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How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, your habitations, O Israel!

By thy abundant grace I enter thy house; I worship before thy holy shrine with reverence. O Lord, I love thy abode, the place where thy glory dwells. I will worship and bow down; I will bend the knee before the Lord my Maker. I offer my prayer to thee, O Lord, at a time of grace. O God, in thy abundant kindness, answer me with thy saving truth.

Bless the Lord, O my soul! Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art robed in glory and majesty. Thou wrappest thyself in light as in a garment; thou spreadest the heavens like a curtain.

I am enwrapping myself in the fringed garment in order to fulfill the command of my Creator, as it is written in the Torah: “They shall make fringes for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations.” Even as I cover myself with the tallith in this world, so may my soul deserve to be robed in a beautiful garment in the world to come, in Paradise. Amen.