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Master of the universe, I believe with complete faith Closing Words
that only You give the weary strength, only You give life,
only You can renew my strength and mind, only You This entire book from beginning to end provides the practical
can renew my faith. Give me wisdom, understanding, tools with which to attain the mighty power that is called “the
knowledge, awareness and complete faith to know that trait of the will.” In all things, we require will. The main thing
You alone give life. Only when a person clings to You that Hashem wants from everyone is his will. The essence of a
and binds himself to You does he receive life. Give me person’s free choice is his will. The purpose of all prayer, Torah and
the knowledge that sleep does not give strength and life mitzvot is to arouse the will and to work on the will, because the
but, on the contrary, sleep disconnects me from You, will is the strongest factor that binds a person to Hashem. By means
because when a person craves sleep, he disconnects of the will, a person is transformed and rises both physically and
himself from the Life of lives. Therefore, when he wakes spiritually. By means of the will, a person changes his evil nature
up, he is exhausted. In fact, sleep only removes a person’s and nullifies his evil cravings and traits.
energy and life. The hours that he sleeps disconnect him The practical application of this entire book is as follows. Dedicate
from Hashem and are a waste of time, in the simplest a set time every day with tremendous and unyielding regularity,
sense. Therefore, please eradicate all of my ideas that during which to arouse your will, build your will and express your
sleep gives strength and life, because all of these ideas will in your own words, speaking to the Holy One, blessed be
are complete heresy. Please give me faith and nullify this He, speaking with complete faith and great and deep intent, with
heresy. Help me instead attain holy sleep, during the inspiration and fervor.
entirety of which my soul will cling to You.
When we do this, we truly succeed in life. We truly choose
Master of the universe, help me cling to You 24 hours goodness. We come to truly keep the entire Torah and the
a day. Please, Life of lives, have compassion on me so mitzvot—in particular, the duties of the heart. We attain complete,
that I will not want to abandon life for even a single pleasant and sweet teshuvah, and we attain success in every realm
in life, from overcoming cravings and gaining control of ourselves
moment. Rescue me so that I will not forget You, I will to rectifying our traits and attaining absolute cleanliness and
not flee from You, and I will not abandon You for even purification from all of the vanities of this world.
a single moment. Help me be connected to You and to
have faith in You at every moment, so that I will cling Then we can truly live a life of satisfaction, a life of delight, a life
to You and I will be bound to You by learning Torah, of meaning, a life in which we bind ourselves to Hashem and cling
keeping the mitzvot and possessing simple faith—and the to Him, a life of true love of the Torah and mitzvot, and a life of a
main thing is by means of prayer and hitbodedut. As true bond with faith and everything holy.
Rabbi Nachman wrote, the essence of binding oneself
That which most binds a person with the Life of lives is the trait
to Hashem, may He be blessed, and of clinging to Him of the will. When we want, yearn and long for Hashem the entire
is achieved by means of prayer. When a person prays, day, we open up the supernal conduit of supernal life (the letters
heaven renews all of his strength, and he receives life of the Hebrew word for “conduit,” tzinor, may be rearranged to
directly from You. As the verse states, ‘You who cling to form the word ratzon, “will”), and it pours forth blessing and life,
Hashem your God are alive, all of you, today’ (Deuteronomy 17
