Translation:Mishnah/Seder Zeraim/Tractate Berakhot/Chapter 9/3/Translation
- When one builds a new house, and acquires new vessels, he says,
- “Blessed is he that kept us alive (and sustained us and brought us to this time).”
- Bless upon the bad which contains good, and upon the good which contains bad.
- He who prays over what has already happened, this prayer is in vain.
- How? If his wife was pregnant and he said,
- “May it be your will that my wife give birth to a boy."
- This prayer is in vain.
- If he came on the way and heard the sound of screaming in the city, and he said,
- “May it be your will that these are not the children of my house.”
- This is a prayer in vain.