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O Lord, our God and God of our fathers, may it be Your will to nullify all wars and all the spilling of blood from the world! Bestow a great, wonderful peace upon the world. “Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.” Rather, let them all recognise and know the absolute truth, that we haven’t come to This World for controversy and strife, Heaven forbid, and not for hatred, jealousy, provocation and the spilling of blood, Heaven forbid! We’ve only come to This World in order to acknowledge and know You, may you be blessed forever. So, have mercy upon us and fulfill the verse which says: “I will give peace in the land and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will rid evil beasts out of the land and neither will the sword pass through your land.”
In Your compassion, raise all the vapours from the earth for the good so that they turn into rain which brings blessing. Master of the Universe, have compassion on us; bless us with success from our efforts. Grant us an abundant living, with holiness and purity. Anything that we lack, bestow upon us before we come to need it. Guard and protect us always from taking loans for they bother and confuse the mind a great deal. From now on, please help us and save us; enable to pay back any debts we have already. Merciful One, Who bestows sustenance and a living to each person, let us never have to take loans from people.
So, merit me to be counted among the worthy students of the true tzaddikim for, in Your bountiful loving kindness, You have merited me to hear and receive much holy and awesome Torah from the mouth of tzaddikim. Have mercy upon all Jews and help us, through the holy Torah, to draw Your godliness to wherever we are. You love the Jewish people therefore You give permission to the true tzaddikim, through their Torah innovations, to draw Godliness into our brains and intellect. We can catch and capture You, so to speak, in our minds which is an aspect of ‘a king imprisoned in chains,’ an aspect of “you rose to the heights and took a captive.” For Your Name’s sake, help and save us, let the tzaddikim finish their work of rectifying us by revealing to us Your Godliness. Merit us to attach our minds to Your holy Torah, day and night, very firmly indeed so that we can draw down and grasp Your Godliness in our brains and minds, with great holiness and purity, with faith, fear, dread and awe.
Merit us, by all our Torah innovations, to always draw upon ourselves, and into our brains and intellect, our hearts, two hundred and forty-eight limbs and three hundred and sixty five sinews so that all our body becomes a vehicle for Your Devine Presence. Let me never step outside the realm of holiness even by a hairs breadth. Help me not to have extraneous thoughts, Heaven forbid, rather, let me cleave to You and Your holy Torah to such a degree that I can instill in others knowledge of the truth of Your Godliness. Enable me to instill in their brains, minds and hearts Your Godliness such that their eyes and hearts will open up to really feel the pleasantness of the Torah and the sweetness of Your radiance.
Let all the Jewish People come to recognise You very soon. Guard and protect us from teaching students who are not worthy for You know that we are only flesh and blood and don’t know how to take care and avoid this. Have compassion on the honour of Your holy Torah so that it won’t reach students who are not worthy and who shouldn’t receive it. Please have mercy on them and return them in repentance before You in such a way that they can receive the pleasantness of Your holy Torah. Prevent falsehood from having the power to cover over and hide the truth, Heaven forbid. Guard and protect us all the days of our life from the punishment of imprisonment and captivity. Have mercy over the Jewish People, especially over those who have already been captured or imprisoned; hastily, release them calmly, without harm, for You know their distress, pain and sorrow. They need immense mercy so extract from them darkness and death; break their chains and bring them into the light, into freedom. God, You release the imprisoned, so say to the imprisoned, ‘Leave!’ “As for me, may my prayer to You, God, be at an opportune time; O God, in Your abundant kindness, answer me with the truth of Your salvation.” “God will give might to His nation, God will bless His nation with peace.” Amen and Amen.
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The main perception of time stems from limited understanding. However much greater the intellect is, time becomes lessened accordingly. This is like a dream when the intellect departs leaving just the power of imagination. Then, in a quarter of an hour, all of the seventy years can pass, for it seems in a dream that several long periods pass in a few moments. Afterwards, when he wakes up and his intellect returns to him, then he sees with his intellect that all the times and years that passed in the dream were really only a few moments. Seventy years in reality are seventy years according to the person's intellect. So the truth is that in the sublime intellect which is far above ours, what we considered to have been seventy years in reality is also only a quarter of an hour or less, it's just we don't understand this. This is like in a dream; if someone were to come then and say that these years were only quarter of an hour, we wouldn't believe him. So too there is an intellect that is so sublime that all time is nullified entirely. Therefore Meshiach, who has experienced whatever happened to him since the day of the Creation of the World, and suffered whatever he suffered, after all this, in the end, the Holy One will say to him, "Today I have given birth to you" (Psalms,2:7). All this will be because of the tremendous and immense virtue of the intellect of Meshiach which will grow greatly. Therefore, all the time since the days of the Creation of the World will really be for him absolutely nothing and it will be actually as if he were born today.