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and the help of heaven will be multiplied thousands upon thousands
of times, beyond measure!
Everyone wants. Who does not want to be a master of
faith, a master of good traits, happy, calm, spiritual, a
master of prayer, diligent in Torah, performing kind deeds,
and so forth? As Rabbi Natan says, “Who is so foolish and
mad that he does not want the true and eternal good?”
(Likutei Halachot: Arev 3). But in order to actually attain, we
must make use of the spiritual principles, the rules of life.
Only then will we truly change.
Chapter Five: | 151
In Mortal Danger
I took the name of this person to pray that Hashem will soon
bring him to repent fully. And I sincerely thanked my student for
this painful story that wounded my heart. I was already familiar
with this distressing reality. Even before I heard this terrible story,
my heart had been on fire to infuse the wondrous way of the work
of the will into the hearts of the Jewish people. But after this story,
my heart flamed many times more. I realized that this is a matter of
saving lives. Our present generation faces an existential daily danger,
without the slightest drop of exaggeration! In this generation, every
man, whether single or married, who does not engage in a half
hour of the work of the will on gaining holiness, on guarding his
eyes, and on entirely nullifying the craving of licentiousness is in
tremendous danger.
On the other hand, a person who does this minimal work, who
stands every day before Hashem for half an hour and arouses strong
intentions and pleads with all his heart not to stumble over any of
the impediments that exist in this generation, will at least—even if
he does not succeed in being perfectly clean—keep from pursuing
sins. He will not put himself into challenging situations. He will
not have an unfiltered internet or unfiltered smartphone. That is
because he cries out every day to Hashem to rescue him from
forbidden matters that come to him against his will. Is it conceivable
that such a person will consciously transgress and sin? In truth, as I
wrote in Chapter Three, if a person regularly does the work of the
will every day, not only is he saved from purposefully transgressing,
but he will receive heavenly assistance and he will be able to attain
high and awesome levels. Even if he does not initially see results,
his efforts are appreciated as being the maximum that he can do.
Therefore, heaven will guard him from transgressing, and he will
have no judgments against him—neither in this world nor in the
world-to-come. And if he remains persistent, he will certainly attain
the complete rectification of the “covenant” and rectification of the
“foundation,” so that he will be entirely cleansed of this craving.