English Prayers From The Heart PDF

Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman
Prayers
from the heart
- Rav Nathan of Breslev -
Vol.1
In memory of
the chassidic Rabbi
Rabbi Israel Dov Odeser ztk'l
Student of Rabbi Israel Kardoner ztk'l
Student of Rabbi Moshe Breslover ztk'l
Student of Rabbi Natan of Breslov ztk'l
Student of the holy master
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman
And In memory of the chassidic
Amram Yosef b'r Moshe Nahum Halevi Horvitz zt'l
Meir Akavya ben Ya'akov Yemini zt'l
Aharon Ben Ya'akov Patz zt'l
‫ ה‬.‫ ב‬.‫ צ‬.‫ נ‬.‫ת‬
Introduction
Rav Natan’s Introduction

Rav Nachman cautioned us many times, in various
ways, to make prayers out of the Torah discourses. He
said that, from this act, great delight is created in Heaven
and he said that no such delight has ever come before
the Creator as the delight caused by these prayers made
from Torah discourses. He spoke of this time and again
with several different people.
However, he did not clarify fully what his holy intention
was in this matter but we understood from his words that
his main intention was simply that we try to delve into
his holy, awesome Torah discourses which he revealed
to us, to understand what he intended practically from
each discourse . We should consider our ways (and
perceive) how far away we are from the things mentioned
in each discourse, then pray and plead to God, with
many entreaties, requests and supplications, that He
have mercy upon us and in His bountiful mercy, bring
us closer to Him and that we merit to fulfill everything
stated in that Torah discourse. Then we should pour
out our hearts before the Holy One about all the things
mentioned there, asking that we merit to fulfill them and
ascertain them perfectly.
A person who merits to engage himself in making
prayers from Torah discourses, as mentioned above,
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will always easily be able express himself before God

and talk out everything that is in his heart by using each
Torah discourse. Even though at first it may appear to
him that this Torah does not speak about his own needs
and about his own weaknesses and flaws, when he starts
to talk using that discourse, God will certainly help him
and he can put all he wants to say into it; everything that
is on his heart, he can express by using each Torah; for
the words of our Rebbe, may his memory be blessed,
are very, very all-embracing. Each Torah discourse
comprises the entire Torah and the generality of Israel
and the generality of all things in the world. Each person,
whoever he is, whether on the very highest spiritual level
or whether on the lowest spiritual level, no matter what,
from the top of all levels to the bottom of all levels, each
one can find himself in all his aspects within each Torah
discourse of our holy, awesome Rebbe, may his memory
be blessed. Therefore, by each Torah discourse, every
person in the world, at all times, can somehow express
himself.
…Therefore, he who wants to have mercy on his soul
and to really and truly consider his eternal purpose in life
and who wants sincerely to come closer to the Holy One
(should know) that it is well known and very clear that it is
impossible to come closer to God, that is to say to break
and nullify all the bad qualities and merit to all the good
attributes and to progress in the pathway of God, other
than by prayers, supplications, cries for help, imploring
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and shouting to God, for many days and years. All the
tzaddikim and really kosher people merited to their
spiritual levels only by this, by prayers and supplications
as we have explained several times. However, to say many
prayers and supplications is also very hard for a person
because usually, one does not have the words to speak
out and express oneself. By this method, mentioned
above, of making prayers from Torah discourses, a
person can easily express himself about everything that
is in his heart, as explained previously. However, there
are also many weighty obstacles against this also, for not
every person is so familiar with the Rebbe’s words such
that he can make prayers from the Torah discourses, and
so it is with other numerous obstacles. Therefore I made
a point of copying from the prayers that I wrote for
myself, as the Rebbe told me. He said that it is good
to record for oneself the prayers when one merits to
(compose) a well arranged prayer so that one can say it on
another occasion. That is what I did. Afterwards I saw
that it is good to copy them in a general language so that
they will be equally valuable (useful) to each person and
then to give them to our followers so as not to ”withhold
good from its owners,” I saw that the (the prayers) are
of great generality and that they (speak of) matters which
each person needs, every single person according to his
spiritual level. Everyone needs them, from the greatest
to the smallest. There is nothing that a person lacks in
the matter of serving God that will not be found in these
prayers. When I copied some of them and gave them to a
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few people they liked them very, very much and pleaded
with me to copy all of the prayers for them. Although I
was uncertain in my heart about this, nevertheless I gave
myself into the hands of the Holy One alone; I relied on
Him alone. According to His good desire and the desire
of our Rebbe, so will I do.
Any wise person, who really and purely wants to, will
understand the virtue of these prayers. Prayers such as
these have never existed in the world. They are full of
good for the House of Israel – prayers, supplications,
requests, entreaties, words of pardon and appeasement,
confessions, claims, pretexts; great shouts, cries for help
and imploring to God, to arouse His bountiful mercy
upon us and asking that He bring us close to His service
very quickly indeed. These prayers also contain great
spiritual arousal that a person should use to speak to his
soul, in order to awaken himself so that his life should
not go by in a state of sleep, Heaven forbid. The power
of speech has great power to arouse a person, therefore,
when a person speaks out things, even though he knows
them full well in his heart, he will arouse himself. By this
he will strengthen himself, become full of determination
and yearn even more to come closer to the Holy One,
may His name be blessed, until he merits to really
perfect repentance. A person who says these prayers
regularly with truth and simplicity will certainly merit to
the Eternal Life.
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It is good to do both things, 1) to engage oneself in

meditation every day and speak to God about everything
that is in one’s heart, using one’s mother tongue and 2)
to make prayers out of Torah discourses, as mentioned
previously. It is impossible to clarify in writing all the
details about what a person needs, especially since all sorts
of changes occur to a person all the time. The Rebbe,
may his memory be blessed, warned us several times to
say many supplications and requests every day, all sorts
of supplications such as these which can be found in the
big prayer-books, or the prayer-books Sha’arei Zion, or
in other places. Even more so one should use the Book
of Psalms. And he who wants to fulfill the Rebbe’s holy
words, to engage himself in saying prayers, to merit to
the Eternal Life, his soul will certainly find these prayers
very, very sweet (pleasurable) for there are no prayers in
all the world in which a person can find himself such as
these which talk of all sorts of virtue and all the things
in the world, as a person can see for himself. Happy is
the person who uses them.
May God hear our cries for help and hearken to our
voices and to our prayers. May we merit constantly to
engage ourselves in prayers and supplications, whether
those written and arranged which are in our possession
or whether those that a person has to speak out by
himself from his heart in his own language every day,
as our Rebbe warned us many times; for this is the
main thing, as is clarified in his holy books many times.
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Through this, let us merit to really return to Him in

complete repentance, as is His good desire, until we
merit to rise up and be included in Him, in the light of
the Ein Sof and “to behold the beauty of the Lord and
visit His Temple” . In the merit of our prayers, bring us
our righteous Meshiach very speedily, in our days; for
the principal weapon of the Meshiach is prayer, as is
explained in the Torah discourse ‘Emor’ – “Say to the
Priests” – . One needs to strengthen oneself very much
in the matter of prayers and supplications, no matter
what happens, until God looks down and sees from
Heaven. “After two days He will revive us: on the third
day He will raise up and we shall live in His sight” that
we “may walk before God in the light of the living” .
Amen and Amen.
The one who waits for salvation, Rav Natan, son of
Rav Naftali Hertz, Nemirov, son-in-law if the famous
Rav, Gaon David Zvi.
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Table of contents
Table of contents
In this edition, each prayer number corresponds directly
to the chapter number in Likutei Moharan.
Subject Prayer No.

Advice.................................................................................140, 143, 169
Anger.....................................................................................99, 119, 154
Brit - The Covenant...........................................83, 130, 141, 169, 177
Calmness of Mind...................................................................... 78, 179
Children...............................................................................................151
Clothes.........................................................................................127-128
Confession.................................................................................. 178, 179
Controversy and Strife................................................. 75, 95, 136, 179
Death...........................................................................117, 144-145, 151
Desire and Yearning.92, 109, 142, 144-145, 154, 166-167, 177, 179
Eating.................................................................................. 125-126, 177
Enthusiasm and Fervour...................................................................156
Eyes...............................................................................93, 127-128, 133
Faith.................................... 91, 93, 108, 123, 129, 152, 154, 164, 173
Fear of God..................................................... 108, 110, 135, 146, 148
Happiness and Sadness....................................................169, 178, 179
Healing.................................................................................................179
Honour....................................................................................... 168, 172
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Subject Prayer No.
Humility............................................................ 130, 135, 147, 148, 168

Land of Israel............................................................................ 129, 154
Life and Longevity ..................................109, 144-145, 157, 159, 179
Love..............................................75, 93, 101, 115, 135, 165, 178, 179
Meditation..........................................................................108, 122, 178
Melody and Song....................................................................... 142, 149
Merit in Others ..................................................................................178
Messiah....................................................................................... 118, 178
Midnight Prayer..................................................................................149
Money........................................................ 80, 143, 153, 154, 159, 180
Overcoming Obstacles ................. 115, 142, 147, 149, 154, 178, 179
Peace.............................................................................. 75, 95, 136, 179
Physical Desires................. 75, 78, 101, 133, 144, 146, 157, 160, 179
Praise.................................................................... 99, 125-126, 142, 178
Prayers....................................................................97, 99, 122, 154, 179
Purity and Holiness of Heart.92, 108, 123, 137-138, 141, 156, 157,
165, 176
Repentance................................................................105, 109, 135, 179
Shabbat and Festivals.......................117, 119, 125-126, 166-167, 135
Shame...................................................................97, 108, 146, 147, 179
Simplicity.................................................................................... 123, 154
Sleep ....................................................................................................149
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Subject Prayer No.
Suffering................................................................... 106, 165, 170, 180

