Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk (1717-1786) explains that a kohen at the time of the priestly blessing is on the spiritual level of prophecy. The question however is: what is the connection between dreams and the priestly blessing? May it be Your will to bestow peace on us.” 4 “Mighty One on high, abiding in power, You are peace and Your name is Peace. He should conclude his prayer along with the priests, so that the congregation may answer, “ Amen!” If he cannot manage this, he should say: As you have changed the curse of the wicked Balaam into a blessing, so too, change all my dreams into something good for me.” Whether I have dreamt about myself, or my companions have dreamt about me, or I have dreamt about others, if they are good dreams, confirm them and reinforce them like the dreams of Joseph, and if they require a remedy, heal them, as the waters of Marah were healed by Moses, our teacher, and as Miriam was healed of her leprosy and Hezekiah of his sickness, and the waters of Jericho by Elisha. I have dreamt a dream and I do not know what it is. “Master of the Universe, I am Yours and my dreams are Yours. If one has seen a dream and does not remember what he saw, let him stand before the priests at the time when they spread out their hands, and say as follows: Nevertheless, our sages in the Talmud say that one who is concerned about a dream and “unsure” 3 about it should pray to transform it during the priestly blessing. In fact, getting all riled up about a bad dream is sometimes exactly what our evil inclination wants: to make us depressed so that we will find it difficult to continue on with our daily routine and the good we do. It is for this reason that the best remedy for a bad dream is to totally ignore it.
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Only those who are extremely pious, with every moment of the day spent in divine service, can be sure that even in dreams-when one does not have full control over one’s faculties-there is significance and meaning. I remember hearing that in Judaism dreams are meaningless, so why the prayer? Even if they do have meaning, why pray for them specifically during the holidays?įor the most part dreams are meaningless they are either the result of our thoughts during the day, some stressful situation we have been in, or overeating. During the recent Jewish holidays, I noticed that when the priestly blessing, the birkat kohanim, is being sung, the congregation says a prayer to “transform” their bad dreams into good dreams.
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