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“Create in me a pure heart, God, and renew right spirit within me.” Don’t caste me away from before You and don’t take from me the spirit of holiness. Master of the Universe, merit me to believe totally in You and Your true tzaddikim. Grant us patience in all things. Don’t let anything at all confuse us and prevent us to serving You. Save us from all kinds of atheism, Heaven forbid. Save us from every form of blemished and diminished faith for they are an aspect of the lack of patience, Heaven save us.
Master of the universe, You know what is happening to us in this lowly generation, how many spirited and physical enemies rise against us; they want to change our faith, Heaven forbid. They want to instill atheism in the Jewish People so that even kosher Jews have their faith blemished. This is an aspect of our lowliness and lack of self appreciation. Therefore, please have mercy on us; merit us to strengthen ourselves and our holy belief such that we come to believe in You and Your true tzaddikim with perfect faith really wholeheartedly. May we serve You by doing difficult things and really sacrifice our souls for the sake of the Torah and for Your service. Let us accept upon ourselves all the hard things (such as fasting or other self-mortification) in order to perform Your will (when we are threatened with forced conversion). Save us from all kinds of diminished faith for You have informed us that even tzaddikim sometimes have an aspect of this diminished faith. They don’t always have sufficient faith in themselves and their own Torah innovations. They don’t really believe that God takes great delight in their service and their Torah innovations. Occasionally they even neglect their Torah and service because of their lack of faith in themselves. Therefore, please have mercy on us and merit us to have really perfect faith in all its aspects such that we will need no fasts or other self-mortification.
Rather enable us to server You with all things in the world. Amen. So may it be.
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Because of a blemish to the brit it is hard for a person to find his marriage partner and even if he finds her she will oppose him; she will not do what he wants. By the special spiritual intentions of Elul blemishes to the brit are rectified. As a result, he will merit to find his marriage partner and she will do what he wants. (See the secret of the intentions of Elul, Lekutei Moharan, Pt.1, 6).