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According to the principles, you need to prepare a vessel. How is literally his death. To acquire that perception, he must remind prayers were relatively weak, because every person thought, “This
will you prepare that vessel? Where do we get a vessel from? Only himself vividly that as soon as he opens his eyes, “the eye sees and apparently won’t happen to me.” In the end, people always died.
from Hashem. Cry out to Hashem to give you a complete and the heart desires,” and in such a circumstance he has no free choice, Yet that did not arouse even the sick to cry out properly to live.
perfect vessel, to prepare all of the vessels that you need at this because the desire of his heart is immediate and instantaneous. That
very moment. He is all-powerful, and so that is in His power. means that he has given his entire heart to the Sitra Achra (the Every year, the chance of dying increased, and the chokehold
“Other Side” of evil), and he has destroyed the goodness in his tightened around the necks of the remaining men in the wilderness.
According to the principles, you need to pray a great deal. From life. The goodness in a person’s life is his love and his will. When Presumably, their feeling of danger increased and their prayers grew
where do we receive our words? Hashem opens our lips and gives he sees and desires an immodest sight, he gives all of his love, all stronger. Yet nevertheless the decree was not nullified. Even in
us words. He gives us arguments and lines of reasoning with which of his desire, all of his will, all of his yearnings, and all of his pining the next-to-last year, when 30,000 men remained, and they knew
to overcome Him, as it were. Cry out to Hashem and ask Him to for Hashem to the Sitra Achra. Basically, he gives his entire life to that one out of every two would die—a ratio of 50 percent—they
help you right at this moment. Speak fervently to Him and with the Sitra Achra. As a result, he loses his faith, his fear of heaven, certainly prayed with all their might. Yet nevertheless they did not
complete faith—because the quota of prayer is measured not so all of his awareness, his work of prayer and hitbodedut, all of his nullify the decree. Only in the last year, when there was no hope
much in quantity as it is in quality. “Better a little bit of entreaty Torah learning, all of the sweetness of prayer and Torah, all of the left of surviving, was their prayer effective, so that it nullified the
with feeling than a great deal without feeling” (Shulchan Aruch: Orach sweetness of life, his spouse, his peace at home, his children, his decree entirely.
Chaim 1:4). In one hour of truly crying out to God with a feeling of income. Basically, he loses all of his goodness and all of his life.
being in terrible danger you can bring about what others will not Moreover, his heart is filled with evil intent, with base yearnings, I was very surprised. Why, in the next-to-last year, when the
bring about even with 100 hours of prayer. Cry out to Hashem to with the fire of lust, with a destructive spirit of foolishness and percentage of those to die was extremely high, didn’t they cry out
give you a heart, to give you a sense of true danger, and to help madness, and with deceitful images. He forgets everything: he with all their might and nullify the decree? Then too they vividly
you utter fervent pleas that will bring you every salvation in a single forgets Hashem, he forgets the Torah, he forgets his family. He felt the danger. From here, we see that a person’s prayer must be
hour of prayer. forgets it all, and he only wants to silence the fire of lust burning absolute. If there is even a small point that weakens his prayer, the
within him. That is literally death. He loses his entire life and he is prayer cannot nullify the decree. As long as there was a chance that
According to the spiritual principles, you must be someone filled with death. they would remain alive, they did not cry out decisively! They did
termed “wanting,” so that heaven will guide you. But who gives not feel the deadly danger with absolute certainty, because they
a person the ability to “want”? That is the Creator, the Master of Man or woman, anyone who is working on any issue must engage had a 50 percent chance of surviving.
will. Plead with Him to give you complete, powerful and strong in visualization. For instance, if a person is working on eradicating
will at this very moment, so that heaven will be able to lead you his trait of anger, he must visualize his anger as literally being death. This illustrates all of the points that were made before: that even
at this very moment. Hashem is all-powerful. Can’t He give you That is because the Zohar states that when a person grows angry if we pray out of a sense of terrible danger, our prayers are not the
complete will? Certainly He wants to do so. He wants to save you. he rips apart his soul. He destroys his holy soul and receives an same as the outcries of a person who faces a 100 percent certainty
Only believe in this with complete faith, and cry out to Him with evil soul in its place from the Sitra Achra, a soul that is considered of death. The latter type of prayer is perfect: the prayer of a person
all your heart. an idol. Therefore, he should visualize that he is destroying his who feels immediate danger and who believes with complete faith
soul, and that demons and spirits are entering into him. He should that Hashem wants to save him—in consequence of which he cries
According to the spiritual principles stated in this chapter, in continue visualizing that until he feels that even getting angry once out and brings about his salvation. Only a person who prays to God
order for your prayer to be complete, you need complete faith is literally death, because he is destroying his soul. So too in regard to nullify his cravings as though he is struggling for his very life can
that Hashem wants to save you. But who gives that faith? Hashem to evil speech, a person should remind himself that the Gemara nullify them very quickly!
Himself. Therefore, cry out to Hashem: “You are all-powerful. states that evil speech kills three people: the speaker, the listener,
Give me complete faith so that I will believe that You want to save and the subject of the speech. Therefore, he should visualize that Guarding Life
me spiritually, and that You look forward to saving me spiritually, his every word of evil speech is literally his death. In that way, he
at this very moment.” can cry out properly. Consider the following. A person wants to acquire the perception
that every time he opens his eyes and sees an immodest sight, that
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