Ten Remembrances that every person is obligated to remember every day

Ten Remembrances that every person is obligated to remember every day

16 Sivan 5786 | 01/06/2026 | 21:12

For the sake of the unification of the Holy One, Blessed be He, and His Shechinah, behold I am fulfilling the commandment of the ten remembrances that every person is obligated to remember every day, and these are they: 1) the Exodus from Egypt, 2) and the Sabbath, 3) and the Manna, 4) and the deed of Amalek, 5) and the standing at Mount Sinai, 6) and that which our ancestors angered the Holy One, Blessed be He, in the wilderness and specifically with the Calf, 7) and that which Balak and Bilaam counseled to do to our ancestors for the sake of knowing the righteous acts of Hashem, 8) and the deed of Miriam the prophetess, 9) and the commandment of and you shall remember Hashem your God for He is the one who gives you strength to make wealth, 10) and the remembrance of Jerusalem, may it be built and established speedily in our days, Amen.

There are those who say the arranged version that the Chida, of blessed memory, wrote in the book Kaf Achat.

For the sake of the unification of the Holy One, Blessed be He, and His Shechinah, in fear and love, and love and fear, to unify the Name Yod-Kei with Vav-Kei in a complete unification, in the name of all Israel, behold I come to fulfill the commandment of the remembrances with the mouth. To rectify the root of these commandments in a high place, to make gratification to our Creator. And may the pleasantness of my Master our L-rd be upon us, and the work of our hands establish for us, and the work of our hands establish it.

(1) Behold I remember the Exodus from Egypt, as it is said (Exodus 13:3) Remember this day which you went out from Egypt from the house of bondage, for with a strong hand Hashem brought you out from this:

And may it be the will before You, Hashem our L-rd and L-rd of our fathers, that You be filled with mercy upon us for the honor of Your Shechinah. And cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the sake of my Master. And just as in Your abundant and great kindnesses You magnified Your kindness with us and redeemed us and redeemed our ancestors from Egypt, and You brought up with Your strength all the sparks of holiness that were scattered there in Egypt, and there did not remain in it any spark of holiness. So in Your great kindnesses bring us out from this exile. Blow with a great shofar for our freedom, and gather our dispersed from the four corners of the earth, and bring out to the light all the sparks of holiness that were swallowed among the husks, wealth he swallowed and he shall vomit it up, from his belly the Almighty shall drive it out. Reveal the glory of Your kingdom upon us speedily, and a redeemer shall come to Zion, and build the Holy Temple speedily in our days. Do for the sake of Your name, do for the sake of Your right hand, do for the sake of Your holiness, do for the sake of Your Torah, do in the merit of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, Moshe and Aharon, Yoseph and David. And as the days of our going out from Egypt show us wonders. And Hashem shall be for King over all the earth; on that day Hashem shall be one and His name one.

(2) Behold I remember the Sabbath, as it is said (Exodus 20:7) Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it.

And may it be the will before You, Hashem our L-rd and L-rd of our fathers, that You be filled with mercy upon us and upon all Israel. And merit us to keep the holy Sabbath day all the days of our lives, in thought and in speech and in deed. And merit us to delight in it as it is said, and you shall call the Sabbath a delight, to the holy of Hashem honored. And may all our deeds be for the sake of heaven. And save us from sinning. And to guard our mouth and our tongue that we shall not speak on the Sabbath weekday speech and any forbidden speech. And we shall not sin in any forbidden deed at all. And merit us to unify "Remember" and "Keep" the Sabba'th to Hashem, and to connect the beloved ones together. And draw down the abundance of the holiness of the Sabbath, that it should draw upon us in the days of the week an abundance of holiness and purity to do Your will as you will it and to engage in the Torah for its own sake and in commandments and deeds of kindness. And redeem us with a complete redemption for the sake of Your name. Speedily in our days, Amen.