Controlling Thoughts................................................. 91, 97, 130, 133
Torah.... 75, 78, 92, 99, 101, 105, 110, 118, 133, 142, 146, 154, 157,
159, 164, 173
Travelling.............................................................................................154
Trust in God................................................................................ 99, 159
Truth................................................................. 115, 122, 123, 136, 171
Tzaddik ....91, 92, 110, 120, 123, 125, 129, 133, 135, 140, 143, 152,
153, 166, 176
Understanding.....................................91, 99, 101, 105, 106, 117, 171
Weddings.............................................................................................178
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Prayers from the Heart / Prayer 75
Prayers
from the heart
Prayer 75
Master of the World, merit me to the attribute of

peace. Let me be a lover of peace and to always pursue
peace. Guard me and save me through Your immense
compassion from the trait of wanting to triumph over
others and from controversy stemming from the other
side. Let my heart be free from these traits which come
from blood in the body which has not been used to serve
the Holy One. Have mercy upon me and merit me from
now on to study Torah and pray a lot. May I speak out
many words of Torah and prayer every single day until
I use every drop of blood in me to service God. May
all the drops of blood within me become holy words of
Torah and prayer until no drop of blood remains that
has not served the Holy One.
Father, merit me to serve You with all my strength
throughout my lifetime with every drop of blood that
I have. Let me verbalize so many words of Torah and
prayer that my body becomes completely negated as if
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it is actually nothing at all. Please merit me to perfect

fear before You at all times. Draw down and bestow in
my heart fear, shame, dread and a great awe before You
constantly.
Through this, merit me to clarify, elevate and purify all
the letters and sparks that fell into the world, as ‘broken
vessels’. As a result of my sins and enormous iniquities,
in this lifetime and in previous lifetimes. These sins
lead to controversy, doubts, confusion and obstacles to
Your holy service and from these stem all the physical
cravings in the world. May I have the strength to elevate
all the fallen sparks to You. As a result, may the Holy
One and the Shechinah be united and through this, may
a great and wonderful peace exist in the World Above
and Below and in all the worlds. Let there be great love
and peace between all the Jewish people and all created
things in the world.
Prayer 78
May it be Your will God our God and God of our

Fathers that in Your great compassion You help me and
merit me to sanctify the words of my mouth always. May
I say holy words every day constantly and pray a lot.
Protect us and guard us so that no word escapes our lips
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that is not according to Your will. May we never blemish

our speech. Rather, merit us to sanctify our speech at all
times and to speak abundantly, words of Torah, prayer
and other holy words.
My Father, compassionate Father, bring me close to
Your holy Torah. Merit me to study and contemplate
You Torah day and night until I merit to cool down all
the heat of my passion by means of my words of Torah
and prayer. For You know the degree to which my heart
burns with flames of fire; Sometimes my heart burns
exceedingly to you as a furnace, but out of control,
until my body could be burnt up God forbid and in the
middle of this my mind becomes confused and my heart
changes and burns God forbid to the physical cravings
as a torch of fire, like a burning oven which wants to
burn up my body and soul, Heaven forbid.
Now I have no wisdom or advice other than to shout
out to You until You bring me closer to You for Your
sake out of Your bountiful compassion. Hover over me
and protect me. Save me. Blow on my heart so that this
will put out the fire of my evil cravings. Drive out from
me the spirit of folly. Merit me to draw upon myself the
spirit of life, the spirit of holiness. May I fulfill the verse
which says: “Let the Book of Torah not cease from your
lips and you will study it by day and by night”.
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And merit us to recognize You truly above and beyond

all the worlds.
Prayer 80
Help me and bring me salvation so that I am always

ready to really sacrifice my soul to sanctify Your Name,
especially at the time of reciting “Shma Yisrael” and
praying. Merit me to fix in my mind very firmly, with a
strong desire, readiness to sacrifice my soul to sanctify
Your name while burning with enthusiasm so that I can
overpower my evil urge and thus give over all my body,
soul and all my money in order to sanctify Your holy
Name. May I, by this, be able to always pray with great
concentration in true holiness and purity. And let me
put all my mind and thoughts into the words of prayer,
connecting my thoughts to the words very firmly indeed.
As a result please find pleasure in my prayers.
God, I need many wonderful forms of salvations all
the time. In Your bountiful compassion open up Your
fountains of salvation. May the salvation flow and renew
itself all the time at every moment in such a manner
that we are saved from what we need to be saved
from. Sanctify and purify us, through these streams of
salvation, from all the impurities, stains and blemishes
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in the world. Fulfill in us the verse which says: “And I

will throw over You, pure waters and will You will be
purified; from all the impurities and all the idols I will
purify You”.
Master of the World who makes salvations flourish.
Fulfill our wishes for our good. Save us hastily and bring
us salvation both materially and spiritually in whatever
we need. And let this be in such a manner that I return
to You and come closer to You in truth.
Prayer 83
Master of the World. Merit me to guard the brit

perfectly. May I sanctify myself even in what is
permissible such that my marital relations will be an
aspect of “if meritorious the Shechinah dwells between
them.” You informed us that by blemishing the brit, by
a nocturnal emission, one causes a strengthening of the
harsh decrees and of God’s wrath in the world, Heaven
forbid. This is an aspect of “if not meritorious, fire
devours them”. Therefore let us give charity to worthy
poor people especially in an anonymous manner and by
this my all the harsh decrees which were created by a
blemishing of the brit be sweetened. Fulfill in us the
verse “Anonymous charity subdues the wrath”. Merit us
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from now on to be saved from all kinds of blemishes of

the brit.
Prayer 91
All Your commandments are faith. God of faith have

compassion over me for Your sake. Merit me to real
faith. Help me and save me so that I strengthen myself
with perfect faith constantly. Merit me to achieve higher
and higher levels of faith until I reach, understand
and ascertain in my mind things that I was unable to
understand previously. Enable me to acquire complete
faith so that it spreads through all my limbs. Master of
the World grant me faith. Master of the World, You
know everything that happens in the world with regards
to the holy faith which is the foundation of everything
especially what the Jewish People, Your holy nation
are going through, who are believers, the descendants
of believers. Even so there are thousands and tens of
thousands of levels in faith and all the troubles and
exiles that the Jewish People experience are because of
blemishes in faith for it is the basis of all Torah as the
holy Sages have revealed to us.
Master of the World, merciful One. How can we
rectify this? From where should we start to rectify it?
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In Your bountiful mercy, You sent us true holy and

awesome tzaddikim in each generation who revealed to
us wonderful and sublime Torah innovations. They draw
down and teach holy belief, eye to eye, to all people. But
even after all this we have not retracted from our mistakes
and this has caused us all the troubles that befall us. We
are in great distress, both generally and individually.
God of faith, have mercy on us. Save us. Hear my
prayers. Listen to my pleading. In Your righteousness,
answer me. Help me for Your Name’s sake.
Strengthen me to know and believe in You every
moment in such a way that I will be saved by this from
all kinds of sins, iniquities and willful sins, from all kinds
of bad thoughts and all sorts of confusions, especially
crookedness of the heart and thoughts against Your holy
faith. Teach us to draw upon ourselves holy faith which
our Fathers, Sages and tzaddikim achieved through their
immense holiness. Merit us to draw upon ourselves their
faith and their kindness and their goodness and their
righteousness for which they struggled and toiled with
self-sacrifice to bestow goodness upon all the people
of Israel, the Jewish People, for all generations; and
the main thing (they toiled for, was) to draw down and
reveal the holy belief to the whole world in general and
especially the holy People of Israel, The Jewish People,
the nation near to Him, His treasured nation. Help us
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and save us at this time of trouble for the sake of their

strength and their unfathomably great and awesome
merit. Save us God, for the waters have risen to drown
me. Merit us to complete faith in truth until I merit each
time, through the holy faith to come to understanding
and the holy faith spreads over all of us and into each
and every one of our limbs. Merit us always to talk about
the holy faith openly with our mouths, wholeheartedly
and in truth as it is written in Psalms “I will always sing
the kindnesses of God, from generation to generation
I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth”
and it is written there “and the heavens will acknowledge
you wonders O Lord; your faithfulness too, in the
congregation of the holy” and it is written in Psalms
“Your faithfulness lasts throughout the generations.
You have established the earth, and it stands” and it is
written there “I have chosen the way of faith. I have
put your laws (before me)” and it is written (Psalms) “for
God’s word (i.e. His judgment and decrees) is upright and all
His deeds are in good faith” and it says in the book of
Chavakuk “the righteous man who lives by his faith” and
in Psalms it says “my faithfulness and loving kindness
will be with him and his horn will be exalted through My
Name” and it says there “for God is good. His kindness
is everlasting, and his faithfulness (to keep His promise) is
throughout the generations” and the Prphet Hoshaya
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says “I will make you my bride forever. I will make you

my bride (in reward for your) righteousness and justice and
kindness and compassion. I will make you my bride (in
reward for your) faith. Then you will know God”. Blessed
are you Lord forever and ever Amen. Amen.
Prayer 92
Master of the World, You informed us of the greatness

of the holy tzaddikim who have the power to revive the
dead by walking back and forth in their house. By this
they sweeten all the harsh decrees. Have mercy on us
and let us come close to tzaddikim like these. Merit me
to engage myself in studying Your holy Torah every
single day so that I can cool down the fire which burns
in my heart for all the cravings and vanities of this
world. Rather, may my heart burn with great holiness,
yearning to Your Torah and Your service in the proper
measure. Let me cleave to Your Torah, so much that I
become merged with it in Your Oneness and let me be
numbered among the holy tzaddikim. And by walking
back and forth in my house enable me to sweeten all the
harsh decrees and draw down an aspect of the revival of
the dead.
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Prayer 93
Master of the World, merit us to perform the mitzvah

of “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart” which is the source of all the mitzvot. May I
engage in studying Torah a lot and serve Torah scholars.
Merit me to carry out business affairs with faith such
that the Name of Heaven becomes loved through me.
By this, enable me to reach a spiritual level which is
above time and to achieve expanded consciousness. As
a result, merit me to pray with great concentration and
a pure mind.
Merit me to holy eyes and a pure and very clear power
of vision such that through this alone I will be able to
look at something with wisdom and intelligence and with
perfect faith. Let me believe that in each object there
are letters and holy sparks. By this looking, may all the
sparks rise that are clothed in the object so they return
to their source in the aspect of “Engraved like a signet
ring, Holy to God.” And from the letters and sparks
may words be made and by these holy words bestow
much good to the House of Israel for this is Your main
delight, so to speak.
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Have mercy on all the letters and holy sparks which

are in a deep exile and speedily redeem them for Your
Name’s sake until Your glory is lifted up and exalted.
Prayer 95
You, Who makes peace in the heavens, bring peace

upon us and all the Jewish People. Master of the World.
Save me from all forms of controversy and from being
abused and attacked. Help me to avoid feeling proud;
may I never have a sense of pride in relation to any other
person.
Help all the benefactors and leaders of the generation
to avoid pride, Heaven forbid. Don’t let them be haughty.
Rather may they consider themselves to be an aspect of
“what” - non-existent and nothing. By this, save them
from all kinds of controversy and insults and arrange for
us benefactors and leaders who are pious and honest.
Prayer 97
Master of the World, You know how far I am from

proper prayer and supplications. The main reason is
because of thoughts that bother me, both before and
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during the prayers. Thoughts of self importance and

