# Prayer for Torah 3

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Healer of the sick Jews, true Healer, faithful and compassionate Healer, have mercy upon us and upon all Your Nation, the House of Israel. Preserve us and save us so that we should not come to any illness or ailment, according to Your holy, true and just decrees, I plead with You, merciful One, in Your great compassion, preserve us and save us so that we should not make a mistake, Heaven forbid, and put ourselves into the hands of physicians and doctors, for they are all worthless and (offer) nothing but vanity. For You know the truth, that there is no physician who knows to cure the illness and ailment really properly, even the expert doctors who are eminently well learned in their field of knowledge, for there is no wise and expert doctor who can know to determine correctly the medicine which is special to the cure of that patient; according to Your judgment when You decreed that the patient; according to Your judgment when You decreed that the patient should not be cured other that by a certain person and certain medicine.

 Therefore it is completely impossible that the patient be cured other that specifically by these factors which were decreed concerning his cure. Who is the wise man who can know all this? Even more so is this true since most of the physicians and doctors are ignorant of science and are not well-learned in the science of healing, for it is a very great, deep wisdom and there are immeasurable numbers of differentiations and changes which make it usually impossible to determine the real truth. In one small movement they do much damage and sometimes they spoil and cause more harm than they cure. They kill and murder people with their own hands! Several peoples’ lives have degenerated because of them, for more people have died through physicians and doctors than have died by themselves, as is known before You, Master of the World. True doctors admit by themselves that it is impossible to know that science perfectly;

they have admitted unashamedly that it is better to avoid doctors and medicines.

Master of the World, You are full of mercy. Creator of cures. Master of wonders. You know that the world has already sunk very much, for many days and years, into this mistake of engaging in medical cures, until it has become very difficult to extract people from that confusion, particularly since, because of the great anguish and pain of those who suffer illnesses, Heaven forbid, they give themselves over into the hands of the doctors, requesting a cure or medicine for their affliction. However, more or less everyone’s hopes were in vain, for the doctors did not succeed in removing their disease from them other than through Your Great Compassion and loving-kindness, when Your mercy became so strong as to remove their disease and treat their wounds.

Therefore I come before You, who are full of mercy. True Healer, have compassion upon us and give us insight to understand and become wise at any time that we have need of some cure for ourselves or our family. Heaven forbid, so that we should not go searching for doctors, but only searching and requesting always for the Face of

G-d. Strengthen our hearts to trust in You, Your tzaddikim and those who really fear You. Help us and save us so that we merit always to give money for the redemption of our souls. Provide for us always with really kosher, fearful people, who will have the power to perform a redemption of the soul from the money given to them, in a way that will ‘sweeten’ (diminish the severity of) the judgment upon us and our offspring and our household, by the redemption of the soul made on our behalf. You will be full of compassion for us. Cure us completely, spiritually and physically. Heal us Lord and we will be healed. Save us and we will be saved, for You are our song of praise. Bring a complete cure to all our afflictions, all our pains, all our illnesses (inn particular the sick person so and so…..) For You are G-d, King, faithful and compassionate Healer.

We have no dependence on any cure of any doctor in the world! Only upon You do we rely, G-d, I plead with You, cure us out of Your abundant compassion and loving-kindness, for You alone know the great anguish and pain of all who suffer illnesses or pains. You, who are full of mercy, have mercy upon them Don’t hide Your Face from them. See and care for them in their oppression and pain. Be full of compassion for them, to heal them and cure them, to give them strength and revive them very quickly. Fulfill the verse which is written: “And the Lord will take away from you all sickness and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt which you know: upon you; but I will put them upon those who hate you”.

And it is said: “And you shall serve the Lord, Your G-d, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from your midst”. And it is said: “And He said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord, your G-d and will do that which is right in His sight and will hearken to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you which I brought upon Egypt; for I am the Lord that heals you”.

Amen. May it be His will.

4. "AND I HAVE COMMANDED THE RAVENS" (Kings,1:17)

(a) The main task in giving charity is to break one's cruelty and turn it into mercy by volunteering to give charity for if someone is compassionate by nature and gives charity out of compassion, this is not considered as working on oneself. Therefore, anyone who has a generous heart and wants to fulfill the mitzvah of charity properly, first has to go and pass through this aspect. That's to say, first he has to break the cruelty within him which is part of his nature and turn it into mercy by giving charity. This is the essence of the task of giving charity, as mentioned. Through this, also the anger of G-d will be turned into favour.

(b) All the mitzvot and good deeds and all the service of G-d are an aspect of birth for the main generations of tzaddikim are their good deeds. And like a woman before giving birth has to suffer several birth pangs and contractions and she screams out a number of cries of 'ouch' and 'oh' etc. Similarly, in the service of G-d, when one wants to do something to serve G-d or to repent, it is actually necessary that he undergo many struggles. Then he has to scream out several cries of 'ouch' and 'oh', groan a lot and make all sorts of movements etc. especially in the beginning when it is very difficult, for all beginnings are difficult. Then one needs even more to cry out and groan etc. before starting some new beginning. Also afterwards, after making the beginning, serving G-d doesn't come easily and one needs several struggles and contortions, as mentioned, before one merits to perform some action that is really splendid for the beginning is very difficult, as explained. Therefore, do not get confused by all that occurs to you for it is necessary to go through it all. "According to the distress, so is the reward."

(c) Charity widens all of the openings into the realm of holiness. When a person enters a certain path and way of serving G-d then he has to make an opening and enter in that path. That is why all the beginnings are difficult. But by giving charity, he widens the opening. And even when there already is an opening, the charity widens and opens even more all the entrances to holiness. So, before any mitzvah or service of G-d, it is good to give charity in order to widen the entrance of holiness that one needs in order to do this service of G-d so that it won't be too hard and too much of a strain for him to enter there.

(d) The beginning of charity is very burdensome and difficult. But the benefit of charity is very great indeed. The needs of the body are very numerous, and even those things that are really necessary are also many, such as food, drink, clothing and accommodation, and they are very great obstacles to a person in the service of the Creator. By means of giving charity we nullify all these obstacles for, by charity, we merit to have G-d's loving-kindness bestowed upon us such that we need no business or craft to get a livelihood. The work will be done by others while he engages in the service of G-d.

(e) The immense loving-kindness is impossible to receive for we haven't the ability to accept such great goodness. We need to make a vessel and channel through which to receive the bounty. Through fear of G-d the vessel and channel is made to receive the bounty of loving-kindness.

(f) When it becomes revealed that everything occurs through Divine Providence, as G-d wills, without any laws of nature at all, this creates fear of G-d; for then we know that there is reward and punishment it becomes feasible to fear G-d. But, when a person falls into disbelief, as if everything occurs according to the laws of nature, then fear of G-d is not feasible, Heaven forbid. (Ed. See Job, Ch.15, when Eliphaz says to Job that he blamed it all on the Constellations and therefore he annulled fear of G-d.)

(g) Revelation of G-d's will is by the Festivals for each holy Festival calls and announces and reveals G-d's will, that everything occurs only according to His will and there is no force of nature at all. For on every single Festival G-d performed awesome wonders with us which are the opposite of the laws of nature. In Pesach He took us out of Egypt with awesome wonders. On Shavuot He gave us the Torah with awesome wonders. In Succot He surrounded us with clouds of glory. By all these awesome signs and wonders He performed for us in all of these three Festivals, it became revealed that everything happens only according to G-'s will without any laws of nature at all. However, one has to incline one's ears and heart well to hear this holy call; as a result he will merit to the joy of the Festival. Every person, according to how well he merits to hear in his heart this holy call of the Festival, how everything occurs only according to G-d's will, so he merits to the joy of the Festival.

(h) There are evil creatures which trample and tear to pieces their prey; they are the wise men of the laws of nature (scientists) who want to show through their mistaken wisdom that everything occurs according to nature, Heaven forbid. They trample and tear to pieces many of the son's of our nation. There are many Jewish souls who have sunk in this, Heaven preserve us. These souls are like birds caught in a net. Therefore, anyone who has mercy on his soul has to run away and escape with his soul from them so that his soul won't be trampled on and torn to pieces, Heaven forbid, by them. Their pressure is very great and the voice of their roaring rises and overcomes the voice of the Festival which calls and cries out and reveals the will of G-d. Therefore, Heaven forbid that we should look at all in those books of philosophy, even in those books written by famous rabbis, for there is no greater harm than that.

(i) Because of the old people in the generation, who live to a ripe old age, but who haven't perfection (in knowledge or holiness), belief in the laws of nature becomes stronger, Heaven forbid, for a person has to add holiness and knowledge of G-d every day that is added to his life. Every additional day has to shine even more with extra holiness and knowledge of G-d. Only then is a person called a truly holy old sage. However, when a person blemishes his days and fails to add holiness and knowledge each day, even though he may be old, he is not called an old person at all; on the contrary, he is called 'short-lived'. When the holy knowledge of these old people falls, the knowledge and wisdom of the laws of nature (natural sciences) derive sustenance and become stronger in the world.

(j) The rectification for this is to give charity, for by giving charity we rectify the blemish of these old people of the generation who live to an old age but are unworthy. Through this we merit to nullify the source of the natural sciences and to hear the voice of the holy Festival which calls and reveals that everything is according to the will of G-d. Then we merit to the joy of the Festival. Therefore we have to give a lot of charity before each Festival in order to merit to the perfect joy of the Festival. Through this, by hearing the voice of the Festival calling and revealing the will of G-d, as a result he will merit to fear of G-d. By means of this he will be able to receive the bounty of G-d's loving-kindness such that he will have no need to deal with any business for a living. All his work will be done by others; he will be able to devote himself to the service of G-d without any disturbances because of a livelihood. This means that the benefit of charity is very great both for himself, for he can devote himself to the service of G-d without disturbance, and in general for the whole world, for belief in the will of G-d becomes revealed. All the souls that have already been trapped in the natural sciences like birds caught in a net will fly out of their trap and go out from there in peace by this charity.

(k) Sometimes, even when one has subdued the wise men of the laws of nature, they still return and plant a doubt in our belief in G-d's will; then we need to give a lot of charity again, for charity always subdues and belittles the wisdom of nature and reveals that everything that occurs is only according to G-d's will.

(l) Charity is a cure for all afflictions.

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