“Blessed are those whose path is simplicity, who walk in the Torah of the Lord”. I will behave wisely in a perfect, pure way. When will You come to me? I will walk with a pure heart within my house”. Let (my deeds of) purity and integrity protect me. I hope and wait for You”. As for me I will walk in my purity; redeem me and be merciful upon me”. Master of the World, full of mercy, whose deeds are perfect and who is pure and shows His purity with the pure. Have mercy upon me and let me merit to real purity and simplicity May I merit to really attach myself in purity and simplicity to the real tzaddikim, the pious and pure people in the generation who merited to serve real tzaddikim and to receive from them the path of truth and honesty. Grant me the merit to discard, remove and nullify all my wisdom, intellect and perception before them such that it is as if I have no intellect at all. Let me fulfill all that they say and anything they say let that be it! Let me not stray to the right or the left of what they say. Master of the Compassion, have mercy upon me and save me from all sorts of confusions, from all sorts of worldly wisdoms that are not true. Have mercy upon me and save me from them. Do not let my heart be delivered into their ways. Let me now stray from the words of the truly holy tzaddikim who lead us in mercy, in truth and purity according to the ways of the Torah that we received from the mouth of our teacher, Moses, may he rest in peace. Protect us and save us from all sorts of denial of faith and things that confuse our faith, which are the result of these alien wisdoms. Let me merit to really and truly enter into the paths of purity and simplicity in such a way that I merit to really perfect belief and to fulfill all Your Torah with love, truth, purity and simplicity all the days of my life.
“Let my heart be pure in Your statutes so that I will not be ashamed”. For “You are the Lord, G-d, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees and gave him the name Abraham. And found his heart to be faithful before You”. He walked before You in purity and simplicity, for he was the first of all the true, pure and honest believers who serve You in purity and simplicity, in truth and perfect belief. In his merit and the merit of all the true, pure tzadikkim, have mercy upon me and let me merit to begin now to go in Your ways, with purity and simplicity, with truth and perfect belief. Remove from my heart its stubbornness os that I will not lead my heart into foolishness, into paths of worthless wisdoms that are customary in the world, wisdoms that severely confuse and prevent us from thinking about our purpose in life, our final end and how to really com closer to You. Let me clear out and drive out from my heart all these wisdoms. May I really and truly know the immensity of my foolishness and how much I lack perception, as is written, “Surely I am more brutish than any man and haven’t the understanding of a man”. And it is written: “I was brutish and without knowledge: I was like a beast before You”. And, ”I said I will be wise; but it was far from me”. Have mercy upon me so that I will not mislead myself with any worldly wisdom which can confuse very much. Rather, may I merit to fulfill, with truth and purity, all that our true Sages say. Let me nullify my perception and intellect completely before them, as I have no intellect at all, which is really the truth. May I merit to fulfill the verse which says: “Lord, who will abide in Your Tabernacle and who will dwell on Your holy Mount? He who walks in purity (simplicity), performs righteousness and speaks the truth in his heart”.
May it be pleasing before You, Lord, our G-d and G-d of our Fathers, full of loving-kindness, who does much good, that, in Your bountiful compassion, You have mercy upon me. Show me, teach me and guide me in the ways of the real purity and simplicity, with perfect faith, without any worthless wisdoms at all. You know that we have no way to come close to You other than by complete purity and simplicity, with truth and perfect faith. I believe and understand from afar, that even in the depths of our descent at present, in the midst of the force of this bitter exile, in body and spirit, there are ways of purity and simplicity and faith. Every person, wherever he is (in terms of his spiritual level), can remove himself from his exile and descent by means of the pathways of purity and simplicity; he can find the straight way and correct advice, he can find You in every place, even he who has fallen to wherever he is fallen. Everyone can rise out of their fall and descent and can come close and attach themselves to You. They can please and appease You with purity and simplicity, with prayer, supplications, truth and perfect faith, for these You desire, as it says, “My eyes will be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a pure (simple) way, he will serve me”. And it says: “Blessed are those whose path is simplicity, who walk in the Torah of the Lord”. Let me merit to all that I have requested before You. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing before Your Countenance, O Lord, my Rock and Redeemer.
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When one speaks to G-d and explains oneself with claims and requests, wanting to be victorious over the Holy One, so to speak, so that He should fulfill one's request, G-d has pleasure and joy from this. Therefore, G-d sends such a person words to speak so he will be able to win G-d over. Without this it would certainly be impossible for a human of flesh and blood to be victorious over G-d. But G-d Himself helps him in this.
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Eating on Shabbat is very precious and holy; it is a mitzvah to have plenty of food on Shabbat, for eating is entirely Godliness, entirely holy. Therefore we must be very careful that it contains no element of or attachment to the weekdays. That's to say, one shouldn't eat simply because one is hungry from the day before or in order not to be hungry the day after for then one's eating contains a portion from the weekdays. Consequently one has to have in mind when eating on Shabbat that it is only for the sake of the holiness of Shabbat itself. This is an aspect of the three times it says "today" in the verses about eating on Shabbat, alluding to the need to eat only for the holiness of Shabbat and for the honour of the day itself.
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Immediately when Shabbat enters, because of the extra soul's great delight at Shabbat's arrival, we instantly start to pine for and regret the loss of this extra soul at the conclusion of Shabbat. This is an aspect of what we recite at the beginning of Shabbat – "Shabbat Vayinafesh" (Exodus 31:17) which the Sages said (Betza,15) means "Since Shabbat ends, 'vayi' ('woe') one loses the 'nefesh' (the soul)." This is like it brings in the Zohar that the time when the group of followers of Rabbi Shimon took great delight in the holiness of the revelations of Rabbi Shimon, they began to pine a great deal and said 'vayi'- woe- to the generation when he (Rabbi Shimon) passes away. This is exactly like the above regarding Shabbat.