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birkhot ha-shahar
is the name of a whole section of the morning service. It is also a set of (traditionally) fifteen that were first described in a passage in the Talmud. The Talmud doesn’t give a fixed order for these blessings, but rather gives a series of events and reactions. For example, When one opens one’s eyes one should say ‘Blessed is The One Who gives sight to the blind’. One takes the experience of opening one’s eyes for the first time in a morning as an opportunity. Opening one’s eyes is something everyone does every day. Adding a blessing connects God to that common action. The blessing literally says, “God lets the blind see.” But there is a secondary meaning. In certain ways we are all blind. There are things we should see that we don’t see. Opening our eyes physically reminds us of opening of our eyes spiritually. So it is with each of the .
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