Our eyes are open. We have gotten out of bed. The day has begun.

But are we fully awake?

HaMa’avir Sheinah seems to thank Hashem for removing sleep from our eyes. Yet the tefillah does not end there. It asks Hashem to help us enter the day with Torah, mitzvos, discipline, and the right influences.

Episode 64 explores a deeper kind of awakening: not only opening our eyes, but becoming conscious of the person we want to be before the day's pressures begin shaping us.

How can we take hold of the day before the day takes hold of us?