(3) And behold I remember the standing at Mount Sinai, as it is said (Deuteronomy 4:9) Only guard yourself and guard your soul diligently lest you forget the things which your eyes saw and lest they remove from your heart all the days of your life, and you shall make them known to your children and to your children's children. The day which you stood before Hashem your L-rd in Horeb when Hashem said to me: Assemble for Me the people and I will let them hear My words, which they will learn to fear Me all the days which they are alive upon the earth, and their children they shall teach.

And may it be the will before You, Hashem our L-rd and L-rd of our fathers, that You be filled with mercy upon us, and plant love and brotherhood, peace and comradeship between us and between all Israel, and we shall be as one, just as at Mount Sinai there was peace between us, as it is written, and Israel encamped there opposite the mountain: as one man in complete unity, so in Your abundant mercies merit us to remove from us hatred and envy and rivalry, and we shall be lovers of one another, and place peace between us. And just as at the standing at Mount Sinai filth ceased from us, and You refined us and purified us from all impurity and sickness and filth, and You sanctified us with Your holiness, so in Your abundant mercies purify us from our impurity and from our filth, and sanctify us with Your commandments, and purify our thoughts and our heart for Your service and for Your fear, and plant Your Torah in our heart, and may Your fear be upon our faces so that we do not sin, and awaken our heart to the love of Your Torah, and every day may it be in our eyes as if we are receiving Your Torah with cleaving and desire and delight. And enlighten our eyes in Your Torah, and cleave our heart to Your commandments, and unify our heart to love and to fear Your great, mighty, and awesome Name. And redeem us for the sake of Your mercy. And merit us to receive and to hear Torah from Your mouth, as it is said, and all your children shall be taught of Hashem, and great shall be the peace of your children. Speedily in our days, Amen, so may it be the will.

(4) And behold I fulfill the verse that is written (Deuteronomy 8:18) and you shall remember Hashem your L-rd for He is the one who gives you strength to make wealth:

And behold I believe that everything is from Him, may He be blessed, and all the good that we have, whether the good of the body or the good of the soul, everything is from Him, may He be blessed, who magnified His kindness with us in all His righteousness, and according to the multitude of His mercies, may He be blessed and may He be exalted: And may it be the will before You, Hashem our L-rd and L-rd of our fathers, that You be filled with mercy upon us and draw down upon us an abundance of salvation and mercy. And may we be healthy in all our 248 limbs and 365 sinews for Your service and for Your fear. And save us from all illness and from all pain and from all ache and from all evil traits. Heal us Hashem and we shall be healed, save us and we shall be saved for You are our praise. And draw down the supernal dew from the two configurations Notzar and Nakeh through the palate and throat to Abba and Imma, and from Abba and Imma to Zeir Anpin, and from Zeir Anpin to the field of holy apples, and from there it shall chain down and reach and appear as an abundance of salvation and mercy in all the worlds, and drench the face of the world, and satisfy the whole world from Your goodness, and fill our hands from Your blessings and from the wealth of the gifts of Your hands, and provide for us and for all the members of our house a good livelihood and sustenance from Your full and wide hand, with amplitude and permissibility and ease, without any evil eye: And in the abundance of Your mercies save us from all sin and thought and guilt and wickedness. And merit us to return in complete repentance and to engage in the Torah for its own sake and in commandments and deeds of kindness. And we shall make wealth from Torah and commandments. And let there not be found in us and in our seed and in the seed of our seed any blemish and any disqualification. And fulfill in us the verse that is written it shall not depart from your mouth and from the mouth of your seed and from the mouth of your seed's seed, said Hashem, from now and until eternity. Amen, so may it be the will.

(5) And behold I remember with bitterness of soul all that our ancestors angered the Holy One, Blessed be He, in the wilderness and specifically with the Calf, as the verse says (Deuteronomy 9:7) Remember, do not forget, that which you angered Hashem your L-rd in the wilderness; from the day that you went out from the land of Egypt until your coming unto this place, rebellious you have been with Hashem.

