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a) Every person has to say to himself that the entire world was created for my sake (Sanhedrin,37). Therefore each individual must look into and consider at all times how to rectify the world and provide whatever is missing and pray on their behalf.

b) A person has to perform each mitzvah with such great joy that he has no desire for any reward in the World to Come. Instead, all he wants is that the Holy One provide him with the opportunity to perform another mitzvah as a reward for the previous one, for he takes pleasure from the mitzvah itself. By achieving this level he can then know what has been decreed against the world and whether it is before the decree has been issued or after, and upon whom the decree has been issued, Heaven forbid. Then he knows how to pray for the world's sake, for, after the decree, the tzaddikim have to veil their prayers with stories. To all this we merit when we perform a mitzvah with great joy stemming from the mitzvah itself, as explained.

c) The essence of joy is in the heart but it is impossible for the heart to rejoice unless a person removes the crookedness which is in his heart so that he will have a straight heart. Then he will achieve true joy. The crookedness in the heart is straightened by thunder which corresponds to prayer recited strongly, with fear and love of G-d and with great concentration.

d) To merit to this joy is by means of praying powerfully and with great fear and love.

e) A person has to pray with all his strength, releasing his voice in prayer with great power. By this his voice will strike his brain and then he will be able to concentrate while praying. In other words, his heart will hear what he says and through this he will merit to straighten the crookedness in his heart such that he achieves real joy. Then he will perform the mitzvoth with great happiness just from the mitzvah itself. As a result he will merit to be able to veil his prayer in tales of events and thus nullify all the harsh decrees even after they have already been issued.

f) Whoever hears the blowing of a shofar on Rosh Hashana from a man who is G-d fearing and pious will certainly not be afraid of thunder throughout the year.

g) To merit to achieve this aspect of thunder perfectly, one has to clear the mind from all kinds of secular wisdoms, extraneous and undesirable thoughts.

h) One has to be very careful to clear the mind from secular wisdoms and undesirable thoughts – of 'chametz' (sour thoughts). He mustn't sour his wisdom with unholy wisdom and physical cravings for they stupefy and cause impurity to the mind such that it becomes impossible for him to concentrate while praying or to be happy.

He also has to guard himself against worldly fears so that he won't be afraid of anything other than G-d alone. As a result of worldly fears it is impossible to concentrate while praying and it prevents joy. The main thing is to guard the mind so it shouldn't become sour and think about undesirable things and physical cravings, for they are like 'chametz'; they are from the realm of death. You have to be angry at these thoughts which are from the side of death, the realm of evil, and to drive them out of your mind and your thoughts so that they won't approach you. You have to guard yourself a lot so that these thoughts won't enter your mind, Heaven forbid.

You also have to combine love and fear of G-d, for only then will you be able to purify your mind and pray with great concentration with all your strength so that it will be like thunder. By this you can achieve happiness.

i) A Jew has to guard himself from worldly fears so that no fear in the world will affect him. Rather, when some fear or fright comes upon him, he has to remember at once fear of G-d and His great awesomeness. You have envelope yourself in fear of G-d constantly, throughout the whole day. As a result you will be able to pray with all your strength and recite the words out loud with great power such that it will be like thunder. Then you will be able to hear clearly (in your heart) what you speak out. By this you will achieve joy, to perform all the mitzvoth with great happiness just from the mitzvah itself. This will enable you to know how to nullify any harsh decrees, even after they have been issued, G-d forbid.

j) You have to combine love and fear of G-d in order to merit to all the above, for the main form of strengthening yourself is through love of G-d. Even so, you have to start with fear of G-d.

k) Someone who wants to have compassion on himself on himself has to strengthen himself so he won't hear or take notice of any arguments between the true tzaddikim, rather, he must believe in them all. On the contrary, when he hears arguments between the tzaddikim he has to learn about himself and look at where he is in the world spiritually. Hearing these arguments comes to rebuke you for having blemished the drops in your mind. For it is certain that if you hadn't blemished your mind, you wouldn't have heard these arguments between the tzaddikim and you wouldn't have had doubts about them in your heart. The main purpose of these arguments is only for you, in order that you understand and remember this, where you are in the world; the powers of evil are trying to drive you away from the true life, the true tzaddikim. Hearing the argument is because you have blemished the drops of your mind about which it says, "None that go to her return; nor do they regain the paths of life." (Proverbs,2,19). If someone is foolish and doesn't understand this, then he will really be distanced, thus losing his world. However, someone who really wants to have mercy on himself through this specifically will be awakened spiritually and ask himself where he is in the world. He will understand that this is a test for him which he has to stand up to by not hearing or thinking about that argument. He has to come closer to the true tzaddikim as a result. This will be his main rectification for all eternity…for really he deserves to be distanced because he blemished his mind; he blemished so much it would be impossible to approach (tzaddikim and the realm of holiness) other than by this test specifically. The truth is that the Holy One desires to show loving kindness and wants to bring close those who were far away, even though they don't deserve it. That is why they have to undergo this test.

