This is the day we have hoped for, we have found it and rejoiced in it.
With fear and trembling, with gratitude and wonder, I accept the Creator's commandment, "And you shall be very careful for your souls.".
I give thanks to You, God of all creation, Lord of all births, Who bestows knowledge upon man and teaches man understanding, for the interweaving of the hands of scientists and healers, and the knowledge of the four wings of the sea. Who unites the houses of medicine for medicines, healing, and vaccines, and who comes into them to engage in the improvement of the world.
I am grateful to you that we have lived and established and reached this time, a time of giving immunity to the virus. And renewed hope in your world. This will be a vaccine that I take today in full before you, and this will be my small contribution to preventing the spread of the epidemic in your land.
.It is our will that this vaccination will stop the plague and save the lives of thousands of millions in the world that you created and that the verse "and the plague will be stopped" will be fulfilled in our children, and that through this vaccination, our right hand will be renewed as before, and we will return to gathering and meeting in the houses of prayer, in the synagogues, in the houses of culture. And outside the city, and a man embraced his neighbor, as it is written: "And he brought them near to him, and kissed them, and embraced them.".
Heal us, O Lord, and we shall be healed; save us, and we shall be saved, for you have glorified us, for you are the God of kings, the faithful and merciful healer.
Blessed are you, O Lord, who, in communion with angels in human form, heals all flesh and works wonders.
Rabbi Esteban Gottfried
