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says is effective even after judgment has been decreed? It is an first of all know that Hashem wants to draw you close to Him and
outcry! Rabbi Yechezkel Levinstein teaches, “The quality of prayer save you spiritually, with an absolute and complete will that can
expressed as an outcry is determined by the degree to which a never change!
person’s heart is in [his prayer]” (Kuntres Eit La’asot). When a person
cries out to Hashem with total dedication, he brings about every To sum up the first part of faith: you must believe with
salvation. As the Gemara states: “A person’s prayer is heard only complete faith that Hashem wants, awaits, yearns and looks
when he places his life in his hands” (Ta’anit 8a). Such a prayer tears forward to save you spiritually. That is the entirety of His
up and nullifies every decree of judgment immediately. hope and desire, and the entire purpose of the creation of
the world. That is why He created the entire world. That
To summarize: a complete prayer that is expressed in an outcry is the strongest intent in all of creation. It is the truth that
from the depths of the heart comes from a complete desire for transcends all truths and the knowledge that transcends all
life—such as occurs at a time of life-threatening danger—with the knowledge.
wholeness of faith that Hashem is all-powerful and that there is no
other than He—and especially with the faith that Hashem wants to
give everyone life and save everyone.
Part Two: Hashem Is All-Powerful and Nothing Is
The significant factors that harm prayer are the points of truth Beyond Him
and faith regarding thanksgiving discussed above and all sorts of
other calculations that weaken a person’s outcry. When we cry
As a result of my engaging in the work of the will on this new
out to Hashem, we must cast all of these calculations aside, and path, I discovered a new depth of faith, which gave my prayers
with the highest faith hold onto the awareness that Hashem knows
all of these reckonings quite well but nevertheless wants to rescue added strength and power, on an entirely different level than I
had experienced before. I had been involved in the topic of faith
us—which is the absolute truth. Out of that awareness, cry out to
Hashem with all your might until your prayers have their effect. for decades, and I had been writing and teaching about faith. But
when I began to serve Hashem in keeping with this new awareness,
I understood that until now I had lacked a certain level of faith in
To Cry Out Properly Hashem. In this new way of serving God, I came to understand a
new and fundamental point.
I saw how all of this is connected to the work of the will. In
accordance with that, I understood the manner in which we must Introduction: Hashem Is All-Powerful in the Physical
engage in the work of the will, and the manner in which we must Realm
request and entreat Hashem for life—i.e., the manner in which we
must make all of our spiritual requests of Hashem, requests to
be rescued from sins and cravings, to come close to the Torah, to Simple faith tells us that Hashem is all-powerful. I always knew this
pray, to serve Hashem, and more. and always believed it. This is a straightforward concept: that all of
nature is in the hands of the Creator, Who created nature and Who
When Rabbi Nachman of Breslov wanted to teach his students has the power to change it. Hashem demonstrated this message to
how we must pray for spirituality, he told them the following story the entire world, and in particular to the nation of Israel, at the
(Shivchei Haran: Sipur Hanesiyah Le’eretz Yisrael 19). Exodus from Egypt. Hashem demonstrated that He has the power
to shatter all of the frameworks of nature, as occurred during the
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