And behold we are ashamed and very confounded over the deed of our ancestors, and over our evil deeds, that we have sinned, committed iniquity, and transgressed, and we have transgressed against many of the 248 positive commandments, and against many of the 365 negative commandments, and we have blemished our soul, our spirit, and our neshama, and we have blemished the supernal attributes and all the paths of the way of abundance flowing to our soul, our spirit, and our neshama. Woe and alas to us, we have no mouth to answer and no forehead to lift a head. And now, with a broken spirit and a lowly soul and a bent body we confess before You and say we have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have transgressed, we and our ancestors, and behold we are returning in repentance: And may it be the will before You, Hashem our L-rd and L-rd of our fathers, that You be filled with mercy upon us, and merit us to return to You in complete repentance, and save us from the evil inclination. And You, in the abundance of Your mercies, purify all that we have blemished, and rectify that which we have distorted, and gather that which we have scattered, and fill all the Names that we have blemished in them. Help us, L-rd of our salvation, on account of the glory of Your Name, and save us and atone for our sins for the sake of Your name. May they be for a desire the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart before You, Hashem my Rock and my Redeemer.

(6) And behold I remember the remembrance of the Manna that the Holy One, Blessed be He, fed our ancestors in the wilderness, as it is said (Deuteronomy 8:2) And you shall remember all the way which Hashem your L-rd led you these forty years in the wilderness, for the sake of afflicting you, to test you, to know that which is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. And He afflicted you and suffered you to hunger and fed you the Manna which you did not know and your fathers did not know, for the sake of making you know that not upon bread alone shall man live:

And may it be the will before You, Hashem our L-rd and L-rd of our fathers, that You be filled with mercy upon us, and just as You had mercy on our ancestors in the wilderness and Your Manna You did not withhold from their mouth, and they were free to engage in the Torah, so in Your abundant mercies save us from all trouble and from the hand of every layer-in-wait and enemy and from all illness, and we shall be free to engage in Your holy Torah. And You in the abundance of Your mercies grace and pity us, and give to us and to all the members of our house bread to eat and garment to wear, just as You gave a piece of bread to eat and garment to wear to Yaakov our father who is called a wholesome man, for You are the Almighty, the good, who feeds and provides and sustains in Your kindnesses to all Your creatures, as it is written, You open Your hand and satisfy for every living thing [with] its desire. And it is written, He gives bread to all flesh, and it is written, Good is Hashem to all, and His mercies are over all His works. And therefore may it be the will before You, Hashem our L-rd and L-rd of our fathers, that we and all the members of our house should be within the collective of mercy and kindness, that You give us our sustenance in fullness and in amplitude for merciful are You. May they be for a desire the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart before You, Hashem my Rock and my Redeemer.

(7) And behold I remember what the Holy One, Blessed be He, did to Miriam the prophetess, as it is said (Deuteronomy 24:9) Remember that which Hashem your L-rd did to Miriam on the way in your going out from Egypt.

Explanation (The Rambam, of blessed memory, end of the Laws of the Impurity of Tzara'at, Chapter 16, Halacha 10): Contemplate what happened to Miriam the prophetess who spoke against her brother, that she was greater than him in years, and raised him upon her knees, and endangered herself to save him from the sea, and she did not speak in his disparagement but erred in that she equated him to other prophets, and he did not mind, and even so she was immediately punished with Tzara'at: And therefore, fear and trembling shall come into us, over all that we have sinned, committed iniquity, and transgressed, and we spoke Lashon Hara against our fellows, and against those greater and better than us, and against the sages of Israel. Woe to us, alas for our soul, and we have damaged with the tongue also through falsehood and lie and mockery and hypocrisy, and we were from the collective of four groups that do not receive the face of the Shechinah. Over this was faint our heart, over these grew dark our eyes. And behold we regret with complete regret and return in repentance, and seek forgiveness and pardon and atonement over that which we acted foolishly and that which we sinned, committed iniquity, and transgressed: And may it be the will before You, Hashem our L-rd and L-rd of our fathers, that You pardon and forgive and atone for all our sins and our transgressions, and merit us to return to You in complete repentance, and merit us to guard our mouth and our tongue "in all things," "by all things," with "all things," , and it shall return to its original strength, and there shall not be banished from us a banished one. Amen, so may it be the will.

