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Master of the universe, from now on, help me and save me. In You bountiful mercy, do whatever You do, with wonderful loving-kindness; merit me from now on to really guard the holy brit. Return me to You in complete repentance over the past in the merit of the true tzaddikim who achieved completely perfect guarding of the brit.
Merciful One, You revealed to us that all the rectifications in all the worlds and the entire Torah all depend on the rectification of the holy brit which is the foundation of every thing. However, because of the power of the evil urge, we have blemished the brit a great deal. Therefore I have come to plead to You mercy and salvation. Help me to achieve a really perfect rectification of the brit. Make my eyes and mind shine at all times in such a way that I merit to keep far away from this craving and thoughts associated with it. Help me to escape from them so that I can drive them out and nullify them from me entirely. Then, let me achieve a perfect rectification of the brit, as You desire.
So, help me, in the merit of the power of all the true tzaddikim who rectify the brit completely. Then, let us merit to shoot arrows, Which are the words of prayer said in utter perfection. Merit us to always pray with tremendous concentration, with perfect faith and great energy and enthusiasm until we speak out holy words of prayer so forceful that the words will fly through the air like arrows rising far into the world above, activating all the rectifications in all the worlds above as they should.
Merit us to the sanctity of the holy Shabbat so that we can engage in studying Your Torah, prayer and mitzvoth without the need to work for a living during the week. Merciful One, You granted us the wonderful gift of Shabbat from Your Treasury. You know the virtue of the sanctity of the holy Shabbat which sustains and drives life-force to all the worlds. You know how far I am away from the holiness and joy of Shabbat, so teach me how to merit to the joy of Shabbat on every single Shabbat. Grant me a taste of the holiness of Shabbat.
Please God, Who alone has wisdom, teach me to know that I really don’t know anything. As a result, let me start from anew in the service of God every time, whether in time of ascent or of descent, Heaven forbid. May I not be confused or bothered by anything in the world. Don’t let my immense and innumerous sins weaken my mind, Heaven forbid. Just let me know that I really no nothing at all about what happens to me or what happens in the world. Just merit me to real wisdom, understanding and knowledge, to recognise the truth, that I am far away from true wisdom.
Therefore, in Your bountiful mercy, help me to discard my leperous body which is from the poison of the snake. Then, merit me to wear the cloths of Shabbat, that’s to say, a holy body from Gan Eden. You alone know from where this coarse, material and filthy body is drawn. The immense coarseness and filth of this leperous body, from which I cannot clean myself, dirties my deeds and confuses my mind. Teach me how to arrange my prayers before You so that at least from now on I can discard my evil deeds and confused, despicable thoughts. Let me discard me leperous, coarse, dirty, materialistic body, to such a degree that I merit to cloth myself in a holy body from Gan Eden.
Remove the darkness from our eyes until we see wonders. Fulfill in us very soon the verse which says, "As in the days when you left the land of Egypt, so I will show him wonderful things." Always draw upon me the holiness of Pesach. Help us always to recount and tell of Your wonders and Your true Torah. Let us merit to always talk and reveal the Torah of truth. Fulfill in us the verse which says, "The Torah of truth was in his mouth." Have mercy upon us. Save us and help us very soon to remove the darkness which covers the mouth of the depths, and to radiate the light of truth in the world until it be considered as if we created all the world. Master of the World, who gives the power of speech to the dumb, grant us speech to talk at all times of Your true Torah and wonders. "That the generation to come may know them, even the children who will be born; who will arise and tell their children."
May we merit to inform our sons, the sons of our sons, and all Israel in their generations, of all the deeds and wonders of the Lord that He has done for us from the leaving of Egypt until this very day; as it says, "Teach them to your sons and your sons’ sons."
You, who are full of compassion, let us and all Israel merit to the light of real eyes, to always look and see the truth. Let us always gaze and really see the wonders of the Lord. Open my eyes and the eyes of all the people of Israel and let us behold the wonders from Your Torah which You revealed by Your true tzaddikim. You alone know the wonders of their Torah that they revealed in the world. By the light of their eyes may all our requests and supplications that we pray rise to the Temple. By this, may the redemption that is dependent on the heart be aroused; as is written "For the day of the vengeance is in my heart and the year of my redeemed has come." By this nullify from us the leaven and leavened bread of the ‘desire of the heart of a man is evil’ which remains with us from our youth. This leaven and leavened bread in the heart entices a person to question the authenticity of the wise men in the generation and to say that one is pleasing and the other is not pleasing. Because of this, our hearts have opposed them, so the seventy-two tzaddikim in this generation have become hidden from us. We don’t know for certain even one of them. Have mercy upon us for Your sake. Remove, get rid of and nullify from us the leaven and leavened bread in our hearts such that we merit to believe in all the tzaddikim without questioning their authenticity at all. Let me not make any distinction between them, rather may they all be pleasing, dear and beloved in our eyes very, very much... Pardon and forgive me for all my sins, iniquities and wilful transgressions, really completely and utterly by this holy love.
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(a) The main form of connecting with and cleaving to the Holy One is through prayer, for prayer is the gateway through which we enter to the Holy One and from which we come to recognize G-d.
(b) Most often when a person prays he gets thoughts of pride and this is an aspect of the exile of the Shechinah. By praying with all one's strength one can overcome the extraneous thoughts of self-importance and nullify them. This extracts the Shechinah from its exile and rectifies it. It causes a unification of the Holy One and the Shechinah to be made. Also, by means of praying with all one's strength, G-d's oath to the Patriarchs becomes renewed and it is as if now He is swearing an oath to our Fathers.