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help everyone and save everyone spiritually, and He looks forward entire process of the redemption from Egypt, the splitting of the love.” This second kind of faith is deeply lacking in its awareness
and hopes only for this, when we feel an outcry in our heart that Sea of Reeds, the giving of the Torah, and all 40 years that the that Hashem wants to save us. It marks a serious imperfection in
indeed we must have this help, and when we understand that prayer Jews were in the wilderness. a person’s service of Hashem, because instead of being inspired
is the tool that will bring Hashem to actualize His will, our entire to serve Hashem, he gives thanks out of a stoical sense that his
prayer will be a prayer on behalf of Hashem. Whenever I experienced a problem—whether in incidents of situation is Hashem’s will, it is the best that he can expect, and
sickness and danger, or in incidents involving legal matters and the there is nothing more that he can do. That is called, “I said Thank
This is true of both hitbodedut and the Shemoneh Esrei. When like—I always prayed for a change in nature. I always believed that You, and I slept.”
we stand in prayer before Hashem, we must constantly remind in the blink of an eye Hashem can remove a growth from a person’s
ourselves: “Hashem, Who graciously gives man knowledge, wants body, that He can give children to someone who is infertile, and What is the proper balance? Regarding regular problems of life
to give me knowledge. I pray that His will may be revealed and that He can transform people’s hearts. Thus, even a young person and even difficult but not immediate problems, we must walk on
realized as a result of my wanting knowledge, and as a result of who has left the way of Hashem can change in a single moment and the path of an immense amount of gratitude and thanksgiving, so
my asking Hashem with a strong and powerful intent to attain true do teshuvah. If a woman wants a divorce so badly that she cannot that our prayers will not cast us away from our faith. But regarding
and complete knowledge. Hashem wants teshuvah. He yearns and be persuaded to work on the relationship, it is possible to pray and urgent and burning problems that threaten immediate danger, it is
wishes that everyone will do teshuvah. I pray on behalf of Hashem in so doing transform her heart so that she will want to remain with clear that there is no time for gratitude and thanksgiving. Instead,
that this intent will be realized and actualized in me, and in all her husband. I always believed and taught that if a defendant in we must cry out unequivocally with the faith that Hashem wants
people in the world, as a result of our having a pure and absolute a court case does teshuvah and prays, it is possible that the judge to save us.
intent that our entire goal will be to return to Hashem in teshuvah.” will absolve him of even the most serious charges. And I always
And apply the same approach to all blessings and to all parts of witnessed instances in which I was saved and I witnessed absolute Outcry
prayer. changes of nature, because complete faith is the vessel with which
to receive all salvation. You must review the following idea until it becomes an integral
Fifth Axiom: Hashem Wants to Spiritually Save Even part of your life: Hashem is all-powerful, and He wants to rescue
the Most Deplorable Person All of this refers to the physical realm. But now I realized that every person in every circumstance, immediately. If your faith in
in the spiritual realm I had not believed sufficiently that Hashem is
all-powerful. It is true that I believed and knew that my spirituality this is not strong and certain, it is deeply flawed. Therefore, your
However, even after you have read everything written here, you is in Hashem’s hands, and I prayed for spiritual growth at length prayers will be weak. Because your faith is not absolute and it is not
might still be misled and argue, “I have read and learned here that for hours upon hours, over the course of days and years. But when marked by complete intent, it cannot suffice to save you.
Hashem has a profound desire to help everyone who calls out to Hashem showed me this new light, I suddenly understood that I was
Him in truth and who does all of the work of the will. But that still lacking greatly in the faith that Hashem is also all-powerful A person’s completeness of prayer is expressed in his outcry to
doesn’t refer to a person as deplorable as I am, a person who is so in spiritual matters. Hashem, because that outcry conveys the wholeness of his faith and
vile and contemptible, a person who violates the entire Torah.” the wholeness of his will, as all of the will in his heart completely
This lack is expressed in two principal ways (as I have written): enters his prayer. Such a prayer is a perfect vessel that draws down
You must know that this is an utter falsehood. Hashem wants all salvation and immediately tears up every decree of judgment.
everyone without exception to be rectified and reach his goal. First, a lack of faith that Hashem can transform even the lowest Therefore, the baraita quoted above, in which Rabbi Meir teaches
If you have sinned, does Hashem want you to continue sinning, person into a Moses, that Hashem can make everyone into a that complete prayer brings about a person’s salvation even after all
heaven forbid? Even if your sins rise to the heavens, Hashem wants Moses. hope is lost, is followed immediately by Rabbi Yitzchak’s concluding
you to be as righteous as Moses—no less! In this regard, Rabbi words that “it is a good thing for a person to cry out to Hashem,
Nachman states that the essence of the perfection of a person’s Second, a lack of faith that Hashem can in a single moment nullify whether before the decree of judgment or after.”
faith is expressed in his belief in himself. Believe that Hashem wants a person’s every craving and give him every spiritual attainment for
to save you as much as He wants to save anyone else! which he prays—without delay, instantaneously. Take note that even after heaven decrees judgment, it is possible
to nullify it. What is the nature of the prayer that Rabbi Meir