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Priestly Blessing or Birchas Cohanim In Jewish prayer books, when the Priestly blessings or Birchas Kohanim are recited by the Priests known as Cohanim, one is supposed to say a special prayer as noted in Talmud Berachos 55B. The prayer says the following, "Master of the Universe, I am yours and my dreams are yours.....strengthen them, make them endure in me like the dreams of the righteous Joseph." This prayer was noted by people thousands of years ago. The sages of Israel noted that if one had a dream and was unsure of it, he would go to the Holy Temple where the Priests would bless the nation and he would say the above prayer. We see a numerological allusion to this amazing connection between dreams and priests straight from the Bible. The source of the priestly blessings comes from Leviticus 9:22, where it says,   Vayisah Aharon es Yadav el ha'am, va'yivar'cheim, And Aharon lifted his hands to the nation and he blessed them. The gematria of this phr