(8) And behold I fulfill the commandment of the remembrance of Amalek, as it is said (Deuteronomy 25:17) Remember that which Amalek did to you on the way in your going out from Egypt. Who happened upon you on the way and cut off at your rear all the stragglers behind you, and you were faint and weary, and he did not fear the L-rd. And it shall be when Hashem your L-rd gives rest to you from all your enemies from around in the land which Hashem your L-rd is giving to you for an inheritance to possess it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you shall not forget.

Master of the Universe. Our heart shall tremble and leap from its place. That, as it were, the Name is not complete and His throne is not complete until the remembrance of Amalek is blotted out; this has been several hundred years. Woe now to us for we have sinned, and behold in iniquity we were brought forth; It is profane for us, for our iniquities have turned these aside to delay the blotting out of Amalek; what shall we speak and what shall we justify ourselves, and with a broken and crushed heart we have come to entreat Your face. Please Hashem, do for the sake of Your great Name, and subdue and blot out the remembrance of Amalek, and destroy all remembrance of them. And Hashem for eternity shall sit, He has established for judgment His throne. Speedily in our days, Amen.

(9) And behold I fulfill a commandment to remember that Hashem saved our ancestors from Balak and Bilaam, as it is said (Micah 6:5) My nation, remember please what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Bilaam son of Beor answered him, from Shittim until Gilgal, for the sake of knowing the righteous acts of Hashem.

Master of the Universe. We give thanks to You for all the good things and the miracles and the wonders that You did with us and with our ancestors, and included within Your mercies that which You did wondrously for our ancestors in the wilderness and saved them from Balak and Bilaam, and frustrated their counsel and spoiled their thoughts, and You were not angry in those days. And it is written, And Hashem your L-rd turned for you the curse into a blessing because Hashem your L-rd loved you. And over all of them may Your name, our King, be blessed and exalted and lifted up continually always for eternity and ever. And all the living shall thank You, Selah:

And may it be the will before You, Hashem our L-rd and L-rd of our fathers, that You be filled with mercy upon us. May Your kindness, Hashem, be upon us, just as we hoped to You. And frustrate the counsel of our enemies, frustrate their counsel and spoil their thoughts, and return their recompense upon their head, and let not their hands achieve success. And deliver us and save us from all trouble, for in You we trusted, and in Your great kindness in truth we leaned, and in Your Name we were helped. The Good One, for Your mercies have not ended, and the Merciful One, for Your kindnesses have not finished, for from eternity we hoped to You. Spare and have mercy for Your name is called upon us. And fulfill for us what You promised us: And yet even this, in their being in the land of their enemies, I did not despise them and I did not loathe them to destroy them to break My covenant with them, for I am Hashem their L-rd. May they be for a desire the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart before You, Hashem my Rock and my Redeemer.

(10) Behold I remember Jerusalem, as it is said (Psalms 137:5) If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget. Let my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember you, if I do not bring up Jerusalem above the head of my joy.

And may it be the will before You, Hashem our L-rd and L-rd of our fathers, that You have mercy upon Jerusalem the holy city, the city which You chose, and upon Your sanctuary in Your abundant mercies. And fulfill for us what You promised us: The builder of Jerusalem is Hashem, the outcasts of Israel He shall gather. Our L-rd and L-rd of our fathers, merciful King have mercy upon us, good and beneficial be accessible for us, return upon us in the multitude of Your mercies, for the sake of fathers who did Your will, establish the house of Your sanctuary upon its foundation, show us in its building, make us rejoice in its restoration, and return Your Shechinah into its midst, and return priests to their service, and Levites to their song and to their music. Speedily in our days, Amen.

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