ulterior motives and many extraneous, bad thoughts
and confusions. They are endless and innumerable.
There are many prayers that are so mixed up with these
thoughts that I was unaware that I had recited words
of prayer. Many words of prayer and blessings I just
skipped over completely without noticing. What I recited
is as if I had said nothing, for the words were far away
from my heart. My heart was full of bad, extraneous and
confused thoughts. Where will I hide and conceal myself
in the face of my great shame and disgrace which is so
immense and bitter? The mouth cannot describe it nor
the heart imagine it.
I have come before You, Who listens to prayer and
chooses the prayers of the Jewish nation out of
compassion. You long for the prayers of Jews. For this,
You created the world. So, help us at all times to drive
out these thoughts which bother and confuse us and
merit us to pray before You with all our heart, with great
concentration from the depths of our heart truly. May
our thoughts be holy and pure so that our thoughts will
be connected firmly to the words of prayer, with total
unity. At the time of prayer let no ulterior intention or
extraneous thought enter my heart, rather merit us to
remove all these thoughts and the foolish vain ideas of
self importance. Help me to forget about any importance
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stemming from the status of my family and may I never

imagine that I have already struggled and achieved a lot
in the service of God. Rather, let me truly recognize my
deficiencies and my lowly status so that I will not have
any thoughts of pride or superiority.
Grant the power to rule in our prayers such that we
have the power to bring about what we want through
our prayers, even to alter nature. Fulfill the wishes of our
heart for the good out of Your mercy. Take delight in
our prayers always. Draw upon us Your loving-kindness
at all times; sweeten and nullify from upon us and upon
all of the Jewish People, all the harsh decrees in the
world. Break and nullify all the harsh decrees whether
those that have already been decreed or whether those
that they want to decree, Heaven forbid.
Master of the World, merciful One. Help us, like
You did for our Fathers. Protect and save us in every
generation. See our weakness and fight our battle (with
the evil urge). Redeem us speedily, a full redemption, for
Your Name’s sake.
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Prayer 99
Lord, open my lips and let my mouth speak Your

praises. Master of the World, merit me to pray before
You with great concentration and tremendous devotion.
Let my prayer be smooth and fluent in my mouth. Even
when I do not manage to pray with real devotion as I
should, nevertheless, merit me to put all my strength,
concentration and heart into the words of prayer with
maximum focus. May I truly believe and put my trust
in Your great loving kindness. And when You help me
to pray before You with great devotion, as is fitting, and
my prayer is fluent, then may all the other prayers rise up
together with this one that I merited to pray properly.
By this, enable me to always strengthen myself in the
service of prayer. Fulfill the verse which says: “May my
prayer come before You; give your ear to my song”.
Master of the World, merit me to engage myself in
studying Torah a lot. Enlighten our eyes in Your Torah.
Help me to ascertain the great light from the radiance
of the Torah. However, as I ascertain more each time
in the understanding of the holy Torah, so merit me to
add righteousness, piety and good deeds. By this, may
I be pleased with others without showing any anger or
strictness towards anyone at all. Rather let me be good
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to everyone. Even if I show to one individual some

displeasure about something I consider to be improper,
nevertheless let me speak to him positively and softly so
that my words will be acceptable and settle in his heart.
Fulfill in me the verse: “The words of Torah scholars are
calm.” “Let me find favour and good understanding in
the eyes of God and of people”.
Prayer 101
Master of the World, unique Lord, Who gives the

Torah. You revealed to us that all the strength of the
other nations is from the Seventy Faces of Darkness.
That is to say, by our being lax in studying Torah and
not studying in depth as we should, as a result, the
paths of Torah are blocked and become darkened in
our eyes. Then, all the physical cravings and bad traits
overcome us Heaven save us, for they stem from the
other nations whose strength is drawn from the Faces
of Darkness. This itself leads to the governments
becoming more forceful, Heaven forbid and they decree
harsh judgments upon us, Heaven save us. But what can
we do to rectify this. The burden of making a living, the
strength of the evil urge and the many troubles make it
hard for us to study properly. Even the little we study,
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the darkness in our eyes and our blocked minds prevent

us from studying or understanding properly. Mostly, we
do not understand even the simple meaning of things.
We certainly do not understand the depth of things, not
the pleasantness, inner essence or secrets of the Torah.
For we do not merit to see the light of the face of the
holy Torah. We are far, far away for the Seventy Faces
of the Torah, from the Seventy Faces of Light which
subdue the Seventy Faces of Darkness. When they are
subdued, automatically the governments of the seventy
nations, whose strength comes from those Seventy Faces
of Darkness, are broken and fall. But how do we merit
to this. In Your bountiful compassion, have mercy on us
and grant us a portion in Your Torah. Merit us from now
on to be aroused to serve You. Let us start from now
on to study Torah by day and by night. Do not let the
burden of making a living disturb us, rather let others
work for us. As a result, may our main involvement be
studying the Torah in this world and may it accompany
us to the World to Come.
In Your immense bountiful mercy, enlighten our eyes
in Your Torah and open up our hearts so that we merit
to understand well and with great speed any part of the
Torah we study. Let us study all the books of Your Torah
every day, Tanach, Talmud, Halacha, Midrashim, the holy
Zohar and the Tikkunim; all the writings of the Ariz”l
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and those of the true tzaddikim. May we finish them

and then study them again and again during our lifetime.
Have mercy on us for Your Name’s sake and merit us to
study consistently with holiness and persistence by day
and by night. By this, may we break, nullify and kill all
the evil cravings and all the evil traits in our body.
Merciful One, grant us intelligence and understanding
to hear, study and teach, keep and perform all the
words of Your Torah, with love. Merit us to put all our
mind and thoughts into Your holy Torah at all times in
such a way that the Torah will shine upon us the holy
pleasantness of the light of its face. May it radiate upon
us and protect us through all of the Seventy Faces of
the Torah which the true tzaddikim merited to ascertain.
As a result, enable us to break and nullify all the physical
cravings and bad traits from within us.
In these troubled times have mercy on us, do it for
Your sake, for the Sake of our Fathers and for the sake
of all the holy and awesome tzaddikim who were in
each generation. Then speedily break and nullify all the
harsh decrees from upon us, whether those that have
already been decreed or whether those that they want
to decree against us Heaven forbid. Let no impression
of them remain at all. May the words of my mouth and
the meditation of my heart be pleasing before Your
countenance, God, my Rock and my Redeemer. Amen.
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Prayer 105
May it be Your will, God, our God, God of our Fathers,

have mercy upon us. Help us to merit to engage ourselves
in studying Your Holy Torah. May the words of Torah
never cease from my mouth and the mouths of our
children, forever. Merit us to understand completely all
the words of Your holy Torah with great speed. Then
let us understand one thing from another and create
true Torah innovations, innovations that will find favour
before Your Throne of Glory. By studying Torah may
we achieve full repentance for all our sins, iniquities and
willful sins that we have committed over the years. Let
the light of the Torah really return us to the path of
goodness and through studying Torah may we separate,
collect and raise up all the holy sparks and combinations
of letters that have fallen from all the worlds into the
husks because of us. They have scattered to where they
have scattered and fallen where they have fallen.
Have mercy upon us, upon all the holy sparks and upon
all the holy letters which are separated and scattered
among the nations and among the husks. Help us to
return in true repentance to You. Please hasten to clarify,
collect and redeem all the holy sparks from their exile.
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Return them to their place in peace and by this, rectify

the blemish of the worlds.
Draw holy understanding and great mercy in the world.
Nullify anger and cruelty from the world. Please, You
Yourself, pray on our behalf. By Your simple mercy,
arouse Your great plentiful mercy. You know Lord our
God, that none can stand up for us other than You. Our
Father, our King, pray for us. We have no one to rely
on other than our Father in Heaven, so have mercy and
compassion upon us. Save us for Your Name’s Sake.
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my
heart be pleasing before Your Countenance, oh God, my
Rock and my Redeemer.
Prayer 106
You endow man with knowledge and teach understanding.

Grant us wisdom, insight and knowledge for You know
how greatly a person needs mercy if he lacks knowledge
in the service of God. You also informed us how all the
harsh decrees and suffering, Heaven save us, are drawn
upon us only because of brains of limited perception.
Therefore, have mercy on us, and in Your bountiful
compassion, merit us to strengthen ourselves each time
and rise from these ‘small brains’ to ‘expansive brains’ of
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understanding. Bestow upon us a bounty of knowledge

and wisdom. Merit us also to give intelligence to others
so that they will also have a radiance of true knowledge,
thus raising me from the aspect of ‘small brains’ to
‘expansive brains’. By this alone may my own brains be
aroused. Then sweeten and nullify from upon us and all
the Jewish People, all the harsh decrees. Fulfill in us the
verse: ‘Draw Your loving-kindness to those who know
You’.
Prayer 108
Master of the World, merciful One, Who cures those

with broken hearts, You know my broken and depressed
heart. Have mercy on my broken heart for it is broken to
smithereens; for the thoughts of my heart are scattered
and dispersed to the ends of the earth. I am really
responsible for all this but I did not have bad intentions.
Master of the World, You know the hidden secrets
of the world, You see into the chambers of our hearts.
Before You, all the hidden thoughts of the heart are
revealed. You know how hard this itself is for me; it
confuses and obstructs me a lot. Even if sometimes in
Your great compassion You send me some words and
I begin to explain to You all that is in my heart, after
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a while my heart becomes blocked in the middle of

speaking. So also my heart suddenly becomes sealed. I
do not know what to do. You seem to hide Your face
from me. You have already revealed to us that this is
caused by us blemishing our faith for this is considered
to be like idol worship. Now, my Father in Heaven, what
can I do to atone for this? Oh, what can I do to return
Your face towards me. When will I merit to pure faith so
that I can speak openly before You, as if face to face, like
one speaks to a friend.
Help me and save me so that I can accustom myself
to sigh, deep sighs from the depths of the heart about
my vast distance from You because of my many sins,
especially blemishes to faith. Merit me to truly feel my
pain and immense suffering such that I really sigh from
the depths of my heart. May my spirit be broken within
me in a way that will arouse Your true compassion upon
me. Open Your hand in mercy and good will and bring me
back to You in repentance face to face. Father in Heaven,
faithful King, God of faith, You know everything that
happens to us and to every individual regarding holy
faith. In You great compassion, You planted Your faith
within us, but because of the immense number of our
sins we still get thoughts of blasphemy. This is the main
cause of our distance from You. It causes a concealment
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of Your face, which is the greatest of all our troubles

