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Master of the Universe, merit us to serve You and walk in Your paths of holiness only for the sake of Your glory and the holiness of Your Name and in order to know and recognize You, for this the main purpose. May we have no other intention in serving You other than to fulfill Your desire. Certainly we should have no intention in our service of gaining success in This World and it is also not correct to serve You in order to merit to the rewards of the World to Come. Rather, our only intention should be to fulfill Your desire and to know You – to behold the pleasantness of G-d and contemplate in His palace. Protect me from all evil cravings, especially from the craving for money. Let us have no desire, yearning or craving for money at all, not even to leave money to our offspring. Merit us to know and understand that even thought holy money is very lofty and is clothed with very sublime holiness nevertheless the money form the craving of This World is pure waste-matter. It is not enough for a person to chase after the waste-matter of money all his life, he even thinks to leave this filth as an inheritance to his sons.
Lengthen our days and years in goodness and pleasantness and merit us to serve You truly all of our life and let our merits remain for our children after us. Merit us sot that all our service of You will be genuine, not for the temporary success of This World and not for the hope of reward in the World to Come, not even to leave our merits to our children. Rather, may all our intention be only to serve You in order to fulfill Your desire, to know and recognize You, to behold the pleasantness of Your radiance, so to speak.
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(a) Sometimes the light of the tzaddik is very, very great such that it is impossible for the ordinary, small person to receive this great light of the tzaddik in the place where the tzaddik is because of the overwhelming light. Therefore, the tzaddik is forced to lower and subdue himself and to go to the place of the small person. In this way the light is reduced somewhat so that the small person can receive it. This is an aspect of "in the place of his greatness, there you find his humility".
(b) The main thing that the tzaddik has to shine into his students is to increase their understanding and remove them from petty thoughts, bringing them to profounder understanding; sometimes, to do this, he shines into them by the radiance of his face when he consoles them, and he shows them his laughing face. But sometimes they cannot receive his light by this so then he has to radiate into them by means of their suffering. He has to chastise them and insult them in order to nullify them and thus receive his light. This is an aspect of (what it says in the Zohar) "When the wood doesn't catch light, we hit it".
(c) The fact that the tzaddik has sometimes to lower himself and nullify himself somewhat from his greatness in order for the small person to receive, as mentioned, all this is only temporary; afterwards he returns to his true stature. However, by this, he rectifies and raises the small person entirely. There are many differences in the matter of the tzaddik lowering and subduing himself before the small person for the latter to be able to receive his light. Sometimes it is enough for him to make a superficial movement, but occasionally he has to go and travel to the small person. Each case is different.