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vessels of that intention so that you, your offspring and for all of Why should you lose your life? You have an exact address to go to.
the people of Israel will know Hashem and know the Torah. Stand and plead with Hashem every day, and spend half an hour on
the blessing of “He Who graciously grants knowledge.”
Of course, this is only one example. We must go on to have
similar thoughts and intentions in every blessing. For example, if Wake up and understand how much a person needs to plead
you or a loved one is sick, the best solution is to spend half an and request proper knowledge regarding every difficulty in his life.
hour on the blessing of “Heal us,” because you have a great deal Do you have a problem? That is a sign that you lack awareness
of feeling and intent regarding this topic. You must draw down and knowledge. Where will you get that awareness and knowledge
salvation from the true Healer, Who is the Creator, and to that from? Stand up and request it from the One Who graciously bestows
end you must prepare many vessels. Therefore, recite “Heal us” at knowledge, and solve your problem! And even when a person does
length for half an hour. In so doing, you will build complete vessels have knowledge, he must plead with Hashem to help him attain
of prayer with intent and soul. more and more knowledge throughout his entire life, because every
person’s goal must be to attain proper awareness—which is faith
Then you will experience great salvations, so that instead of and the knowledge of Hashem. We must learn Torah and take
standing hour after hour consulting doctors, getting checkups and every sort of action. But in the end, we must not forget that the
obtaining medicine, and instead of going from clinic to clinic or to main thing is to seek knowledge from the One Who graciously
hospitals for examination upon examination, and instead of having bestows knowledge.
to depend on physicians who do not always diagnose problems
correctly and who need much compassion from heaven not to “I Don’t Have the Time…”
do harm, connect yourself to Hashem for half an hour and draw
down salvation directly from the generous and faithful hand of “the According to all that I have written, every person can easily
Healer of all flesh.” Every hour that you stand in prayer will save devote half an hour to the blessing, “He Who graciously grants
you many hours of confusion and running around.
knowledge.” No one can say that he is so busy that he doesn’t have
Before reciting every blessing, it is good and appropriate to time to properly request knowledge once a day. That is because
consider what you are going to request. Similarly, before every when a person requests knowledge, he receives everything—“If
word or section of the prayers, think about what you are going to you have acquired knowledge, what do you lack?” (Nedarim 41a).
say. In this way, you can easily fill the words with deep feeling and Instead of running and investing hours in all kinds of efforts to make
intent, which constitutes the life of the words. Moreover, when a living, spend just half an hour to request knowledge, and you will
you repeat the words over and over again, the words themselves see what blessings you will receive.
will inspire you and arouse your intent and deep feeling, which will And how much more will you be blessed if your soul yearns for
grow stronger with every repetition.
the Torah, and you are already spending hours every day toiling
in Torah. If you spend half an hour a day requesting knowledge,
then gates of learning and understanding that you could not have
otherwise attained even with years of steady learning will open up
Six Hours on Every Blessing for you. But if you do not pray for Torah as required, you have an
explicit pledge from the Gemara that nothing will help you, and
so you will not succeed in learning Torah. As the Gemara states
Until this point, I have discussed in the most detailed and practical
way possible how to spend half an hour engaged in the work of (Niddah 70b):