91.
Master of the Universe, Who is full of mercy, Who desires loving-kindness and abounds in bestowing good, You bestowed good to all, whether good or evil. You think about how to prevent the dispersed souls from becoming lost. Open Your eyes and see our helplessness. We have no one to stand up for us. What can we do now that You have taken the great tzaddik from us by his passing away. The tzaddik has brought us all closer to the Holy One but, because of our many sins, the sun, has set at midday and we are left as orphans without a father. Merciful One, teach us to cry and mourn the loss of the true tzaddikim so that we arouse Your compassion upon us. Teach us this generation who have the power to lead us on the path of truth bring us close to You and return us to You in real repentance. Merit us to come close to them and to behave in their pleasant words with perfect faith; their worldly words need studying for they contain hidden, wonderful Torah ideas and very sublime secrets. May I listen intently and connect my mind firmly to their holy words in such a way that they will connect me to You.
Merciful One, in Your awesome and wonderful compassion, do whatever You desire but at least in such a way that I will return to You from now on. Let my evil thoughts be quietened and my bad deeds be returned. Don’t let me blemish anymore. Help me to connect my thoughts, words and actions, all my wisdom and knowledge to You truthfully from wherever I am. As a result let me attach the lower wisdom to the upper wisdom. Have compassion on us in this time of distress in the days prior to meshiach’s coming. You know the bitterness suffered by our souls. Merit us to find and come close to the true tzaddikim so that they will have compassion on us and bring us close to You, to Your Torah and service. May they extract us from all the bad places into which awe have fallen, each person according to his level, and thus bring us back in true repentance. Enable us to join and attach the lower wisdom to the higher wisdom. Merit us to create great and awesome unifications and, as a result, to fill the blemish of the moon and to bring the Shechinah out of exile. Let there be a constant and complete unification of the Holy One and the Shechinah and, by this, sweeten and nullify all the harsh decrees in the world Forgive and pardon our sins.
Shine all the lights with a great wonderful light so that all the worlds will be completely rectified. Increase and reveal true knowledge in the world; let every made thing know that You are its maker and every formed thing understand that You are its creator. Let every breathing thing declare that the God of Israel is king and His kingdom extends to all places. Merit us to be very strongly and firmly attached to You for ever. In Your compassion, bring us close to true tzaddikim as soon as possible, for they are all our hope, in this World and in the Next. They are over life and the length of our days. So, have mercy on us for Your Name’s sake. Fulfill all our wishes for the good mercifully. Be gracious to us; hear and answer our prayers, for You hear the prayers of every mouth.
Blessed are You Who hears prayer.
92.
It is a great rectification for a nocturnal emission Heaven forbid to recite on that same day these ten psalms:
16. Michtam to David
32. To David Maskil
41. Praiseworthy is he who contemplates the needy
42. As the deer longs
59. To the conductor, don't destroy
77. To the conductor on Yedutun
90. A Prayer to Moshe
105. Give thanks to G-d, declare His Name
137. By the Rivers of Babylon
150. Praise G-d in His sanctuary
Someone who merits to recite them on the same day as the blemish no longer has to fear this awesome blemish of a nocturnal emission, Heaven forbid, for it will certainly be rectified by this. And in the merit of the rectification of this sin, our righteous Mashiach will come to gather all of us dispersed in exile. May it be speedily in our days. Amen.
106.
It is fitting to think about words of Torah when having marital relations. Even so one can conceive children even though the mind is then cleaving to thoughts of Torah. It is very good to accustom oneself to this.
107.
On one occasion the Rebbe spoke about how detestable the universal craving is, the craving for sex, and how we need to distance ourselves from it. He answered and said: Look, eating at least adds strength and vitality to a person, but this craving, on the contrary, it wastes and damages one's vitality a lot. It exhausts a person a great deal. We certainly don't need it at all other than for the sake of sustaining the human race.
125.
About reciting Psalms the Rebbe spoke to someone and said to him that the essence of reciting Psalms is to say them all about oneself, to find oneself in each and every psalm. He then asked the Rebbe, 'How?' The Rebbe then explained to him a little. For all the wars that King David asked from G-d to be saved from them, all have to be understood as the war against the evil urge and its cohorts. And so on, in the other psalms (as is explained in Torah 101). So the chassid asked him how he should understand those verses where King David praises himself. For example, when he says, "Guard my soul for I am devout" (Psalms, 86:2) and other similar verses. The Rebbe answered him, this also one has to understand as relating to oneself, for a person has to judge himself favourably and find within himself some merit and good point about which he can be considered ‘devout’ and so on. The Rebbe said to him, do we not find about Yehoshafat that it is written that, "And his heart was lifted up in the service of G-d" (Chronicles, 2, 17:6). In the paths of G-d and in serving Him he lifted his heart a little. In addition the Rebbe said to him, in the morning prayers do we not first say "What are we, what is our life" etc.; and we humble ourselves a lot. Afterwards we say "But we are Your People, the sons of Your covenant" etc. In other words we strengthen ourselves and raise ourselves by telling of our greatness and taking pride that we are His People, the sons of His covenant, the seed of Abraham, Yitzchak and Ya'acov etc. For thus we have to behave in the service of G-d, as mentioned above. See more about this in the end of the first part of the book in Torah 282, on the verse "I will sing to my G-d with my little bit of good."
THE END OF PART TWO OF LEKUTEI MOHARAN
THANKS BE TO G-D ON HIGH WHO OWNS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.