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Worker of miracles and wonders in every generation, who fights our fights, who judges our judgements, who takes revenge for us, who pays back all our souls’ enemies and who separates us from our troubles, may it be Your will, O Lord, our God and God of our fathers, that, in Your bountiful compassion, You have mercy upon us and, in Your salvation and awesome wonders, help us to welcome and fulfill the holy days of Purim in their appointed time, as is fitting. May we merit to fulfill all the holy commandments that are customary on Purim, with great holiness and purity, with happiness and good—heartedness, with tremendously great rejoicing, song, joy and gaiety. Let us fulfill them in all their details, exactitude and intentions and the 613 commandments that are dependent on them.
Master of the World, You have already revealed to us that all the miracles and wonders which You performed for our forefathers and because of which the holy Festivals were established — these miracles are performed, revealed and radiate in every generation, in every person, at all times. We need to attract the holiness of Purim and the holiness of all the Festivals and the radiance of the miracles and wonders that were done then and in every single year, in every generation and in every individual specifically. Therefore I have come before You, You who perform miracles and wonders in every single generation, every day, every period of the day, and every hour; teach me, show me, grant me the merit of the really perfect happiness of Purim. Let me merit to rejoice very, very much, with all my heart and soul, on the holy days of Purim, with a boundless happiness such that I merit by the happiness and holiness of Purim to draw upon myself and upon all Israel the holiness and purity which stems from the red-heifer which purifies from the uncleanliness of the dead. You commanded us to engage in reading this portion of the Torah which refers to the red-heifer, after Purim. You revealed to us that by Purim one merits to the purity of the red-heifer in order that we merit to be pure and to accept the holiness of the Pesach sacrifice in its appointed time.
Master of the World, You know that because of our immense decline and fall into the depths of this bitter exile and the tremendous multiplicity of troubles that happen to each and every Jew, myself in particular, and the incredibly great depths of the sea that sweep over me and pursue me very, very much from all sides, I am in great trouble, very, very great distress beyond measure or estimation. I don’t know of any opening of hope to rectify or escape all this. Therefore for all these things I now need wonderful miracles and great, awesome acts of deliverance, just as You performed for the community of Israel in previous generations, wonderful and awesome miracles, such as in the days of Mordechai and Esther when the evil Haman, may his name and memory be wiped out, stood up against them etc. This miracle of Purim was greater than all the miracles You ever performed for us, as You revealed to us by Your holy Sages, may their memory be blessed, who said that in the future all the Festivals will be cancelled apart from Purim. Originally, all the beginnings were from Pesach, for all the Festivals are a remembrance of the leaving of Egypt, but now...
Master of the World, Master of all the World, Master of wonders who sows the seeds of salvation, You know the truth, that the main miracle of all the miracles and wonders which You performed for us when leaving Egypt and in the war against Amalek in the days of Moses and in the days of Mordechai and Esther, and all the miracles and wonders that You performed for us in the days of Channuka, and in every generation, the principal miracle of them all is the salvation of the soul. For the primary jealousy and hate of all our troublemakers and persecutors, materially and spiritually, is only because we believe in You, O Lord, our God, and yearn to go in Your holy paths and to fulfill Your awesome commandments and to reveal and publicise the truth of faith in Your Divinity, Your supervision and dominion over the world. Only because of this, more than one nation has stood against us to destroy us; in every generation they stand against us to destroy us but the Holy One saves us from their hands. Therefore the primary miracle and salvation from all the troubles is that You express Your vengeance and You perform miracles and wonders in order that the Torah and commandments can continue to exist, that they shouldn’t be nullified from the world, Heaven forbid, as the haters and deniers want, may their names be wiped out. All of them are from the side of Haman and Amalek, may his name be wiped out.
Now what can I say before You who sit in the Heavens? What can I tell You who dwells in the skies? After all these miracles and wonders, I myself persecute myself more than all the haters, for I haven’t overcome my desires, and I’ve even drawn upon myself the evil desire. I’ve done what I’ve done such that I’ve actually brought upon myself these troubles and this distress. They are more difficult and bitter than all the troubles for there is no distress as bad as that of the soul. The greatest compassion that there is, is to extract a Jewish soul from iniquities and blemishes.
Master of the World, Eternal One, O true Lord, God, You alone know how far these things extend, for truthfully I am ignorant. I don’t know the power of the miracle of Purim, materially or spiritually, and I especially don’t know how to merit to draw upon myself the power of this miracle and salvation. You alone know everything. You allude to me from afar, by various sparks and countless signs, to come closer to You at all times. As for myself, because of my immense stubbornness, I still haven’t turned back from my mistake, but, in my bitter affliction, I find comfort in the fact that I am still determined to speak like this before You, that I utter to You from the dust and still hope for Your compassion and salvation.
Master of the World, You alone know the power of the miracle that was in the days of Mordechai and Esther when they merited to be victorious in the war against Haman and Amalek and to wipe out their name and memory from the world and how they merited, by this, to draw a wonderful radiance and awesome salvation to each generation. Only You know how, now, all our life-force and hope to escape our exile in body and soul, is only by the power of this miracle. We stand out and wait for Your salvation. Just like You helped them then to subdue and break the husk of Haman-Amalek, to uproot, nullify and subdue his great poison and to reveal faith in Your Providence in the world, to return, fulfill and accept anew the holiness of Your holy Torah — so, stand up for us in every single generation until You are victorious in the war completely and utterly, wiping out the memory of Amalek and removing the spirit of impurity from the land. Really return us to You and extract us very quickly from out of this bitter exile. Therefore, Lord of wonders, I have come before You to ask that You take heed of and feel the great distress we experience, Behold our affliction and labour. Don’t look at our bad deeds. Perform for us wonderful and awesome miracles, miracles of Purim, such that things turn out for the good and that we merit to return to You very speedily indeed in our lifetime. Let us never go back to foolishness.
