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Master of happiness and joy, in whose dwelling is might and joy and before whom there is no sadness at all. In Your bountiful mercy, help me and save me that I merit to always gladden myself at all times. Teach me perception; inform me of an advised path in such a way that I merit to always overcome and strengthen myself against sorrow, sighing and sadness; let me distance them from myself and from all around me, preventing them from entering, holding or touching me at all, Heaven forbid. Rather, may I overcome them with all my might and always draw upon myself happiness and joy. I will rejoice and be happy in You, in Your great salvation, Your wonders and Your many and tremendous acts of loving-kindness which You have done for me and which You will do for me in the future. In Your wonderful loving-kindness You supported my fate that I be born from the seed of Israel, Your holy Nation, and You gave us the Torah of truth and implanted eternal life within us. "My portion fell in pleasant places; I have a goodly heritage." In Your bountiful mercy, let me merit to overcome and strengthen myself at all times, to always draw upon myself this great and wonderful happiness. May I strengthen myself with great happiness, so much so that the happiness reaches my legs and that I merit to dance from happiness, especially on Sabbaths of the Lord and Festivals of the Lord, holy convocations, Chanukah, Purim and the rest of the happy events stemming from commandments.
Always be my help; gladden me very strongly until I merit to dance a lot from happiness. May I merit to engage in learning Torah and to perform all the commandments with such great happiness that the happiness reaches my legs and I merit to raise my legs. You, who are full of mercy, help me and save me so that I can always be happy. At all times teach me the paths of Your true advice. Remind me, encourage me and strengthen me at all times to arouse myself to always be happy and to remember at all times Your awesome, sublime favours which You have done for each one of Your People, Israel, and especially for me, at all times, in the evenings, in the mornings and at noon, ever since I was born, until this very day. Help me remember Your innumerable wonders and favours, those that are known to me and those that are unknown and concealed from me. You alone perform for me awesome wonders, miracles and eternal favours at all times in order to enliven and sustain me for eternity in the holiness of Israel. There is no favour or happiness greater than this, than the fact that every single Jew, even the least of the least, such as myself, merits to some good points every day by performing a commandment of the Creator, may He be blessed; they are our lives and the length of our days, for ever and ever, for all eternities. How fortunate we are, how good is our portion in life, how pleasant is our fate and how fine our inheritance. Let us merit to remember and to believe in Your great loving-kindness, Your wonders and favours which never cease; help me to always gladden myself by remembering this. Open my heart and my perception; brighten the eyes of my mind; at all times guide me and teach me all the forms of advice by which I can gladden myself at any particular period or hour, in such a way that I merit to always be happy and until I merit to dance a great deal each time because of happiness. Let me raise all the elements called ‘feet’ to the aspect of a heart of wisdom, an aspect of that "we may get a heart of wisdom." By this, may all the harsh judgements in the world be sweetened from upon us and from all Israel. May I merit through this happiness and dancing to rectify the blemish of bad speech that I’ve committed from my youth until today by many forms of bad speech, especially slander and gossip. Let me raise and rectify it all completely by holy happiness and dancing...
Master of the World, in Your mercy, fulfill all our wishes for the good and let us be worthy of all that we’ve requested from You, so that we merit to always be happy... May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart find favour before You, O Lord, my Rock and Redeemer. Amen and Amen.
Master of joy and gladness; strength and joy are in His place. In Your Presence there is no sadness whatsoever. Help me, in Your abundant compassion, and merit me to gladden myself at all times in such a way that I can strengthen myself to overcome any sorrow or sadness. Let me drive them away without allowing them to enter my bounds or the hold of me at all. Rather, give me the power to overcome them and draw upon myself happiness and joy constantly. I will rejoice and be happy in You, in Your wonders and immense loving-kindness that You have performed for me until now and which You will perform for me in the future. In Your wonderful love You created me a Jew, and gave me Torah; the eternal life You planted in me. So, enable me to always be strong and to draw upon myself this great and wonderful joy, so much so that the joy spreads to my legs and leads me to dance, especially on Shabbat, Festivals, Chanukah and Purim or on other occasions like weddings or a brit mila etc. Be with me always to gladden me so that I will dance a lot from joy. Merit me to study Torah and perform mitzvoth with great joy, to such a degree that it fills my legs and I raise the m in dancing. As a result, have mercy on us and strengthen those who support financially Torah studies. Fill their hands with God’s blessings so that they lack nothing and will be able to support Torah scholars in such a way that the latter will be able to study and serve god without any worries or confusions regarding money.
By the joy and dancing, merit me to rectify any blemish in my power of speech. I have blemished a lot by evil speech sine my youth until now, especially by slander and gossip. Let me now rectify everything by holy happiness and dancing from now on, guard me and save me from any evil speech such as slander and gossip. Let me sanctify my speech with great holiness in the utmost perfection. Save me from any blemish in my faith. Merit me to raise and rectify all the flaws in faith through the holy joy and dancing. From now on, may my faith be really perfect, as is proper, as You desire. Furthermore elevate me financially as well. Grant me great, holy wealth so the I can study torah and serve You without any worries and without having to stop. Enable me to give lots of charity and to support others who really study Torah.
Draw blessings and a good life to all our children and offspring. Save us and all our generation from the anguish of raising children. Merit us all to raise our offspring without any sorry or harm. Just help us to raise them calmly, in peace and tranquillity, to the study of Torah, to marriage and to good deeds, for many years, in Your service.
Master of the Universe, fulfill all our wishes for the good. Merit us to achieve all that we have asked for from You. Merit us to always be happy. Gladden the souls of Your servant for I lift up my soul to God. Purify our hearts to serve You with truth. Fill us with Your goodness, gladden us in Your salvation. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and with a generous spirit sustain me. May the words of my mouth and the musings of my heart find favour before You, God, my Rock and Redeemer. Amen and Amen.
82. "WHEN YOU GO FORTH TO WAR" (Deut.21:10)
(a) When a person sees that things are not going smoothly for him, he should know that he has pride and then repent; he should humble himself until he becomes an aspect of 'nothing' ('ma'). Then things will go smoothly for him.
(b) The main time to perform repentance is in the month of Elul for they are days of Divine favour when Moshe went up to receive the second Tablets and opened a more accessible path to G-d. The path of repentance that Moshe made is this: a Jew has to connect himself to even the very lowest of the low of the Jewish People because even in such a Jew there is certainly a spark of godliness. By this Godliness he can unite and connect himself with him. Also, in every climb when he ascends spiritually, he must find G-d there. For sometimes, by rising to a new level, such as by becoming rich, a person forgets the Holy One. Even in the service of G-d we find that Elisha (Acher), after he rose to a new level, came to a complete denial of faith in G-d, Heaven save us. However, the truth is that it should certainly be the opposite. Know that this is an aspect of "His eyes were dimmed from seeing" for this is because he came very close to the light of godliness; for all the good, even materially, is godliness, as it says, "G-d is good for everything". And, by this, the light dims his eyes and harms him, just like a person who looks at the actual light of the sun; the intense light damages his eyes. Therefore you need to ask from the Holy One to bring you near to Him in a way that it will not harm you.
(c) When you are in the aspect of 'nothing' and you draw godliness to yourself, meaning that you always connect your mind and thoughts to godliness, by this all your wars will be nullified and all the desires which oppose your will become nullified.