l) The extraneous and undesirable thoughts are from the side of death, like chametz and they chase after a person's mind in order to enter it. So, you have to rebuke them and argue with them so as to keep them out of the mind. By this you are saved from chametz and the realm of death and you acquire expanded intellect, which is an aspect of matza and true life. (Now it becomes obvious that through the commandments of nullifying chametz and eating matza during Pesach, we merit to all of the above.)

m) The controversy between the real tzaddikim is also only for this purpose, to drive away the side of evil to prevent it from coming into the realm of holiness. Therefore, this controversy between them is an aspect of 'matza' (meaning 'argument').

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Help and save us; merit us to really perfect faith; Father in Heaven, save us from any blemish to faith. In Your bountiful compassion guard and save us from wondrous illnesses, that defy all cures, caused by the lack of faith. Even all the voices of prayer and groaning do not help, Heaven save us. Everything is blemished and spoilt by the deficiencies in holy belief which is the foundation of the entire Torah and all the worlds.

Please, Awesome and Holy One, You are full of mercy, so merit us to shout out to You in truth from the depths of our hearts, from the deepest depths, when we need to call out to You. Help us to cry out in such a way that we arouse upon ourselves the wonders of Your mercy and loving-kindness, You wonderful and awesome graciousness and salvation. Then merit us to arouse and uncover true advice, deep advice from the depths of the darkness in which we are trapped because of our many, sins. Reveal to us and bestow upon us advice from far away so that we can increase our holy belief. Grant us good advice; save us and all Jews from doubts and confusion. Rather, may we always merit to complete advice, speedily and easily, true advice, as You desire in such a sway that we have true, eternal success, physically and spiritually, in body, soul and money. In this ephemeral world advise us how to follow Your paths of goodness which will bring us closer to You.

In the merit and strength of the true tzaddikim, enable us to draw down spirituality of godliness and constrict it into vessels. Through our holy deeds, merit us to create holy bodies that will be proper vessels to, collect within them this holy, spiritual godliness as You desire, with great holiness. In Your great mercy, grant us a plentiful income before we need it, in an easy, permissible, honourable way, without anguish. Let us not come to taking loans from people. Save us from debts. Please G-d, help us, provide for us an income for we have no-one upon whom to rely and we know no way to attract an income for ourselves. Therefore, we caste our prayers upon You, Father in Heaven and ask that You grant us all that we lack. Bestow upon us great bounty before we need it, with great holiness and purity, without great efforts and confusions in such a sway that we can return to You with complete repentance. Merit us to eat with great holiness and purity just enough to sustain the body, without physical cravings. Let us make do with only a little food. By this, include us among the tzaddikim who eat only to nourish their souls. Merit us, as a result, to refine and polish our souls until we take delight in G-d and in the sublime lights in the World Above.

Merit us to raise the fallen belief and rectify all the blemishes to holy belief. Help us to believe in You and in all the true tzaddikim with a really firm, genuine belief, without any confusions, musings or extraneous thoughts. By this, merit us to draw down a complete recover to all sick Jews (especially so and so….). Please heal them both in soul and body. Nullify and remove all the wondrous illnesses and faithful illnesses from upon any Jew in the world. Send a complete cure from Heaven to all those Jews whom You have already inflicted with these wondrous illness that know no remedy because of blemished faith. Please G-d, have mercy on them and on us, for Your sake; have mercy for Your sake alone. You alone know how much we need Your mercy. Please grow plants and grasses so that they will have the power to cure Jews who are sick. Merit each person to eat or drink what he needs for his cure, even without his realizing. Give each person his food at the appropriate time in such a say that it contains within it the power to cure bodily and spiritually. No doctor in the world knows how to match the strength of the cure to that of the illness. Only You know, for You are the Cause of all Causes.

