Blessing as a Way of Life - Chapter 9 of Mishnah Berachot

If one sees a place where miracles have been done for Israel, one says, “Blessed be the One who made miracles for our ancestors in this place.” If one sees a place from which idolatry has been uprooted, one says, “Blessed be the One who removed idolatry from our land.”

On comets, on earthquakes, on lightning, on thunder, or on windstorms one says, “Blessed be the One whose strength and might fill the world.”

On mountains, on hills, on seas, on rivers or on deserts one says, “Blessed be the One who made creation.”

Rabbi Yehudah says: one who sees the Great Sea should say, “Blessed be the One who made the Great Sea,” if one sees it infrequently.

On rain and on good news one says, “Blessed be the One who is good and does good.” On bad news one says, “Blessed be the True Judge.”

One who has built a new house or bought new vessels says, “Blessed be the One who has kept us alive [and preserved us and brought us to this season.]”

One blesses over the evil just as one blesses over the good or over the good just as one blesses over evil.

One who cries out over the past, behold this is a prayer in vain. How ? If someone's wife was pregnant and he said, “May it be God's will that my wife bear a male child,” this is a prayer in vain. If someone is coming home from a journey and he hears a cry of distress in the town and says, “May it be God's will that this is not from those in my house,” this is a prayer in vain.

One who enters into a large city should say two prayers, one on entering and one on leaving. Ben Azzai says: four - two on entering and two on leaving, and one gives thanks for the past and cries out for the future.

One must bless on the evil just as one blesses on the good, as it says, “And you shall love the Eternal your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5). “With all your heart” - that is, with both your impulses, the evil impulse as well as the good impulse.

“With all your soul” even though he takes your soul [life] away from you. “With all your might” with all your money. Another explanation, “With all your might” whatever treatment he metes out to you. One should not show disrespect to the Eastern Gate, because it is in a direct line with the Holy of Holies. One should not enter the Temple Mount with a staff, or with shoes on, or with a wallet, or with dusty feet; nor should one make it a short cut, all the more spitting [is forbidden]. All the conclusions of blessings that were in the Temple they would say, “forever [lit. as long as the world is].” When the sectarians perverted their ways and said that there was only one world, they decreed that they should say, “for ever and ever [lit. from the end of the world to the end of the world]. They also decreed that a person should greet his fellow in God’s name, as it says, “And behold Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, ‘May the Eternal be with you.’ And they answered him, “May the Eternal bless you’” (Ruth 2:. And it also says, “The Eternal is with your, you valiant warrior” (Judges 6:12). And it also says, “And do not despise your mother when she grows old” (Proverbs 23:22). And it also says, “It is time to act on behalf of the Eternal, for they have violated Your teaching” (Psalms 119:126). Rabbi Natan says: [this means] “They have violated your teaching It is time to act on behalf of the Eternal.”