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Even if at times his words are blocked and he cannot entire hour?” You do not need to speak. All you have to do is set The Double Profit
even open his mouth to speak to Him, may He be aside time for a meeting with the Creator. Come to the meeting
blessed, the very fact that he is prepared and standing and be alone with the Creator. Do this in the simplest way, even A person who spends an hour in hitbodedut every day has time
before Him, may He be blessed, and he wants and yearns if you have nothing to say. Only try, as best you can, to induce for both a daily personal accounting and for devoting half an hour
to speak, even though he cannot, is itself very good. He yourself to say whatever you can, and to want and yearn as much to the work of the will. That is the perfect way in which a person
can speak and pray about that topic itself. He should cry as you can. Know that you are in an hour-long meeting. Until you can open the eye of a needle to come to Hashem, following which
finish the entire hour, you are not leaving. Even when you feel
out and beg Him, may He be blessed, stating that he is confused or frustrated, whether you feel like staying or not, you Hashem will make an opening for him as large as the entrance
so far that he cannot even speak, and he should seek cannot go, because you are in the middle of a meeting. Understand of a banquet hall. That is why I earlier wrote that your entire
understanding and performance of everything that you have learned
compassion from Him, may He be blessed, pleading for this well: you are in a meeting with the Creator. You do not leave in this book so far depends on your implementing Rabbi Nachman
Him to have mercy on him and open his mouth, so that until the meeting ends. of Breslov’s counsel, which is to engage in an hour of hitbodedut.
he may speak to Him. A person who attains the great and tremendous gift that is called an
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov guaranteed you that by following this hour of hitbodedut, and who knows how to engage in hitbodedut
Know that quite a number of great, famous tzaddikim simple advice you will rise on the perfect pathway to your perfect properly, possesses the entirety of the service of Hashem. He has
related that they only attained their level by means of rectification. By means of this practice, you will attain the perfect Rabbi Nachman of Breslov’s awesome assurance that he will attain
this practice. The wise person will understand on his own rectification of all of your incarnations—which is to say, you will a complete rectification. He engages in a personal accounting and
the great level of this practice, the very highest of levels. attain your ultimate purpose. attains absolute atonement every day, and he also possesses the
And it is accessible to every individual, from the small to strongest tool for true change, which is the work of the will.
the great, because everyone can engage in this practice, A Great and Powerful Medicine
In truth, the work of the will is not my own invention. Rabbi
and in this way every person will reach a great level. Nachman himself, who prescribed the hour of hitbodedut, wrote
Fortunate is the person who engages in this. The hour that a person dedicates to his personal work is a wonderful
vehicle that will bring him close to Hashem, to repentance, to that a very important component of hitbodedut is the work of
This demands that you make a resolute commitment to set manifest faith and to all of the good in this world, as is stated the will: to focus on one issue until one brings about salvations in
aside a place and time to meet with the Creator, and to explicitly by the greatest of the generations and in particular the that area. Rabbi Nachman took all of these factors that you have
begin to implement this in actuality every day like a Swiss master of ethical teachings and the ways of serving God, Rabbi learned about here—i.e., these principles and rules—and put them
watch. Do not compromise on any part of this, because you have Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (the Ramchal), in his Derech Eitz Chaim: into the set framework of the work of prayer.
already received the greatest discount: a 99.99 percent discount. Practically speaking, he built the straightforward and wondrous
All that is left for you to do is to make an opening like the eye of This is the greatest and most powerful medicine tool that we call “the work of the will.” Whoever simply uses this
a needle, and the rest is “on the house.” This is the rock-bottom that you can produce against your evil inclination. tool—whether man or woman, boy or girl, Jew or gentile, the
price. Therefore, make a firm resolution. Right now, say aloud: It is easy and its effect is great and it bears much lowest person in the world or the highest person in the world—
“I will not rest and I will not be silent until today I find a way to fruit. A person should stand every day for at least one will activate all of the mechanisms of the world, all of the secrets
set aside an hour in my daily schedule for the most important and hour free of all other thoughts to think only about what I of creation, all of the spiritual rules and principles, and he will
greatest factor in my life: for my intent, for my essence, for my have discussed, and to inquire in his heart: what did the transform himself and rise.
repentance, for my rectification, for my Garden of Eden….” early ones, the fathers of the world, do so that Hashem
desired them? What did Moses our teacher, peace be To transform oneself means to live a new life, to emerge from
Do Your Part upon him, do? What did David, the anointed one of darkness to light, to live in the Garden of Eden. Is it possible to
Hashem, and all of the great ones who were before us, describe the Garden of Eden? Is it possible to describe a beautiful
This is not at all hard. People ask me: “How can I speak for an do? view, a rainbow, a color, to a person blind from birth? It is