God), and protect us from now on from ever incurring debt again, for You know that debts and loans greatly confuse us and diminish our service to You, as we prepare ourselves at all times to truly begin Your service.

Have mercy on me and on us, our Father, the merciful Father, who sustains the whole world with His goodness, with grace, kindness, and mercy, and grant me and all our company and all of Israel a dignified livelihood before we need it, so that we do not need to trouble our minds with livelihood at all.

And do not make us dependent on gifts from flesh and blood or their loans, but only on Your full, open, holy, and abundant hand, so that we may never be ashamed or disgraced.

And may we merit to refine our livelihood with great holiness and purity, like incense that gladdens the heart.

And bring us our righteous Messiah quickly in our days, and may he reign over us and over all of Israel and over the whole world. And may he quickly fulfill in us the scripture that is written: 'Your eyes shall behold the King in His beauty; they shall see a land that is far off,' quickly in our days, Amen, may it be Your will.

Prayer for Livelihood and Success (through increased charity).

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov says: "Whoever has limited sustenance should give charity from it, for charity opens all gates and all blocked abundance!!"

Therefore, along with the prayer for livelihood, one should also say a prayer to merit giving charity to truly worthy poor people, with a generous hand and a pleasant countenance, in order to effect and merit true rectifications and the sweetening of judgments, which opens the gates of livelihood and spiritual and material abundance through the virtue of charity!

Charity

Help us merit to give much charity with a pleasant countenance to truly worthy and fitting poor people. And enable us to break our cruel heart and turn it to compassion, and may our heart not be hard like a stone, but help us turn the heart of stone into a soft heart like water, to truly have great compassion on worthy, fitting, and true poor people, to give them all their needs, all that they lack.

And may we merit to effect great unifications with great holiness above, above, through our charities. And be our helper and give us strength so that through our charity, the aspect of Unification, Blessing, Holiness will be created in all the holy worlds, even to the very highest levels:

Please, God, who loves righteousness and justice, grant us, in Your abundant mercies, to fulfill the commandment of charity perfectly according to Your good will, with all its details, intricacies, intentions, and the 613 commandments dependent upon it.

And help us, through charity, to annul and break the lust for illicit relations within us, and separate us from hypocrites and liars, and do not let us stumble with unworthy poor people. And may we merit that all our charities be charities of the Land of Israel, where the air is pleasant and pure, a holy air of Torah scholars and true righteous people, through which holy abundance from the Land of Israel, the Holy Land, flows down.

And protect us in Your abundant mercies, that, God forbid, the Unification, Blessing, Holiness created through charity should not be flawed within us, lest, God forbid, the lust for illicit relations be strengthened through it.

Full of mercy, desirous of kindness, do not judge me according to my deeds, and do not treat me according to my sins, but have mercy on me according to Your abundant mercies and Your abundant kindnesses, and You Yourself protect my charity so that outsiders, God forbid, do not draw from it, and they do not have the power to flaw the Unification, Blessing, Holiness created through my charity.

And do not give them power to strengthen the lust for illicit relations through this, God forbid. For all my intention in the charity that You grant me to give in Your abundant mercies is only for the sake of the commandment of charity alone, to bring You pleasure, as You commanded us in Your Holy Torah to give charity, and You warned us greatly about this with many warnings, and all my intention in giving charity is to rectify and not to corrupt, God forbid.

Therefore, I have come before You

to spread my hands to Your mercies, that You protect me from unworthy poor people. And be with me always, and save me and protect me so that outsiders have no power or dominion to draw from my charity, and they cannot corrupt it in any way.

For I give all my charities with the understanding of the true, great, and elevated righteous people, and they will elevate my commandment of charity, and through it, they will create and rectify great unifications above, above, in the utmost supernal holiness. And You will have great pleasure and delight from my charity. And may I merit to completely break the lust for illicit relations and to merit the rectification of the covenant truly through the power and merit of my charity.

Good and beneficence to all, grant me to give abundant charity to worthy poor people with great holiness according to Your good will, so that the charity may be a great rectification for my soul, spirit, and essence, and I will not enter before You in shame."