# Prayer for Torah 25

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25.

“A prayer of the afflicted man when he swoons and pours forth his supplications before G-d. “Master of the Universe, help me express myself before You every day. Merit me to speak a great deal with my Maker, spending many hours on this every day, all the days of my life. Have mercy on me and open my mouth at all times; send me words of truth and holiness from Heave so that I can pray and ask from You new words all the time, and thereby, arouse Your abundant compassion upon me, bringing me closer to You. Merit me to go from one spiritual level to another all the time and constantly come closer to You. I still have not managed to explain myself properly before You, so I still have not been saved from my troubles, from the distress of my soul. Years have passed and I am still very, very far away from You. My immense distance from You is impossible to describe. My tongue has no words to explain myself properly before You all, that is hidden in my heart. So, in Your great, mercy and salvation, may, I find grace in Your eyes from now on. Open for me the gateways of prayer from anew, the gateways of supplications, private prayers and conversation. Open up the gateways of grace so that I can pour out my heart like water before You at any moment.

Therefore, I have come before You, Merciful One, to ask that You grant me fresh words of truth from the Source of holy speech. Let me renew my days that passed in darkness and gloom. Please help me, for You are full of compassion. Help me to understand the intention of the tzaddikim wherever I study in their holy books. Then enable me to arrange holy and pleasant prayers based on their words and holy allusions. Merit me then to pour out my heart before You about every single Torah, discourse true tzaddikim revealed to us and follow the path of one of their Torah innovations, in all aspects of my service of G-d, for a period of about a month. During that month, give me the words to plead and pray about it until I am able to reach and achieve that which is talked about. Afterwards, merit me to go on to new levels and new Torah innovations. Even if I am now far, far away from this, in Your eyes nothing is distant. You renew the world every moment. Please help me and redeem me. I have no strength. From far away I hope and wait for Your salvation. Do with me what is good in Your eyes. I do not have words or know which path to take in order to achieve all that I have asked for . Help me to return to You and to be as You desire.

Teach me the paths of private prayer and conversation with You in my own language. Let my prayers to You be like speaking to a friend. So, teach me the way to be victorious over You until You return Your countenance towards us. Return me in complete repentance before You really and truly merit us to speak holy words, which stem from the ten types of song, so that we can express ourselves truthfully with all our heart, until You begin and finish very soon to redeem us completely without further exile; a redemption of the soul, the body and money, generally and individually. Let us cease from doing evil and only do that which is good in Your eyes from now on. Merit us to continually go from one spiritual level to another with great holiness, as You really desire. May the words of my mouth and the musings of my heart find favour before You, G-d my Rock and Redeemer.

26.

 A Jew has to keep himself away from drunkenness and to be careful not to drink more than he can take for when one drinks too much and becomes drunk, then the powers of severity of the Other Side overcome him and make him angry and furious and then he can come to evil deeds etc. Heaven forbid. Know that Moshe is clothed in each and every individual Jew, in each of his limbs; he (Moshe) reminds every limb to perform the mitzvah that corresponds to this particular limb, for the 248 positive mitzvot correspond to the 248 limbs. But, by drunkenness, a Jew forgets them.