Help us and give us the power to strengthen and increase holy faith in such a forceful way that all the false beliefs in the world will be nullified and destroyed. They will all fall and give honour to Your holy, precious Name. As a result, let many converts continually join Your Nation, the Jewish People. Help these righteous converts to purify themselves from their previous contamination and filth. Guard us and save us from any of that impurity becoming attached to us, especially from pride and self-importance. Merit us, to real and true humility so that I really feel my own lowliness. Father in Heaven, Merciful Father, protect us from the sword of pride of the false leaders of the generation who ascribe greatness to themselves. This greatness was not designated from Heaven at all. They pride themselves for no reason as leaders over the Jewish People.

Master of the Universe, save us from these false leaders; they are just damagers. Let them have no power to damage us, Heaven forbid, in any way at all, not materially or spiritually. Father in Heaved, we have only You to rely on, so subdue, uproot and nullify their authority. Take the sword of pride from their hands; remove falsehood from the world and reveal the truth.

Merciful One, Holy and Awesome G-d, our G-d and G-d of our Fathers, may it find favour before You to bestow upon us Your sublime holiness. Help us to subdue and break our evil urge so that we serve only You. Let us break our physical lusts entirely, especially the craving for sex. Provide for us guardians of the land; the true tzaddikim, who will guard us and nullify from us this evil lust, until we break and nullify the seal of the husks. By this, enable us to rectify the seal of holiness to merit to holy brains, such that my brains sparkle with ever increasing wisdom and understanding in great holiness. Bestow upon us the holiness of tefillin from their source. They are the sparks of the holy brains within holy vessels, according to the virtue and spiritual level of each individual.

So, may it find favour before You, G-d our G-d and G-d of our Fathers, that You have mercy upon us and merit us to holy dreams, dreams through a holy angel, true dreams, without any bad or frightening dreams. Save me from vain dreams, dreams through a demon. Let me purify my power of imagination so much that even when I sleep there remains a big impression of my holy brains which is an aspect of an angel. Merit me to calming, good, true dreams. May my mind be so attached to You, Your Torah and tzaddikim that I merit to see the light of the face of tzaddikim in dreams and to hear words of the living G-d from them. And when I awake, merit me to remember all the holy things I saw or heard in my dream.

Furthermore, help us and save us so that all our foods and drinks will be very pure and refined, without any dross at all, that is to say from any mixture from the demons. Then, let our eating always be in great, happiness and holiness. By this may we give strength to holy angels; then they will bestow upon us plenty and a good income without holding it back or allowing the demons to grasp it. Merit us to sanctify our thoughts so that we are always happy. As a result, save us from the contamination of a nocturnal emission and enable us to break the craving for sex. Draw upon us the holiness of the brains of the protectors of the land, Moshe and Seven Shepherds. Thus, draw upon us the holiness of tefillin from their holy source.

Help us to attract upon ourselves and upon all Israel the holiness of the month of Nissan, the first of the months of the year. Just as in this month, You took Your Nation, Israel, our of the exile of Egypt, called “nakedness of the land”, which is the aspect of blemishing of the brit, so, in Your bountiful mercy, save us and redeem us in every generation, in every year, every single soul of Your Nation, Israel. Save us all in the strength of the holiness of this month, the first of the months of the year, in the holy month of Nissan, the month of the salvation and redemption of the soul; save and redeem our souls very soon from the pit, from the clinging mire; extract us from the depths of the sea.

Save our very miserable souls from a nocturnal emission. Heaven forbid, so that we never stumble in this iniquity, neither ourselves nor our descendants nor the descendants of Your Nation, the House of Israel, from now on and forever whether unintentionally or on purpose, by force of circumstance or from free will. Our Father, our King, take pity and have mercy upon us. Our Father, our King, have compassion on our babies and children. Help us to draw the holiness and happiness of Nissan to all the days of the year.

Let us merit to always be happy, to always bring laughter, happiness, power and joy to all the holy angels. Let there be honour and majesty before them, power and joy in their place throughout all the year, just as in the month of Nissan. May we merit always to give strength and force to the holy angels by our happiness. May the holy angels be strengthened with tremendous power. Let the power of evil sprits and husks be nullified and let them not sap from the holy bounty that descends to us such that we merit to have refined foods and drinks and by this, merit to be saved from the impurity of a nocturnal emission, Heaven forbid. Let us always be holy and pure.