and distress.
Guard us and protect us from now on from all sorts of
disbelief and blasphemous thoughts. Rather, merit me
to believe in You Lord our God, in Your Holy Torah
and in Your tzaddikim with total faith, a faith that is pure
and perfect. May my faith be so strong that it is as if I
see You, eye to eye. By this, may fear of You be on my
face; let me feel shame, so that I will never sin again nor
blemish in any way. Let awe, dread and fear of You, with
great shame, descend upon me immediately knowing
that You stand over me, and see my every deed , at all
times and at every moment. And merit me, through
the strength of my holy belief, to pray, plead and speak
openly before You with all my heart and with proper
thoughts. Let my mind be connected firmly to the words
of prayer without any extraneous thoughts and may all
my words and conversations with You be as if face to
face, like someone speaking to his friend.
Have mercy upon me like a father over his son. Save me
on every occasion by all kinds of salvation. May You be
blessed forever. Amen and Amen.
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Prayer 109
O Lord, our God and God of our fathers. Please help

me to return in really perfect repentance before You.
Master of the World. You know how greatly I have
distanced myself from You because of many and
immense iniquities and willful transgressions which
reach to the Heavens. I do not know any way to return to
You. My mind has become very confused, befouled and
materialized because of the material and foul matter and
evil cravings that have taken hold of me and attached
themselves to me very much. Master of all the World,
take pity and have mercy upon me; grant me good advice,
how to look for, search out and find some road, course
or pathway, such that from now on I can merit to return
to You. In Your bountiful mercy, let me merit to often
sigh before You from the depths of my heart about my
great distance from You. Let me merit to really come
closer to You. May I really sigh about this at all times
such that my body be broken by each and every sigh.
By these sighs, let me merit to extract the spirit and air
of the Other Side and to plant within me the spirit and
air of holiness. Through this, may I uproot and cut the
cord of impurity which has become tied to me because
of my many iniquities. Help me, very speedily, to cut
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and break myself completely from the cord of impurity.

Let me cleave and tie myself, in a very strong bond, to
the cord of holiness, for ever and ever, for all eternities.
Break, drive out and nullify from me, from my body, my
soul, my spirit and my higher soul, all sorts of impurities
of the Other Side. In Your mercy, bring me close to the
cord of holiness and tie me to it with a strong and firm
knot from now on, forever.
From now on, draw upon me a good long life, by way
of the cord of holiness. Be gracious and bestow upon
us good bounty, blessings, compassion, life, peace and
plenty; real life; life of holiness; life that has fear of
Heaven; life in which we merit to really perfect repentance,
in which we always serve You and cleave to the Source
of Life. Living God, our Portion in Life, our Rock, give
us life in the light of Your Countenance; raise me up so
that I live a life of holiness. Take pity on me, help me
and make my heart cleave to Your commandments. Let
me merit to always cleave to You forever more. In Your
mercy protect me and save me from sighs of the Other
Side. Let no breath or sigh for the cravings and vanities
of This World leave my mouth. Heaven forbid. Rather,
may all my sighs, yearnings and desires be only for Your
Name, for Your worship, to really come closer to You.
May I always cleave to You and may it be fulfilled in me
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the verse which says: “You who cleave to the Lord, your
God, are all alive this day”. Amen and Amen.
Prayer 110
Please God, save me in Your bountiful mercy, so that

I merit to engage in studying Torah for its own sake,
with great consistency and perseverance, by day and by
night. Be with me always to assist and save me so that I
will not materialize or darken the words of Torah in my
mouth, Heaven forbid. Rather, merit me to study Torah
with great holiness and purity, nullifying myself and all
my materiality at the time of studying. By this let me feel
in my heart and mind the sweetness and pleasantness
of the spirituality of the mind. Rather, merit me to pure
thoughts, holy thoughts which are really bright and
proper.
Let me constantly serve You with true Fear of Heaven
and wholeheartedly. Enable me to come close to genuine
tzaddikim and to pure, straightforward Jews until
they bring me into the realm of holiness and genuine
repentance.
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Prayer 115
You love judgment, therefore You agree so to speak,

to arrange obstacles that prevent us from the path of
life; this is what we deserve according to our deeds. But,
You let us know through Your holy Sages that You love
the People of Israel even more than You love judgment.
Therefore, out of Your great love for us, You desire
greatly that every Jew, even the worst of the worst, will
come close to You and serve You with all his heart. You
therefore, so to speak, hide Yourself within the obstacles
such that someone with understanding can look into the
obstacle and find You within it. For, in truth, there is
no obstacle in the world at all. Through the obstacles
themselves we can come closer to You if we really search
for truth. But You know the poverty of our minds and
their foolishness; such that it is hard and a burden for us
to break even one obstacle at all for as soon as we see an
obstacle we retreat.
Therefore, please bring us closer to You in charity and
as a gift out of loving kindness. Give us the strength
to break all the obstacles that come from the aspect of
harsh decrees and judgment. Sweeten and nullify all the
harsh decrees from upon us and from all of the Jewish
People. Do not let any obstacle prevent us from now on
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from truly coming close to You. Act charitably to us in

judgment. Blessed are You, oh King who loves charity
and judgment.
Prayer 116
Master of the World, merit me to give away a lot of

charity to deserving poor people. Make us feel in our
heart mercy towards poor people and merit us to bestow
upon them great loving kindness. By this, have mercy
upon us, as the Sages said: ‘Anyone who has mercy on
others, from Heaven they have mercy on him’.
Save us from all kinds of spirit of folly and by this,
protect us from coming to any form of sin. Merit us to
perform Your will all the days of our life. Amen.
Prayer 117
You informed us that every motzei Shabbat an aspect of

the revelation of Eliyahu the Prophet begins. Therefore,
have mercy upon us and merit us to receive the holiness
of Shabbat properly. By this, merit us immediately after
Shabbat ends to receive a true radiance of the revelation
of the prophet. Merit us to perform the mitzvah of
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Havdala over wine every motzei Shabbat. As a result,

enable us to receive radiance of true, holy understanding
such that we merit to serve You with full understanding
all through the week. Help us to distance all falsehood
which stems from an aspect of the serpent who brought
death to the world. Merit us to cleave to the attribute of
truth which is an aspect of the elixir of life. So may it be
Your will. Amen.
Prayer 118
Master of the World, who gives the Torah, have mercy

upon us and let us merit to engage ourselves in learning
Your holy Torah for its own sake, with great diligence
and perseverance. Grant us merit to learn a great deal
every day. Help us so that every holy book that we learn,
we be able to explain well, in a way that we understand.
Let this be in such a way that we merit to arouse and
draw upon ourselves the spirit of Messiah which is “the
spirit of God that hovers over the waters”, waters which
represent the Torah. Messiah suffers many illnesses and
is afflicted with great suffering because of our willful
transgressions and iniquities, this being in order to atone
for us and to save us from all the troubles. By this he
gives us a chance to survive. Have mercy upon him and
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upon us and let us merit to engage ourselves a great

deal in learning Torah. Let us explain well each thing
that we learn in a language that is understood, especially
when learning with friends or with students, such that
our words enter their ears and hearts. By this, let the
spirit of Messiah be aroused upon us. He suffers greatly
for us. He lowers himself and dresses himself in many
common, everyday appearances in order to be with us,
in order to revive us and establish us in the midst of this
long, powerful and bitter exile.
Our Father, merciful Father, have mercy upon us,
help us and save us, in his merit, in his strength. Save
us from all the troubles and from all the harsh decrees,
whether those that have already been passed against us
or those that they wait to decree. Heaven forbid, for
the “power of endurance fails.” Rock of Israel, rise
and come to the assistance of Israel. Speedily save us
in these troubled times through the strength and merit
of our righteous Messiah, the holy one of Israel. Fulfill
in us the verse which says: “Now I know that he Lord
saves His anointed (Messiah); He will hear him from His
holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand”.
And it says, “Great deliverance He gives to His king and
shows loving-kindness to His Messiah, to David and to
his seed forever.” And it says, “The Lord is their strength
and He is the saving strength of His Messiah.” Save us
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Lord: let the King hear us when we call.” Amen and

Amen.
Prayer 119
You grant knowledge to man. Please bestow upon us

wisdom, insight and knowledge. Through this merit us
to cleave to the attribute of compassion so that we have
compassion on others. Save us from all kinds of anger
and cruelty which stem from foolishness and a lack of
knowledge. Rather enable us to overcome this and listen
to ourselves each time to behave with compassion. As
a result please have mercy upon us from Heaven as the
Sages said: “Anyone who has compassion over others,
they have compassion on him from Heaven”.
You know how much we need a salvation and mercy
from Heaven, each person in his own way. Only You
know all the difficult experiences both spiritually and
materially that occur to us nowadays in general and
individually. You who know how great our weakness is
and the deficiencies of our knowledge. As a result we do
not have the power to arouse Your compassion over us
in a complete way. ’delete’
You revealed to us that the holy Shabbat is an aspect
of knowledge for on Shabbat each Jew draws upon
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Prayers from the Heart / Prayer 120 – 121
himself holy knowledge. Therefore, please have mercy

upon us and merit us to receive Shabbat properly such
that through this we will be able to receive the light of
knowledge. As a result, let us ascertain the attribute of
compassion and have mercy on other Jews, so that I can
do good for them, as is fitting. Save me from all sorts
of anger; sweeten and nullify all the harsh decrees from
upon us and from upon all the Jewish People. Amen.
May it be so.
Prayer 120 – 121
Master of the Universe, grant me the merit to come

close to true tzaddikim and to hear words of Torah
and inspiration from their mouths so that I will receive
real spiritual arousal in the service of God with fear of
Heaven. You know that I have already looked into a
number of holy books of ethics but I still have not really
been inspired by them. This is because books are on the
level of ‘action’ and after the sin of the golden calf we
lost the crown of ‘action’. So merit me to hear words
of Torah and inspiration with my own ears from the
mouth of the tzaddik for this is an aspect of ‘listening’
and ‘Comprehending’. If we hear directly from him this
will have more power to arouse us to truly repent.
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So merit me to yearn and long so much to serve You

with great desire that in any book I learn from I will
immediately find myself. In other words let me see
my own worthlessness and lowly spiritual status. As a
result may I get great spiritual arousal and inspiration to
serve You from each and every holy book that I study.
May I receive from them good advice, inspiration and
tremendous encouragement in Your service. Fulfill in
me the verse: “Then I said, behold I have come with the
scroll of the book that is written for me specifically”.
May I consider everything I learn from a book of God
to have been written “for me” as if it is speaks to me
personally, telling me to perform Your will. Amen. So
may it be Your will.
Prayer 122
Save me from the trait of wanting to triumph over

