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The Wholeness of Faith: will help this person do teshuvah, which will mean that Hashem’s committing a habitual sin, nullifying an evil desire, renouncing
intent will be fulfilled, and in consequence the person will be healed. a bad trait, or giving up an addiction—you must believe with
To Recognize Hashem How much more does this idea apply when we pray for spiritual complete faith that Hashem can help you succeed completely. Just
as He helped all of the tzaddikim so that they became entirely and
matters. Then it is easy to understand that the entirety of our completely pure, so too He will help you as well, if you heed the
Whole faith is the faith that Hashem is all-powerful, that there is prayer is on behalf of the will of Hashem, Who created a person tzaddikim and go on their path and do what they did, in accordance
no other than He, that He desires life, and that He only wants to to serve Him and come close to Him, and not so that he will be with your place and level. The tzaddikim taught that the work is
benefit everyone and save everyone. We must divide this faith into an animal on two legs. Every time we engage in prayer to free easy, and that the principal factor consists of the will, prayer and 7
a number of parts and explain each one. ourselves from our animal nature and our cravings and to come entreaties. We must cry out to Hashem from the depth of the heart
close to Hashem, we are engaging in prayer on behalf of Hashem’s until we nullify our cravings completely. I have already explained
Part One: The King Who Desires Life will and Hashem’s honor: that His children will appear as He wants that Hashem answers a person’s prayer in accordance with his faith.
them to appear. Therefore, when we recite such a prayer, we may
If, in the core of your being, you do not believe that Hashem
ask for immediate salvation. can entirely nullify your cravings and transform your nature, He
1.Hashem wants to rescue everyone in the physical realm and So too, when we seek to be rescued from sinning, we must pray: will answer your prayer accordingly, and you will not see great
changes. If you do not believe that it is possible to nullify a desire
give him life. “It is Your will that I not commit any sin. If You do not give me the entirely, you will only see small changes. But when you believe that
power to overcome my evil inclination, I will continue to sin. I need Hashem can transform you entirely in a single moment, you will see
You to give me the strength not to sin even one more time, because tremendous changes!
2.Hashem wants to give life even to the most wicked person. every sin means death, and You want me to live. And I am only
alive when I cling to You and live in accordance with Your will. But Great Faith Means Easy Work
I lack the tools for that. Therefore, please give me the tools now
3.How much more, Hashem wants to give everyone eternal life. and the wholeness of will that Your intent will be revealed, so that You may think that this is true only for the elite of the generations
I will not commit any sin from this moment onward.”
and not for you. But why did the elite of the generations become
the elite of the generations? It is because they believed that Hashem
4.Hashem wants to save us spiritually immediately, at this very The Glory of the King wants them to be completely holy and pure, and in that spirit they
moment. engaged in the work of the will. And every Jew must be like them.
Everyone must make this vividly real for himself by using a variety
of metaphors and images to help him understand how much Hashem The entire difference between the tzaddikim and any other person
wants to assist him and save him. For instance, imagine a father on any level lies in the extent to which a person clings to the faith
5.Hashem’s will is that even the most wicked person will live and
and mother whose son has grown completely alienated from them that Hashem can make each person into a complete tzaddik like
do teshuvah completely, and attain every spiritual level. and caused them endless pain. If he comes and tells them that he Moses. As the Gemara states: “‘Who disdained the day of small
wants to return to them, they will immediately rejoice and forget things?’ (Zechariah 4:10)—who caused the table of the righteous
Part Two: He Is All-powerful, and Nothing Is Beyond the entire past, and give him everything with all their heart. As for in the world-to-come to be disdained? The smallness that was in
parents of a son who remains alienated from them, they would be
Him willing to give him so much if only he would want to return. them—the fact that they did not believe in the Holy One, blessed
be He!” (Sotah 48b). Rabbi Nachman derives from this Gemara that
smallness of faith means that they did not believe in themselves
If this is true even of normal parents in this world, how much (Sichot Haran 140). That answers the question: how can it be that a
1.Hashem is all-powerful in the physical realm. more is it true of our Father in heaven, Whose love and compassion righteous person does not believe in the Holy One, blessed be He?
are infinite, and Whose will is infinite. As the holy Baal Shem Tov According to Rabbi Nachman’s explanation, the answer is clear: