# Prayer for Torah 9

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9.

In Your great grace, You created Your world for the sake of the Jewish People who are the heart of the whole world. You gave them a heart to know, understand, yearn and long for You continually. In general the Jewish People have hearts that burn in a flame of love to cleave to You. “My love is strong till death… its flames are flames of fire the flame of G-d. Many waters… cannot extinguish the fire of this love” (Song of Songs 8,6).

But because of my immense and innumerous sins as You know, depression and sadness have overcome me a great deal. As a result, dustiness and heaviness have fallen upon my heart such that I cannot burn with enthusiasm in Your service as I should. And if, sometimes, in Your mercy, a spark of Your g-dliness shines within my heart, I haven’t the vessels to receive this spark, them my heart burns up too much. On the other hand, sometimes the heart is blocked up completely because of sadness.

So, may it find favour before You, G-d, our G-d, G-d of our Fathers, that You shine upon us the merit and power of the true tzaddikim and by this, grant us joy. In their great strength blow their holy spirit upon us and let this blow away from our hearts all forms of depression and sadness, all forms of dustiness and heaviness that falls upon our hearts. Then let us really burn with enthusiasm in the service of G-d. Guard us and save us from the stormy wind so that our hearts will not burn up with over-enthusiasm beyond its proper measure, Heaven forbid. We do not know how to behave with regard to this spark of enthusiasm in the heart; we do not know how to measure what is appropriate. Sometimes the heart is blocked completely while sometimes it burns up beyond the proper measure. We have no one to rely upon apart from our Father in Heaven and upon the strength and merit of the true tzaddikim. Each tzaddik is called a man with spirit within for he knows how to go against the spirit of each individual (in order to balance and rectify him).

Help us and merit us, please that the spirit of the tzaddikim will blow upon each one of us, a spirit of holiness and purity in such a way that we merit to really perfect joy, as You desire. Let each Jew’s heart burn with enthusiasm in Your service, for all eternity, with tremendous enthusiasm in the proper measure for each individual, according to his aspect of truth. Only You know how to measure this. Let us, Your Chosen Nation, the heart of the world, all cleave to You with real, holy enthusiasm such that we all become embodied with You for ever and ever, for all eternity.