others. Let me feel more comfortable to be vanquished
than to win. For You know how very many people have
lost their world completely Heaven save us, through this
trait of being wanting to be a winner, for triumph does
not allow for truth. Even if a person sees with his own
eyes that something is true, he will reject it for the sake
of triumphing. Merit me to cleave to the attribute of
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truth and to always admit the truth. Let me always speak

the truth for specifically by this, I will eventually merit
to vanquish all those who oppose me and try to distance
me from the path of truth. Protect me so that I do not
mislead myself through the trait of wanting to vanquish
others.
You taught us that You yearn and long for the Jewish
People to triumph over You in their prayers such that
You change Your will, so to speak, to our will. You take
great delight when we triumph over You. And how could
we do this other than by You sending us the words and
claims by which to vanquish You.
So have mercy on me and send me words in order to
explain myself before You at all times with new and
proper claims, requests, supplications and appeasements
until I vanquish You so to speak. As a result, bring me
close to You, even though I am not deserving, for Your
compassion is immense Amen, so may it be Your will.
Prayer 123
“Fortunate are those whose path is simplicity, who

walk in the Torah of the Lord. I will behave wisely in
a perfect, pure way. When will You come to me? I will
walk with a pure heart within my house. Let (my deeds of)
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purity and integrity protect me. I hope and wait for You.
As for me I will walk in my purity; redeem me and be
merciful upon me”.
Master of the World, full of mercy, whose deeds are
perfect and who is pure and shows His purity with the
pure. Have mercy upon me and let me merit to real purity
and simplicity May I merit to really attach myself in
purity and simplicity to the real tzaddikim, the pious and
pure people in the generation who merited to serve real
tzaddikim and to receive from them the path of truth
and honesty. Grant me the merit to discard, remove and
nullify all my wisdom, intellect and perception before
them such that it is as if I have no intellect at all. Let
me fulfill all that they say and anything they say let that
be it! Let me not stray to the right or the left of what
they say. Master of the Compassion, have mercy upon
me and save me from all sorts of confusions, from all
sorts of worldly wisdoms that are not true. Have mercy
upon me and save me from them. Do not let my heart
be delivered into their ways. Let me not stray from the
words of the truly holy tzaddikim who lead us in mercy,
in truth and purity according to the ways of the Torah
that we received from the mouth of our teacher, Moses,
may he rest in peace. Protect us and save us from all
sorts of denial of faith and things that confuse our
faith, which are the result of these alien wisdoms. Let
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me merit to really and truly enter into the paths of purity

and simplicity in such a way that I merit to really perfect
belief and to fulfill all Your Torah with love, truth, purity
and simplicity all the days of my life.
“Let my heart be pure in Your statutes so that I will not
be ashamed”. For “You are the Lord, God, who chose
Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees
and gave him the name Abraham. And found his heart
to be faithful before You”. He walked before You in
purity and simplicity, for he was the first of all the true,
pure and honest believers who serve You in purity and
simplicity, in truth and perfect belief. In his merit and
the merit of all the true, pure tzaddikim, have mercy
upon me and let me merit to begin now to go in Your
ways, with purity and simplicity, with truth and perfect
belief. Remove from my heart its stubbornness so that
I will not lead my heart into foolishness, into paths of
worthless wisdoms that are so customary in the world,
wisdoms that severely confuse and prevent us from
thinking about our purpose in life, our final end and how
to really come closer to You. Let me clear out and drive
out from my heart all these wisdoms. May I really and
truly know the immensity of my foolishness and how
much I lack perception, as is written, “Surely I am more
brutish than any man and haven’t the understanding of
a man”. And it is written: “I was brutish and without
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knowledge: I was like a beast before You”. And, ”I said I

will be wise; but it was far from me”. Have mercy upon
me so that I will not mislead myself with any worldly
wisdom which can confuse so much. Rather, may I merit
to fulfill, with truth and purity, all that our true Sages say.
Let me nullify my perception and intellect completely
before them, as if I have no intellect at all, which is
really the truth. May I merit to fulfill the verse which
says: “Lord, who will abide in Your Tabernacle and who
will dwell on Your holy Mount? He who walks in purity
(simplicity), performs righteousness and speaks the truth
in his heart”.
May it be pleasing before You, Lord, our God and
God of our Fathers, full of loving-kindness, who does
much good, that, in Your bountiful compassion, You
have mercy upon me. Show me, teach me and guide
me in the ways of the real purity and simplicity, with
perfect faith, without any worthless wisdoms at all. You
know that we have no way to come close to You other
than by complete purity and simplicity, with truth and
perfect faith. I believe and understand from afar, that
even in the depths of our descent at present, in the
midst of the force of this bitter exile, in body and spirit,
there are ways of purity and simplicity and faith. Every
person, wherever he is (in terms of his spiritual level), can
remove himself from his exile and descent by means
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of the pathways of purity and simplicity; he can find

the straight way and correct advice, he can find You in
every place, even he who has fallen to wherever he is
fallen. Everyone can rise out of their fall and descent
and can come close and attach themselves to You. They
can please and appease You with purity and simplicity,
with prayer, supplications, truth and perfect faith, for
these You desire, as it says, “My eyes will be upon the
faithful of the land that they may dwell with me. He
who walks in a pure (simple) way, he will serve me”. And
it says: “Blessed are those whose path is simplicity, who
walk in the Torah of the Lord”. Let me merit to all that I
have requested before You. May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart be pleasing before Your
Countenance, O Lord, my Rock and Redeemer.
Prayer 125 – 126
Master of the World, let us merit to welcome properly

the holiness of Shabbat. May I merit to fulfill the
commandment of eating three meals every single Shabbat
and to fulfill properly the commandment of delight on
Shabbat, to eat, drink and have plenty of delights for
the sake of Shabbat. You know how great is the virtue
and the preciousness of eating on Shabbat. Grant us the
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merit to fulfill perfectly that which is written about eating

on Shabbat: “…eat it today for today is a Shabbat for the
Lord; today you will not find it in the field.” From this
the Sages learnt that a person must eat three meals on
Shabbat for “today” is written three times. Let me merit
to eat the Shabbat meals with great holiness and may I
have in mind at every meal that now I am not eating for
the delight (pleasure) of the body, nor as I eat during the
weekdays, when it is the usual custom of people to eat
not for the sake of a commandment but, rather, to stave
off hunger; for these are meals we are permitted (but not
commanded) to eat. Sometimes one eats because one is
hungry from the day before and sometimes one eats so
as not to be hungry the following day, but on Shabbat
let me have in mind at every meal that I am eating only
for the sake of the honour of the day, for the honour
of Shabbat, which is an aspect of “eat it today, for today
is a Shabbat of the Lord”. Through this, may the days
of the week have no hold or control over the holiness
of eating on Shabbat, for then I eat only for the sake of
Shabbat to fulfill the commandment of eating a Shabbat
meal and not because I want to prevent being hungry on
weekdays. May I have many good foods and drinks for
the honour of Shabbat and may I know and believe with
complete faith that eating on Shabbat is something else
entirely from eating during the weekdays. Outside forces
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(outside the realm of holiness) have no hold whatsoever

over our eating on Shabbat, for eating on Shabbat is all
divine, all holy, as You informed us by Your holy Sages,
may their memories be blessed. May I merit to draw
holiness from the holiness of eating on Shabbat to my
eating during the weekdays, as the Rabbis said of the
sage Shamai, who used to eat for the sake of Shabbat
every day, all throughout his entire life. May I also grasp
the attribute of the sage Hillel, who used to say, “Blessed
is the Lord every day”.
Let me not think or worry from one day to another at all
and let me merit to really feel in my heart the pleasantness
(sweetness and delight) of the holiness of Shabbat, and
to feel the holiness of the extra soul that comes to a
person every Shabbat. May I welcome the extra soul of
Shabbat immediately upon the entry of Shabbat and to
feel in my heart the pleasantness of its holiness such that
I immediately begin to long for and feel sorrow about
the loss of the extra soul (after the end of Shabbat). May I
merit by this to connect myself so much to the holiness
of Shabbat and the holiness of the extra soul which
comes on Shabbat that, during the weekdays also, there
will remain with me a great impression of its holiness.
Through this, may I also serve You sincerely during the
weekdays and draw upon myself every time the holiness
of Shabbat, and may I long for and desire very much to
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welcome the holiness of Shabbat, which comes with extra

radiance and extra holiness, until I merit by this to really
welcome every single Shabbat with extra holiness and
the most tremendous radiance. May I welcome the extra
soul, spirit and higher soul every single Shabbat in the
greatest possible spiritual level and may I merit to come
close to real tzaddikim who are themselves the aspect of
Shabbat, as the Sages said. May I feel the pleasantness of
their holiness, until, at all times (for many days and years), I
will have in mind great sorrow and great longing because
of my separation from them after they pass away, just
like the group of students of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
used to say when bemoaning the time when he would
pass away. Let me merit to think about this and to attach
myself so much to the pleasantness of their holiness
during their lifetime that, through this I receive from
them every time a great and true radiance in my mind,
in my heart, in my soul, spirit and higher soul, even after
they pass away; for tzaddikim after their death are called
“alive”. Even more so, tzaddikim are greater after their
death than when they were alive!
Let me merit to hear Torah from the mouth of true
tzaddikim and let me really feel the greatness of the
wonder and awe of their new Torah insights such
that I cannot stop myself from praising them in their
presence. Through this, may I merit to have revealed to
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Prayers from the Heart / Prayer 127-128
me more wonderful and awesome new Torah insights.

