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every individual. It is not something that He has to do, as it were. cleanliness, the taste of purity, the taste of disconnecting yourself
If a person wants to do something, he doesn’t have to be required from physicality in a healthy way? Do you want to feel light and
to do it. How much more is this true of Hashem, Whose will is the free? Do you want to at last understand how much your physical
purpose of all existence. Therefore, if this student had cried out to cravings choke your inner light? When you begin to sense the true
Hashem, “You have to rescue me,” that would have been much light in this work, you will understand that until today you were
more precise what he did tell Hashem—“You must rescue me”— in terrible darkness, and you will begin to feel true pleasure, the
because we must believe with a wholeness of faith that Hashem wants ultimate good. Do you want? Want! Want, intensify your wanting,
to rescue every individual, even the most unworthy. Nevertheless, enhance your wanting. Bear in mind that wanting means that you
the student used the phrase, “You have to rescue me,” because set aside time for prayer. Therefore, before everything else, pray
it has more power to arouse a person’s will and his wholeness of for this itself: that you will succeed in implementing this advice,
faith in prayer. Hashem wants a person to live. He wants to save that you will succeed in saying “yes” to this advice that will save
a person from his troubles. When a person is in immediate danger your life!
and Hashem must save him immediately—because otherwise, in
another minute there will no one to be saved—it would be proper Cry out to Hashem every day: “Master of the world, help me so
that he cry out to Hashem: “I need to be saved and You want to that I will not be a fool. Help me accept the gift of life. Help me
rescue me. Save me immediately!” But it is easier for a person to go on this path. Give me a strong and true, uncompromising will
cry out to Hashem, “You have to rescue me!” to keep this advice. Without this, nothing will help me, because it
is impossible to circumvent the spiritual rules. Without this, I will
“I Will Not Die, but I Will Live” lose touch with the essence of my mission and my rectification….”
Pray in simple words to Hashem every day that you may succeed
in implementing this. Desire this with a lasting will, a will that is
In accordance with this, I understood the difference between the
two types of prayer in the passage from the Gemara. All of the revealed in the practical framework of prayer. Do the work of the
people described there wanted life. Certainly, the desire of all four will in order to be able to follow this advice itself.
of them to be rescued from death was equal and total, because the
will to live is a person’s strongest will. They all realized that the No Need for Explanations
situation was critical, that they had no time, and that they must
be saved as quickly as possible. And under the pressure of their My entire goal is that everyone who reads this book will make
terrible stress caused by the knowledge that their lives were hanging a clear resolution to schedule a daily meeting with the Creator
by a thread, that their danger was immediate and imminent, they in which to express his intentions and do the work of the will.
certainly prayed with great intensity, and they believed that Hashem Everything that is written in this book may only be understood by
can do everything. Similarly, in any such extreme situations, we see a person who actually implements this simple advice. What must
and feel that Hashem is the sole address for us to turn to, that there you understand from everything that you have learned here? That
is no room for any effort in any other direction, nothing else to without a daily meeting with the Creator to engage in the work of
rely on. There is no room for lack of clarity. Thus all four people the will, it is impossible to change. And the conclusion to be drawn
mentioned in the Gemara certainly prayed with the faith that there is that you must schedule a meeting with the Creator. Without this
is none other than Hashem, that only He can rescue them, and that daily meeting with the Creator, it is true that your will is important
their sole counsel is to cry out to Him. and precious—but it is not a tool, it will not change you. Only if you
take your will into the framework of a regular, daily meeting with
But there was a difference in the wholeness of their faith: the two the Creator of the world will you begin to understand its power.