A Collect for Virtue

Great Rabbi, whose life and teachings are water to parched throats, may the virtues that you teach and work in us build upon one another, virtue producing virtue, that we would grow increasingly toward your likeness, able and ready to do good whenever it is called for as you did on earth and yet perform from heaven, through you who stoops down to bless your children with the Father and Holy Spirit in great love. Amen.

'...and endurance produces character, and character produces hope...' - Rom. 5:4