Merciful One, have mercy on us, guard and save us, together with all the Jewish People from rabbis and judges who are not upright in their deeds. You know the damage they cause us because of our iniquities. We lack the strength to subdue them. So, please, have mercy on us, King of Justice, merit us to holy judgement. Save us from those rabbis and judges who spoil judgement. They spoil the sublime seat of judgment where holy love dwells. This causes the attribute of love to fall into the physical world and can turn into the lust for sex which, in turn leads to the defilement of a nocturnal emission. Therefore, please save us from this, merit us to separate holy love and elevate it returning to its source in holiness.

Merit us to rectify judgment perfectly with great holiness and purity. Be with us constantly. Guard us against any blemish to the tefillin and brain. Let no bad dampness or oil in the body rise to the brain for they are an aspect of the droplets from Esav and Yishmael. Rather, merit us to a complete rectification of all the fallen aspects of love. May we rectify holy love by taking upon ourselves with love the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Help us to receive the holy and awesome Rosh HasShana with great holiness and purity. As a result, merit us to really perfect faith. Let us gather together all the parts of the sparks of holy belief by means of the holy gathering of many Jews on Rosh HaShana. By this merit us to rectify holy brains. Help us to draw upon ourselves in great holiness all the five senses that stem from the brain. Draw great holiness upon our senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch from their sublime, holy source in holiness. Bestow upon us Your Divine Providence throughout the entire year and let us perform many mitzvot so that You can taste them on Rosh HaShana. Stretch out Your arm to receive those who repent. Return us in complete repentance before You.

Have mercy on us; help us to repent even further during the ten days of repentance. Merit us to rectify during these ten days all that we have sinned and blemished throughout the entire year, especially with regard to blemishes of the brit. Please have compassion on us so that we can sanctify ourselves with great and awesome holiness during these ten days of repentance. You gave us these days as a gift at the beginning of the year so that we have the power to really, repent perfectly before You. Therefore, please don’t let us lose this precious gift, Heaven forbid. Merit us to guard these holy days properly so that they remain without blemish. By this, we can rectify and perfect the seal of holiness. Then help us to receive and take upon ourselves the awesome and holy fast Day of Atonement with great holiness and purity, in the utmost perfection. Merit us to cry with joy in Your great Name and to confess before You all sorts of confessions while detailing all our sins, iniquities and wilful sins. May we feel real regret from the depths of our hearts such that we leave these bad deeds behind us completely. In Your great compassion pardon, forgive and atone for us all our sins and let us rectify all the seals of holiness.

Merit us to receive the festival of Succot with great holiness, purity and immense joy for the sake of Your great and holy Name. Let us be very happy during Succot, the time of our joy. Merit us to perform the mitzvah of sitting in a Succah and of shaking the four species of the lulav with great joy and perfection with all their details and intentions. By this, let us give strength to the holy angel. As a result, merit us to dream through the power of an angel and by refined, pure foods such that all our dreams are for the good.

And in the merit of the holiness of Sh’mini Atzeret, help us to rectify holy judgment. Through this, save us always from any blemish to the brit or nocturnal emission, Heaven forbid. Protect us from the rabbis and judges who are not worthy. Nullify their authority from the world and grant us the rabbis and judges who will judge with utter truth. Have mercy, for Your Name’s sake. Fulfill all our wishes for the good. Therefore, grant us a genuine tzaddik and leader. Help us to come close to true tzaddikim who have yeshivas with very honourable, kosher students. By these gatherings of students of true tzaddikim may we gather and rectify all the pieces of holy belief that have fallen.

So, Merciful Father, have mercy upon us so that we merit to serve You always with truth and simplicity without any cleverness at all. Help us to discard all cleverness in order to serve You in holiness. Merit us to caste ourselves into all kinds of clay and garbage for the sake of performing Your holy mitzvoth. Even for a simple easy thing which You really desire let us throw ourselves and roll into all kinds of filth just in order to give You pleasure. Thus may we perform all the mitzvoth, with great strength and real self-sacrifice.

In Your bountiful mercy, fulfill all our wishes for the good. Draw and radiate upon us all these rectifications in a perfect way, whether we have mentioned them or not. Merit is very speedily to serve You in truth and with perfect faith, with great joy and genuine humility, as You desire, from now on and for always.

Amen, Sela.

6. BY GOOD PERSPIRATION

By perspiring for the sake of something in holiness, one merits to joy and also to be cured.