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Master of Peace, King of Peace, bless us with peace. Bestow upon me and all my household a good life and peace. Save us from poverty. Master of the Universe, have compassion on us and upon all Jews. Protect and save us from arguments and controversy. You know how hateful controversy is and how great peace is. Teach me how to behave towards all other people so that I can always be at peace with them all, even with those who oppose me. Grant me true advice in my heart, as You desire so that I can know how to behave towards other people without there being any controversy. Rather merit me to always love peace and really pursue it. Have mercy on us; protect us, so that no controversy will cause a famous rabbi to be publicized before the proper time. You taught us the great blemish and loss which results, Heaven forbid, from this.
Please defend and guard us always so that no Jew is made famous before his time. Rather let each individual progress on his holy path of truth, travelling and walking days and years with all his heart, adding holiness, purity and wonderful spiritual arousal, as is fitting. Merit us to take our time and tarry along the way to holiness as is needed. By this, may we gradually warm up our holy enthusiasm, as is fitting, until the proper time arrives to reveal, announce and publicise this holy path in the world, each person according to his portion in the holy Torah which stems from the source of his neshama. Let all the profound advice of the true tzaddikim and all their wonderful and original ways become revealed and enlighten the world. Protect and save us from all kinds of damage, distress and suffering, Heaven forbid, which are a result of this premature fame. As a result, merit us all, with our offspring, until the end of generations, to come close to You, really and truly, following the holy paths of the tzaddikim.
Save us from poverty and hard times. In Your bountiful mercy, grant each one of us a good living and all our needs in a plentiful manner, before it becomes necessary. Let his bounty come with ease, without distress, in a permissible way, in an honourable way. Always shield us so that no controversy will cause a woman to miscarry, Heaven forbid. Furthermore, let no damage be caused to the holy pathway itself which the tzaddikim need to reveal in the world frequently and let no harm befall those who come to reveal the pathway. May no woman have a miscarriage (especially so and so…). Please don’t desert us in such an impoverished generation as this, Send us genuine leaders who will be worthy guides, as You really desire. Let no the community of G-d be like a flock without a shepherd. Have compassion and mercy upon us, Merciful One. Show me, G-d, Your holy paths. I desire the pathways of Your mitzvot. He Who makes peace in the Heavens, please make peace dwell upon and all the Jewish People. And say, Amen .
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A person should learn halachic decisions both before and after creating Torah innovations.
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About humility the public are mistaken a lot. One needs great understanding to know how to be humble. Not every person can be humble properly; only Moshe could be humbler than any man. The Sages called improper humility, flattery (Sotah, 41B. See there).
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When a person is happy, then the depression and suffering are pushed aside. But it is even a greater virtue to strive to deliberately chase after the depression and turn it into happiness, like someone who enters the joy when, because of the intensity of the joy and happiness, he turns all his worries and sadness and depressions into joy. The understanding of the wise person makes it easy for him to find some relief even within all the troubles and suffering and worries so that he will be able to turn all the depression into happiness. This is the main perfection of happiness.