So too also with the holiness of Shabbat. May I say many
praises and sings songs of praise of Shabbat with great
happiness, with wonderful and great yearning, such, that
by this I merit to receive, even more so every time, the
pleasantness of the holiness of Shabbat. Fulfill in me
the verse which says: “If you turn away your foot from
(violating) Shabbat” etc. “and call the Shabbat a delight,
the holy of the Lord and honoured……. Then you shall
delight yourself in the Lord and I will cause you to ride
upon the high places of the earth and feed you with the
heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord
has spoken”.
Prayer 127-128
Master of the Universe merit me to always wear new

clothing that are complete and untorn for You have
taught us that clothes are the secret of ‘chashmal’ a
protective barrier. However, when clothes are torn this
spoils the protection. Merit us to guard our clothes and
to honour them properly, keeping them clean.
Please protect me so that I will not look at anything
that can damage my eyes even if it is only a moment’s
glance out of the side of the eye. Merit me to fulfill the
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verses: “Do not follow after your heart and after you
eyes” and “I have mad a covenant with my eyes”.
Prayer 129
May it be Your will, O Lord, our God and God of our

fathers, God of Faith, that You grant us merit, through
Your bountiful mercy and immense loving kindness,
to really perfect, wholehearted faith. May I merit to
believe in You and in Your true tzaddikim with really
perfect faith. May I merit to enter into, cleave to and be
enveloped within perfect, holy faith. Let me be strong
and bold in holy faith such that I merit to turn the
materiality of my body into the essence of holy faith.
May the holy faith consume me until all the evil which
has a hold in me be devoured and nullified. Let me merit
to turn from evil to good by way of perfect faith, so
that I merit to be included and nullified totally within
holy faith. Let me merit very speedily to come to the
land of Israel with out harm and there to come close
and cleave to true tzaddikim, with great attachment and
really perfect belief.
In Your great compassion, have mercy upon me; do
not repay me according to my sins. In Your mercy, open
for me the gates of holy belief; help me enter into faith
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with truth, to be enveloped within it completely such

that I merit to be consumed by faith and to turn into
its holy essence, the essence of the holy Land of Israel,
the essence of the holiness of true tzaddikim. Do not
let the Land or the holy faith vomit me out as it did to
the other nations who came before me. Even though I
am not fitting or worthy to touch holy faith or the holy
Land of Israel or to come close to real tzaddikim, for I
have committed many evil deeds and spoilt my holiness,
nevertheless, Lord, Your compassion is great. So have
mercy upon me, help me, save me and grant me merit
so that the holy faith will be able to stomach me within
itself and to always retain me, until I become consumed
and really changed into the essence of holy faith.
You, who are full of compassion, let me merit to
perfect faith in all aspects, for we have no hope or
support nowadays other than by holy faith. You know
the immense yoke and force of the exile upon our souls
because of the cravings of the body which overcome
us all the time. Because of our many iniquities, we no
longer have the strength to stand against them and
break them and nullify them completely. We have only
the strength of holy belief, that You will bring us into
faith, such that we merit to be consumed by faith and
change to the essence of holy faith. Our eyes, O Lord
turn towards faith. In Your plentiful mercy, let me merit
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to really perfect, holy belief, as is Your desire. “All Your

commandments are faith”. “I will sing of the loving-
kindness of the Lord forever; with my mouth I will make
known Your faith to all generations”. “For I have said:
A world of loving-kindness will be built up: Your faith
You will establish in the very heavens”... “Your faith is
round about You”. Fulfill in us the verse which says: “I
will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in judgment
and in loving-kindness and in mercies. I will betroth you
to Me in faith and you will know the Lord”. Blessed be
the Lord forever. Amen and amen.
Prayer 130
I have stretched out my hands to You. Instruct and

teach me Your paths of truth and Your upright advice
at all times in such a way that I merit to quickly repent
for having bad deeds and indecent thoughts. Then
merit me, as a result, for a speedy rectification of the
brit in a really complete way as You desire. Grant me
true knowledge and intelligence so that I will know
to truly feel my lowliness. Let no thought of pride or
haughtiness come into my mind for according to my
true worthlessness I should not have to pray at all to be
saved from pride. Who am I that I should feel any pride!
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But You know how strange thoughts of pride confuse

my mind especially when I want to perform something
in the realm of holiness.
Therefore I have come before You, Mercirful One,
Who knows the hidden things, have compassion on me
constantly and be with me on all occasions. Guard me
always so that no thoughts of pride or haughtiness come
into my heart at all. Rather, merit me to true humility
in such a way that I achieve real holiness of the brit.
You have already informed us throught Your holy sages
that by humility one merits to guard the brit. But save
us from false humility. Give me only genuine humility
as You desire. May the words of my mouth and the
meditations of my heart find favour before You, God,
my Rock and Redeemer.
Prayer 133
I have come before You, God my God and God of

our fathers, to ask that You have compassion upon me.
Grant me advice, strength and encouragement how to
block and remove my materialistic eyes and thoughts
from looking at the vanities of this world from now on,
especially when I begin to think about something which
leads to indecent thoughts, Heaven forbid. For the truth
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is that I believe that we always have free choice. However

because of the immense bitterness of my habits it is hard
for me to hold my thoughts in the realm of holiness. But
You can help me, for Your Name’s sake, for the sake of
Your honour, so save me from now on from whatever I
have to be saved from.
Arouse Your mercy upon me and come to my assistance
so that I merit to remove my eyes from looking at This
World both materially and spiritually. Just let me turn
my eyes, heart and mind to always look at the light of
the Torah and the true Tzaddikim who shine with their
great, awesome and sublime light. And may this nullify
from me all the physical cravings of the world. I believe
truthfully with complete faith that all This World and
all its cravings and vanities are no more than a spec in
comparison to the Torah and the Holy tzaddikim who
shine throughout all the worlds with a great wonderful
and awesome light. It is just that this world, which is so
small in size and essence and quality, appears in front
of the eyes of people and prevents or delays them from
perceiving the great precious light of the Torah and the
tzaddikim. Have mercy on us for Your Name’s Sake. Let
me not follow after my eyes; rather help me not to raise
my eyes to look at the dealings of This World, its vanities
and evil cravings which, in the end, are very bitter.
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Direct my vision and sight towards the light of the

Torah and the true tzaddikim at all times. By this, let
all the cravings and affairs of This World be nullified
from me. Merit me to spend all my days striving to come
close to genuine tzaddikim and for the holy Torah which
they draw down, reveal and radiate throughout the entire
world all the time.
Help us for Your Name’s Sake. Our Father and King,
reveal the glory of Your Kingdom over us speedily
through Your holy Torah and merit me from now on
to repent fully and purely as You desire. Shine Your
Countenance upon Your servant. Save us in Your loving
kindness. Amen.
Prayer 135
May I find favour before You, O Lord, our God and

God of our fathers, so that in Your bountiful mercy,
I merit to really come close and attach myself to true
tzaddikim, with real desire in my heart and soul, with
really great, powerful love. Let me love them with such
a great love that my love of them will be greater and
more wonderful than the love for women, until all my
love for women and craving for sex be nullified from me
by my overwhelming love of the tzaddikim. Take pity
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and have mercy upon me; let me merit to real love of

the tzaddikim and by this may I merit to attach myself
very greatly and firmly to them. Let my soul be tied up
in theirs in a very, very strong bond from now, forever
until eternity, for eternities.
May it be Your will O Lord, our God and God of our
fathers, that in Your bountiful mercy and tremendous
loving-kindness, I merit to welcome all the Festivals and
Holy Days with great holiness and purity, with great
happiness and joy and wisdom, with absolute perfection
as is really Your desire. May I behold the face of my rabbi
on the Festival even when I am far from Him. (When you
celebrate the Festivals fittingly it is equivalent to seeing your rabbi...
This is true even if you and he are physically miles apart! – Torah
135 Likutei Moharan).
May I merit to behold the faces of the true tzaddikim,

to recognize them and love them and to draw upon
myself their holiness by welcoming the Holy festivals
which are drawn from them. Through this, may I merit
to the Forty-Nine Gates of Wisdom which are revealed
and radiate on the Festivals. Open for me the light of the
holy mind; let me merit to a great and wonderful power
to really look into Your Torah and service. By this, may
all the foolishness of all sorts of self-importance, pride
and haughtiness be nullified. May I merit to completely
perfect humility as is Your good desire. Always draw upon
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me and all of Israel the holiness of Moses, our teacher,

may he rest in peace, who merited to real humility; as is
written: “Now the man Moshe was very humble, more
so than all other men on the face of the earth”. Have
mercy upon us, You who are full of compassion, that we
merit, through the strength of welcoming the Festivals
– “Festivals of the Lord, holy convocations” – to draw
upon ourselves the holiness of all true tzaddikim. May
all the true holy brains and intellect, drawn from the
Festivals, be drawn upon us by them so that, by this, we
merit to nullify and cast off from ourselves all sorts of
self-importance, pride and extraneous motives. Through
this, may we merit to real humility, to the humility of
Moses, our teacher, may he rest in peace.
Master of the World, You know my great distance
from true humility. “Surely I am more ignorant than
any man and have not the understanding of a man”.
In my many iniquities I do not know at all what true
humility is, for humility is greater than everything. Lord
of compassion, have mercy upon me and let me merit
to the real holiness of each Festival until I merit by this
to know and acknowledge very well the virtue and the
greatness of the true tzaddikim, until I nullify myself
to them in utter self-nullification. By this, may all sorts
of pride, haughtiness, self-importance and extraneous
motives and everything else bad that one can talk of or
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think of be nullified automatically from me; such that I

merit to real humility as is Your real desire.
Master of the World, let me merit to fear Your Name
really and truly and wholeheartedly. Fulfill in us the verse
which says “Through humility (comes) fear of God”. Let
me to merit return in complete repentance before You
through the radiance of the holiness of the Festivals,
for You have already revealed to us that the Festivals
are days of judgment, days of repentance. Through this,
may I merit to rectify all the blemishes that I caused to
the aspect of the Kingdom of Holiness by my immense
iniquities and willful transgressions. I caused, so to
speak, the Kingdom of Holiness to fall. By this the four
kingdoms of the Other Side became stronger, especially
the husk of Amalek, may his name be wiped out, for
he is the generality of all husks; as it says: “The first
of the nations is Amalek”. Therefore take pity and have
mercy upon me and return me in complete repentance
before You. Through this, may I merit to raise the holy
Kingdom from its fall; so that all the four kingdoms of
the Other Side be nullified, especially the kingdom of
Amalek, may his name and memory be wiped out.
May I merit to come close to and really attach myself to
true tzaddikim who occupy themselves with elevating the
aspect of Kingdom. They create the principal holiness
of the Festivals, which is the raising of the aspect of the
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Kingdom of Holiness from among the husks and the

nullifying of all the power and rule of the four kingdoms
of the Other Side. Therefore, by attaching myself to
true tzaddikim, maybe someone very lowly, rotten and
insignificant as myself can also welcome the holiness of
the Festivals such that I merit to real humility, true, holy
fear and to perfect repentance and speedy redemption;
as the rabbis of bless memory said: Repentance is great
since it brings closer the redemption”.
Prayer 136
My Father in Heaven. Assist me and save me so that

