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verse states, “there is no wisdom and there is no understanding and every individual. It is not something that He has to do, as it were. cleanliness, the taste of purity, the taste of disconnecting yourself
no counsel before Hashem” (Proverbs 21:30)—and what happened, 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
happened. May Hashem rescue all of His people of Israel from all 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
harm, from this moment on. 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
The driver heard what I had to say and accepted my words. more precise what he did tell Hashem—“You must rescue me”— in terrible darkness, and you will begin to feel true pleasure, the
Suddenly, he remembered something, and he told me: “Rabbi, because we must believe with a wholeness of faith that Hashem wants ultimate good. Do you want? Want! Want, intensify your wanting,
among the people who attend your regular class there is a young to rescue every individual, even the most unworthy. Nevertheless, enhance your wanting. Bear in mind that wanting means that you
man who told me a similar story. With Hashem’s help, after the next the student used the phrase, “You have to rescue me,” because set aside time for prayer. Therefore, before everything else, pray
class I will have him come to you to tell you the story firsthand.” 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,
Indeed, after the next class, this Jew approached me and told me 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
the following story. a person from his troubles. When a person is in immediate danger your life!
and Hashem must save him immediately—because otherwise, in
I am a very good swimmer. One day during sefirat 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
ha’omer, when swimming is forbidden, I went with a 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
friend to the sea, not to swim but to immerse as in a 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
mikveh. I entered the water up to my waist, and when I cry out to Hashem, “You have to rescue me!” to keep this advice. Without this, nothing will help me, because it
crouched down under the water, I was suddenly pulled is impossible to circumvent the spiritual rules. Without this, I will
away by an undertow, and I couldn’t swim back to “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
shore. I panicked, I flailed and I stroked for shore with in implementing this. Desire this with a lasting will, a will that is
all my might, but it didn’t help. My friend saw me, but In accordance with this, I understood the difference between the revealed in the practical framework of prayer. Do the work of the
he didn’t realize that I was in terrible danger, that I was two types of prayer in the passage from the Gemara. All of the will in order to be able to follow this advice itself.
sinking and drowning. I started to swallow water. I was people described there wanted life. Certainly, the desire of all four
swept away so quickly that I was already very far from of them to be rescued from death was equal and total, because the No Need for Explanations
will to live is a person’s strongest will. They all realized that the
him, and he thought that I was swimming or playing situation was critical, that they had no time, and that they must
around, and so he paid no attention. In those moments, be saved as quickly as possible. And under the pressure of their My entire goal is that everyone who reads this book will make
I was overwhelmed. I was thinking that it was all over, terrible stress caused by the knowledge that their lives were hanging a clear resolution to schedule a daily meeting with the Creator
that I was about to leave this world. With my last bit of by a thread, that their danger was immediate and imminent, they in which to express his intentions and do the work of the will.
strength, I tried to think of something. I prayed, I gave certainly prayed with great intensity, and they believed that Hashem Everything that is written in this book may only be understood by
thanks to Hashem, until my mind became an utter blank can do everything. Similarly, in any such extreme situations, we see a person who actually implements this simple advice. What must
and I was unable to think of anything more. The will to 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
live burned in me, and I kept struggling, but the sea was 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
stronger than I was, and I felt that my moments were 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
numbered and that I had come to my end, that less than mentioned in the Gemara certainly prayed with the faith that there is that you must schedule a meeting with the Creator. Without this
daily meeting with the Creator, it is true that your will is important
a hairsbreadth separated me from death. Then I began is none other than Hashem, that only He can rescue them, and that and precious—but it is not a tool, it will not change you. Only if you
their sole counsel is to cry out to Him.
to cry out to Hashem—as best I could with all the water 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.