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states, the love of the Holy One, blessed be He, for the worst Faith and Will
sinner of Israel is thousands upon thousands of times greater than
that of a father for his only son who was born to him after decades When we do the work of the will, we want to bring about solutions
of waiting, hope and prayer. As the holy Zohar states, “If people to intransigent problems and transform ourselves. Therefore, we
only knew the love with which the Holy One, blessed be He, loves must learn how to attain perfect prayer: what leads to perfect
the people of Israel, they would roar like lions to come close to prayer and what, on the other hand, harms and damages perfect
Him” (Shemot 5b). prayer. I will focus on wholeness of faith and wholeness of the will.
Rabbi Nachman certainly had wholeness of faith, but as for us,
Normal parents in this world cannot give their son everything that before we reach the ability to cry out we must establish faith in
they want to give him. But our Father in heaven has no problem our hearts. Therefore, I will explain at length and thoroughly the
giving us everything we need in order to rectify ourselves and meaning of wholeness of faith that arouses the will and unequivocal
fulfill our mission. All you have to do is open the door. When you prayer. And I will focus on wholeness of faith in regard to the work
do so, you accomplish what the Creator most wants and desires, of the will.
because His entire wish is that you will come to Him and desire to
be accepted by Him. After that, I will discuss wholeness of the will. Rabbi Nachman
of Breslov and the tzaddikim of the generations sensed spiritual
I thought of another image as well: If the son of the king were danger as strongly as they sensed physical danger, and even more
wandering about the streets in torn and filthy clothing, eating scraps so—literally. Therefore, their spiritual will to avoid transgressing
from the garbage, sleeping on benches, shivering from the cold and Hashem’s will to the slightest extent was perfect. But we need to
reeking with putrid odors, how much pain the king would feel and work very much in order to acquire this proper feeling and intent.
how much he would want to aid him and do everything to help him Therefore, I will explain how we attain the perfect will to change
get out of that situation and return to a normal life, and how much spiritually. That is the essence of everyone’s work: after you have
pain the king would feel if his son did not want to leave but insisted built the foundations of faith, the essence of your work is to build
on living like a stray cat. Conversely, how much happiness the king a forceful and whole will.
would feel when his son realized that he is headed in the wrong
direction, and asked for the king’s help and guidance.

The same applies to every Jew who is stained by sins, cravings,
bad traits and addictions, and who is far from the normal life that
Hashem wants him to live, a life of sweetness with Torah, prayer and
the fear of heaven, and who lives in the garbage, in Gehennom—
because living in this world without faith is worse than Gehennom,
and to be far from the Torah and the fear of heaven is not a life.
How much Hashem wants to help every Jew, and how pleased He
is by every Jew who realizes that he is living a mistake and wants
to improve. Even if his path to a normal life is very long, Hashem
wants to help him and do everything to shorten his path and make
it possible for him to do complete teshuvah.

Thus, when we possess complete awareness that Hashem wants to