Master of the World, living God, King of the World, who revives the living, have mercy upon us and revive us, give us existence, sanctify us, and purify us from the uncleanliness of the dead, which is the most severe impurity of all and which corresponds to thoughts of sexual desire that have become stronger and spread very much in the world such that we’ve drowned in the mire of the depths of the sea where it’s impossible to stand. I've come into deep waters where the floods overflow us." Through the strength of the holiness of the commandment of Purim, let us merit to accept and draw upon ourselves the holiness and purity of the pure red-heifer, to really purify ourselves, in This World and the World to Come, from the impurity of the dead.
You, who are full of mercy, help us and save us in order to fulfill the commandment of Purim with holiness and such great happiness that we merit to really be careful from even the smallest quantity of chametz (leavened bread) during Pesach. Let us fulfill all the awesome commandments of Pesach in great holiness and awesome and immense happiness. Have mercy upon us for Your Name's sake. Let us merit, in Your mercy, to impress our wishes upon You. Help us and save us according to this lesson to really return quickly to You. Save us by the power of the holiness of the miracle and wonderful salvation of Purim so that we merit to change completely from evil to good and let us get out of the sorrow and darkness and reach happiness and great light.
Help us and save us so that we can fast on the Fast of Esther, before Purim, with great holiness. Let us say the supplication in great devotion, crying out and shouting to You very much. Open my heart so that I merit to really feel the pain of my iniquities and the immensity of my distress which is beyond measure, such that I merit to shout out very strongly and bitterly, as is fitting for me to shout according to the multiplicity of my iniquities, my immense wilful transgressions and very, very great blemishes. Let me shout out to You until Your compassion is really aroused upon me. Speedily save me and redeem me from myself. Make me walk in Your statutes and heed Your commandments really whole-heartedly. My Father, my King. my Maker, my Creator, show me the way how to start from the aspect of the holiness of Purim, as You alluded to us by Your holy sages. Help us by way of a miracle and a wonderful, awesome salvation, by way of a wonderful and awesome innovation, in such a way that I merit from now on to return to You in really perfect repentance. May I merit to start anew, to really and whole-heartedly make a perfectly new beginning, with all my heart and soul, in truly serving You. Truly show me and teach me from where to start, in what way and by what advice I may merit to really return to You.
Master of the World, "Great in counsel and mighty in deed," "direct us aright with good counsel from before You, and save us speedily for Your Name’s sake,” such that from now I merit to really perfect repentance all the days of my life. Let me not stray from Your will, either to the right or the left. Let me merit to learn, teach, heed, do and fulfill all the words of Your Torah with love and to carry out all the commandments and all the things concerned with holiness, to do each thing at its appointed time and on time. Let me do it well at its proper time, with great holiness and purity. Strengthen me at all times in happiness and joy and may I merit, in the merit of the strength of the true tzaddikim, to drive out and nullify from myself and from all Israel, the husk of Haman—Amalek, may his name be wiped out. Let me draw upon myself the holiness of the miracle and salvation of Purim. Have mercy upon us in every generation, in every year, that we merit to rejoice very, very much during the days of Purim with great happiness and incredibly great joy. Let us merit to fulfill the commandments of reading the Scroll of Esther with great holiness and purity, with phenominally great happiness. Let us consider the greatness of the immensity of the wonderful miracle and this awesome salvation and may we publicize this miracle before all people and assembly. May we merit to fulfill the commandment of becoming drunk on Purim, as the Sages of blessed memory commanded us. Help us and protect us so that the drinking and drunkenness of Purim shouldn’t harm us at all, neither physically nor spiritually, and that we shouldn’t harm anybody or anything by our drunkenness. Rather, let us merit by the drunkenness of Purim to reach great happiness and phenominally great joy, to reach the happiness of Purim when the immense and wonderful radiance of Mordechai shines out, a radiance unequalled throughout the year. Let me merit to be happy and good-hearted, to gladded other people also, to gladden all Your Nation, Israel, with the happiness of Purim, with very, very great joy indeed.
We will rejoice and be glad in Your salvation with true happiness in such a way that You have contentment and satisfaction, such that You get great delight from our drinking and happiness on the holy day(s) of Purim. May we merit also now, every year, to the great miracle and wonderful salvation of Purim so that we can drive out, uproot and nullify from ourselves the husk of Haman—Ama1ek and his great poison. Let us wipe out his name and memory from the world. Let us purify ourselves from his poison and so reach great holiness and purity. May we draw upon ourselves the holiness of Mordechai and Esther. Let us merit to draw the holiness of Purim to all the days of the year, to always be happy in You with really great happiness and joy. By this, may we merit to the holiness and purity of the red—heifer and to the real holiness of Pesach. Let us merit to always be happy. Fulfill in us the verse which says: “For our heart shall rejoice in Him, for we have trusted in His holy Name." May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing before Your Countenance, O God, my Rock and my Redeemer.
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Looking at the face of tzaddikim alone is a very great thing. Certainly when one merits to speak with him this is even better but just looking alone is very good and is very beneficial for achieving holiness.
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Even a wanderer who travels back and forth and sometimes comes to places that are very far away from the service of G-d, such as the houses of the wicked and even of idol worship, even so as a Jew he has the power to raise and lift up all these places to G-d. Therefore, he has to do what he can to draw himself to the Holy One in any way he can in any place that he finds himself.