I may judge every Jew on the side of merit, even those
who incite controversy against true tzaddikim and even
insult them. Merit me to fulfill that which the Sages
said. “Do not judge your fellow until you arrive at his
place”. In this way may all the controversy in the world
be nullified and let great peace be drawn down so that all
Jews become united.
In Your bountiful mercy, help me to repent quickly with
a complete repentance before You, in truth until I reach
the holiness and virtue of all those Jews who are above me
in their holiness and purity; that I truly reach their place
and unite with them with truth and great peace. And, if
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on the contrary, their dispute against us is because they

are far and lower than us and therefore, they are jealous
and argue against us, then, please have mercy on us for
Your name’s sake and merit us to judge them favourably
at all times and teach us, in your abundant mercy, to
find in them merits and goodness even in the fact that
they dispute with us. In such a way may I raise them up
and cause them to enter them into the scales of merit.
Then they will unite with us totally and perfectly and
controversy will be nullified from among all the Jewish
people. Please put into the hearts of those who oppose
and dispute the truth the thought that they retract all
their hate and controversy and instead pursue truth and
peace. And those who hate and oppose the truth, who
do not really desire peace, subdue them and bring them
down to the dust.
Have mercy for Your Name’s sake. Place peace in the
world for You know how much controversy damages the
Jewish People. Merciful One, in Your awesome wonders,
act to draw down real peace into the world. Fulfill the
verse: “May He who makes peace in the Heavens, bring
peace upon us and upon all the Jewish People. Amen.
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Prayers from the Heart / Prayer 137-138
Prayer 137-138
Master of the Universe, help me to nullify and subdue

the coarseness of my body; it opposes the light of my
neshama which is a holy portion from Above. Merit me
to hear well in my heart what my neshama tells me and
teaches me about keeping Your commandments. Purify
my heart to serve You truthfully. May I subdue and
nullify the evil urge that dwells in my heart until ‘my
heart is a void within me’. Help me to purify and cleanse
my heart from all kinds of extraneous and bad thoughts.
Merit me to be totally honest with a pure heart. Through
this, may the truth of the light of Godliness be revealed
and shine in my heart, for you informed us that the heart
of each Jew is full of Godliness.
Purify my heart so much that I will be able to know
future events for my heart talks to me. Merit me that
everything my heart tells me will really be the word of
God.
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Prayer 140
Please merit me to come close to true tzaddikim and

to really believe in them. Even though I have no real
grasp of them and their great holiness, nevertheless,
help me to have a little understanding of the great virtue
of the tzaddikim by seeing the excellence of those who
are attached to them and serve You with perfect fear.
Therefore, merit me not to have any doubts or questions
about the true tzaddikim. Rather may I really believe in
them even though I have no grasp of their spiritual level,
for they are far beyond our human intelligence. Merit
me to be counted among their followers and to come
close to true tzaddikim. Let me listen to their advice and
perform everything they teach me so that, by this, I can
reach complete success, spiritually and materially in This
World and the World to Come. Amen, may it be so.
Prayer 141
God, my God, God of my Fathers, help me and save

me. Out of Your great loving-kindness enable me to
really feel the pain of my many, sins, iniquities and willful
sins which are vast, reaching as they do to the heights of
the heavens. This is especially true regarding blemishes
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of the brit. I have spoiled the drops of the brain by

expending them wastefully, whether intentionally or not.
If I were to begin to feel the pain of the immensity of
this great and awesome sin, I do not know if I could
survive even an hour. You informed us, through Your
true tzaddikim the seriousness of this blemish. It causes
the extension of the destruction of the holy Temple,
delays the Redemption and causes the Shechinah to
descend into exile, Heaven forbid. We draw enslaved
souls into the realm of the husks and from each wasted
sperm we create damaging forces, Heaven preserve us.
Through this we spoil all the twenty-two letters of the
Torah which are included in the drops of semen.
The truth is that my heart is so blocked, confused and
crooked that I do not feel the pain of my sins at all,
despite their immensity. And even if I say ‘oih and woe’
a thousand times I still do not feel the pain at all.
Help me to speedily merit to return to You in repentance
with all my heart. Open my heart in such a way that I will
really feel the pain of my enormous sins. Just let me
shout out from my heart, a great and bitter scream as is
fitting to shout out about my sins. I will shout out to You
with all my heart, with a truly broken heart until all the
hearts of all the wasted sperm will feel it, wherever they
got drawn to. Then all their hearts will be circumcised
such that they feel the immense pain and distress of
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their being in the depths of hell and places of filth. Let

me make such a great noise among these drops that they
are all aroused to return to You. May they start to feel
remorse and really long for a rectification.
Please God, deal with our rectification and redeem us
speedily from all the filthy and spoilt places. Circumcise
our hearts so we will love Your Name. Merit me very
soon to circumcise the foreskin of my heart and the
hearts of my offspring, especially during the holy days
of Elul. Help me to prepare myself so that in the month
of Elul I will merit to fully circumcise my heart and
those of my children As a result, may the true tzaddikim
rectify me and my family completely during my lifetime.
Prayer 142
“My soul desired and even longed for the courts of

God; my heart and my flesh sing out for the living God”.
“My soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a
dry and thirsty land where there is no water.”
“My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when will
I come and appear before God.”
Master of the World, You know how very great the
obstacles are that I now face in all the things related
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to holiness such as Torah, prayer and good deeds. It is

impossible to clarify even the minutest part of the many
confusions and obstacles and delays that I encounter in
everything to do with holiness. Even when I perform
some commandment, or do something holy, it is very,
very confused and muddled. It is very far away from
the perfection of the rectification that we need to
accomplish by each commandment, for, through my
many iniquities, I have become very distant from Your
Torah and Your commandments. In my own eyes I am
really like someone wandering, lost in the desert, in a
place of darkness and bleakness, of very great darkness.
I do not have any idea at all what to do so as to return
to the true, straight and proper path, to be really, perfect
as You desire. I walk in the ephemeral world. “I am like
a drunken man and like someone overcome with wine”
wandering to and fro. I am confused and mixed up with
thousands and tens of thousands of confusions upon
confusions and multiple obstacles which prevent me
and confuse me from truly perfectly coming closer to
You and Your Torah – for which purpose I was created.
What will I do on the day of reckoning? “What shall I
do when God rises up? When He visits judgment, what
shall I answer Him?” I do not know at all with what
to revive my very, very miserable and bitter soul, which
is blemished and mixed up so very much, other than
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longing, yearning and wanting to come closer to You, to

Your service and to Your Torah, for there is an immense
virtue to holy desire and longing, as revealed to us by our
holy Sages.
Therefore, I have come before You, my Father in
Heaven, my Father, Father of mercy, who grants good
even to the guilty. Grant me much good and let me
merit to always yearn for, long for and desire You, Your
service and Your Torah with intense longing and strong
and forceful desire; until, in Your mercy, I merit to
learn a great deal every day and to recite many prayers,
supplications, requests, tunes and songs of praise, every
single day. Help me to perform many commandments
and good deeds every single day of my life. Even when,
according to Your desire, there is a need to stop learning
etc. and even if sometimes I am in places where it is
impossible to learn and to engage in Your service, grant
me merit and help me that I have a craving and strong
desire to learn Torah and to really serve You until this
desire rises before You and is considered as if I actually
performed a commandment or learnt Torah. You, who
are full of compassion, have mercy upon me and help
me to start training myself to always yearn for, long for
and desire Your Torah and Your service very strongly
and sincerely, and to really come closer to You. Through
this real desire and willpower in the heart, may I merit to
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learn from the Supernal Book, written on the Supernal

Heart by the true tzaddikim, for You hearken and listen
to the words of each one of them in his own place.
You join them together and write from them a book
of remembrance for those who think in their heart and
really desire to learn Your Torah and to do Your will, as
is written: “Then they who feared the Lord and thought
about His Name”. Let me merit also to receive and draw
upon myself a great radiance from this Supernal Heart
and to learn from this Supernal Book. I am far away
from everything but I anticipate Your mercy and Your
loving-kindness and that You will grant me the merit to
a real desire and longing to come closer to You, to Your
service and to Your Torah. Let it be in such a way that I
quickly, sincerely return to You, as is Your good desire.
Take pity and have mercy upon me in Your bountiful
mercy, in Your great mercy. Help me, for I have relied
upon You for support. “For You are the glory of their
strength; in Your favour our horn will be exalted”. “ May
the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing before Your Countenance, O God, my Rock
and my Redeemer”. Amen and Amen.
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Prayer 143
“You will guide me with Your advice and afterwards

receive me to glory”. Master of the World, my King,
my God, to You I will pray…Have mercy upon me for
Your Name’s sake, for You know how great is the lack
of advice and how immense are the doubts I have about
everything. Usually my advice is ambiguous. I do not
know how to give counsel to my soul about anything,
whether important or insignificant. This greatly prevents
me from serving God and from true repentance. Master
of Compassion, have mercy upon me. “Great in advice
and mighty in deed”, let me merit to always accept all
the advice from the true tzaddikim and really righteous
people of the generation whose advice all comes from
the Torah and they received it from their rabbis, the
holy, true tzaddikim. May we merit to really come close
to them and to accept their advice about everything in
the world, whether worship of God, trading, business,
money matters and all other things. Let me ask their
advice with regard to all things and let me merit to
receive counsel and wisdom from them. Let their
wisdom radiate within me and by this, let great loving-
kindness be drawn upon me. Sweeten and nullify from
upon me all the harsh judgments in the world. Let me
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merit to complete salvation at all times, as it says: “There

is salvation in the multitude of counsel”. Protect me
and save me at all times so that I never stumble because
of bad advice, Heaven forbid. Save me from drawing
upon myself any anguish, suffering or damage. Heaven
forbid, by foolish advice, Heaven forbid. Rather, let me
always strive to accept all advice from the real tzaddikim
and righteous people of the generation, in such a way
that their holy wisdom radiate within me. Arouse Your
great mercy and loving-kindness upon me at all times;
always save me from what I need to be saved from, both
physically and spiritually…May the words of my mouth
and the contemplation of my heart find favour before
You, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. Blessed be the
Lord forever. Amen and Amen.
Prayer 144 – 145
You who revive the dead with great compassion; in Your

bountiful mercy, revive me and preserve me and save me
so that I merit from now on to conquer my evil urge
and help me to always be in complete control of my
desires, even the desires that are permitted, even on the
day when food and drink are permitted. With regard to
these desires, let me merit to behave, in great holiness and
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purity for Your Name’s sake alone, without any desire of

the body at all. Master of the World, say to my troubles,
‘Enough!’ Quickly deliver me a complete salvation
from all the desires of This World. Take pity and have
mercy upon my wretched soul, which has already been
blemished a great deal by evil desires, as You know. In
Your great compassion and great loving-kindness, have
pity upon me, from now on, and grant me the power
and might and true advice at all times in such a way that
I merit to nullify all my desires completely, until I merit
to the true life, the eternal life, in This World and in the
World to Come. Even when the time comes for me to
depart from the world let there be no difference for me
between life and after death. Rather, let it all be the same.
Let me always merit to serve You truly, whether whilst
alive in This World or whether after my passing on to
the World to Come, such that I always be alive even after
my passing away. Let me live and never die. Let me be
amongst the tzaddikim who, even after their death, are
called ‘alive’. “I will walk before the Lord in the land of
the living”. I shall not die but shall live and recount the
deeds of God”.
Master of the World, save me from dispute. Help
me and save me so that I can hold back my desire for
discord. Let me not have any desire to be involved in
dispute, Heaven forbid, rather let me always try with all
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my might to quieten the dissension and dispute. May I

always really chase after peace until, by this I merit to
have people learning as a Torah law my innovations in
Torah, in my name after my departure from This World.
May my lips murmur in the grave and let me merit to
live in two worlds and never die. Rather, let me always be
really within the generality of life.
Prayer 146
Master of the Universe, You informed us that even

when the physical cravings of a person are at their
strongest such that it is difficult to break them or hold
himself back from them, even so the Torah stands by
a person and calls him, announcing: ‘Until when, fools,
will you love folly’? And even though he may not hear
the call because of his cravings, after the craving finishes
he will immediately hear the call. As a result he will
feel regret about the sin or craving; for he heard the
wisdom of the Torah which makes the fool wise. You
also revealed to us how the Torah gives witness about
man’s deeds, since it stands after a person and calls him
even at the time when he acts indiscreetly. Therefore,
have mercy on us so that we remember each time that
the Torah is united with You. As a result, it goes with us
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to all the lowliest and dirtiest places and calls us to turn

aside from the paths of hell and death.
Through this we can break all our cravings and because
of the immense shame and fear of God, we will have fear
of the holy Torah which stands before us and constantly
calls to us. How can we raise our heads before You when
the Torah itself gives witness about our deeds?
Master of the Universe, have mercy on us from now
on and merit us to abandon our evil ways very speedily.
Let us return to You, for You are bountiful in Your
forgiveness.
Prayer 147
Merit me to holy audacity so that I can be as bold as

a leopard. Let me have holy audacity against all those
who stand in my way preventing me from serving
God, Heaven Forbid. Help me to be very strong in my
boldness against them. Let me never be ashamed at all
by their mockery nor spend time arguing with them. On
the contrary, however much they rise against me to stop
me from Torah and Prayer , may my holy boldness just
become that much stronger, so that I can break all the
obstacles. Someone who lacks this holy boldness lacks a
portion in the holy Torah for the main strength in Torah
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and serving God depends on this holy boldness. This

boldness adds strength and might in the World Above,
so to speak. Then, from Above, they in turn add strength
and holy boldness to the person so he can withstand all
the obstacles and break them. Please help me to begin
and also to bring to completion anything I want to
achieve in the service of God.
Similarly, merit me to find the right path in the attribute
of humility so that I can be very lowly and humble in
relation to all other people. However, let me not be lowly
and worthless in my own eyes such that I feel ashamed
when mockers stand in the way of my serving God. On
the contrary may I strengthen myself with holy boldness
against them. Let me not take any notice of them at all.
Then draw upon me a radiance of the true humility of
Moses.
Prayer 148
Merit me to perfect fear of God, as it says: “The heel

of humility is fear of God”. “The beginning of wisdom
is fear of God”. There exists one fear above another.
Let me go from one level of fear to progressively higher
levels. Merit me to draw upon myself, Your holy fear
from a successively higher level such that I achieve
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loftier and loftier levels in the attribute of fear, without

end. Amen, so may it be.
Prayer 149
“At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You because of

Your righteous judgments”. You, who are full of mercy,
who awakens the sleepers and arouses the slumberers.
Take pity and have compassion upon me; in Your
bountiful mercy, let me merit to rise every single night
of my life at exactly midnight. Let me merit to awaken
from my sleep at exactly midnight, with tremendous
speed and without any laziness or difficulty at all. Do
not let sleep or slumber overcome me, Heaven forbid.
Do not let anything prevent me from this.
In Your bountiful mercy and great loving-kindness
awaken the northern wind which blows through the
harp of King David at midnight, and from there let
there be drawn upon me a spiritual arousal, so that I
always awaken from my sleep at midnight. ‘Awaken, my
honorable soul awaken; with the lyre and harp I will
awaken the dawn”.
Master of the World. You warned us in several ways
to always rise at midnight, as is written in the holy
Zohar where there are awesome warnings about this.
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However, You know that the obstacles have multiplied

and overcome each one of us, preventing us from this,
such that most nights we have not managed to rise at
midnight. Therefore, Master of all, abundantly strong
to save, I have come before You; give me advice how to
merit to this, to always rise at exactly midnight which is
immediately after six hours from the beginning of the
night, both in summer and winter. Let me awaken then
with great speed and say the Midnight Prayer; to mourn
and wail over the destruction of the Holy Temple; over
the exile of the Torah whose secrets have been passed to
external forces; and over my many and enormous sins,
iniquities and willful transgressions which have caused
all this and lengthened the exile so much. Maker of all,
it is clear to You how very much I have lengthened the
exile because of my many transgressions, both generally
and specifically. Oh, Oh, woe is me! What can I say?
What can I speak? How can I justify myself ? Behold,
I stand before You in great guilt. What has passed has
passed. Let me merit from now on to truly return to the
straight path. Let me not lose any night of my nights
by not rising at midnight. Always be with me; help me
and guard me so that rising at midnight will not harm
me in any way at all. Let me not suffer any headache or
any harm from this. My Father in Heaven, raise me and
hasten me. Grant me merit from now on always to rise
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exactly at midnight, every night whether on a weekday,

Shabbat or Festival, whether at home or traveling and to
recite the midnight prayer to sweeten and nullify all the
harsh judgments from upon myself and all my family
and all Your Nation, the sons of Israel.
Let me look at the heavens every morning and by this,
help me to draw upon myself holy perception, a refined
and pure perception, a true perception by which I can
merit to really return to You, to be really as You desire
from now on and forever. Let there be drawn upon me
every morning a thread of loving-kindness from the
‘morning of Abraham”. May you fulfill the verse which
states: “The Lord will command His loving-kindness in
the daytime and in the night His song shall be with me; a
prayer to the God of my life (who gives life)”. And it says,
“Your loving-kindness O Lord is in the heavens; Your
faithfulness reaches to the clouds”. And it says, “They
are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness”. May
the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing before Your Countenance, O God, my Rock
and my Redeemer. Amen and Amen.
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Prayer 151
“New moons You gave to your People as a time

of atonement for all their offspring” Master of the
Universe, merit me, among all the Jewish People to bring
up my children to Torah, marriage and good deeds. Save
us, from now on, from all kinds of anguish regarding
our children. Draw upon us and our offspring long life.
Master of the World, You informed us that the death
of small children, Heaven preserve us, stems from the
blemishing (waning) of the moon for this indicates a lack
of light which leads to children’s illnesses, Heaven forbid.
But on Rosh Chodesh (the first day of the new month) the
moon’s light begins to grow and become rectified. This
is the time of atonement for all our offspring. Then,
atonement, forgiveness and a sweetening of harsh
decrees are drawn into the world. Therefore please merit
us, in Your great mercy, to receive the holiness of the first
day of each month, as is fitting. May it be Your will that
You raise us in joy and return us to our land and there,
we will bring sacrifices before You both the obligatory
continual offerings and the additional offerings of Rosh
Chodesh. Let us bring them before You with love, as we
are commanded.
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You know that when we learn or recite the passages

about sacrifices it is considered by You as if we had
actually brought them at their proper time and place.
Therefore, may it be Your will that by reciting the passage
“on the first day of each month” whenever we do, even
when not on a Rosh Chodesh, it should be considered
as if we had brought the sacrifice on Rosh Chodesh
itself. By this, draw down a rectification and fullness
to the moon. And by this, bestow upon us atonement,
forgiveness and a sweetening of harsh decrees. And may
all the offspring of the Jewish People merit to have good
long lives. Enable us to perform the commandment of
blessing the new moon every month in the proper time,
as You desire. Amen.
Prayer 152
Master of the Universe Who forgives and pardons our

sins. As a free gift, grant us lovingly Your holy faith. Merit
us to real belief in Torah scholars and tzaddikim. Save us
so that we can enter the gateways of holiness and really
come close to genuine tzaddikim. Have mercy on us in
Your bountiful compassion and grant us complete faith,
really and truly. You know we have no hope apart from
faith in the tzaddikim; without them we cannot raise
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our hands or legs. Do it for Your Name’s sake. Don’t

ever throw us away from holy belief. Don’t close the
entrance. Please don’t lock the door in our face, Heaven
forbid. Have compassion upon the Jewish People. How
will someone like me, filthy with bad deeds, enter the
gateway of holiness which is holy belief ? How can I
come close to the true tzaddikim who are the source of
my soul?
Open up for me the entrances to the realm of holiness.
Bestow upon me Your holy belief so that I will merit
to be bold, strong and consistent in my holy belief,
believing in true tzaddikim, coming close to them and
drawing vitality from their holy wisdom. Break, uproot
and nullify all the husks and forces of evil that encircle
them. All the opposition to the tzadddikim, doubts,
questions and confusions about them stem from these
husks. So, please open for us the gateways of faith in such
a way that no husk or evil force will have the strength
to hide the truth from us or close the gateway, Heaven
forbid. Master of the World, full of compassion have
mercy on us and command all the guards that stand in
the entranceway to be nullified and driven away. Remove
the barriers from the entrance.
Help me and my offspring and all Jewish children to
have real self-sacrifice being prepared to give away our
bodies and souls and money in order to come close to
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the true tzaddik in such a way that we draw from his holy
wisdom. God, please redeem us speedily both generally
and individually. Don’t caste us away from before You
and don’t take from us the spirit of Your holiness. Don’t
caste us into old age or desert us. When our strength
fails, open the gateway for us before it is locked. Many
days and years of our lives have already passed and
the gateways of holiness are still closed to us; they are
locked in our face because of our many iniquities and
immense sins. Arouse Your mercy over such a poor soul
as myself who has been standing near the entrance for
many years. Don’t hide Your countenance from me. May
the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart
find favour before You, God, my Rock and Redeemer.
Prayer 153
Master of the Universe, please allow me to come

close to true tzaddikim and Torah scholars. Merit me
to receive their holy faces each time, such that I acquire
a great radiance in my face from the light of their holy
countenance, just as the moon reflects the light of the
sun. Merit me to attach myself to the tzaddikim so much
that I actually receive the light of their countenance in
my face. May the countenance of the tzaddik or Torah
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scholar then be seen in my face. By this, merit me to a

face of the tzaddik or Torah scholar; that they should be
seen in my face. By this, merit me to a face of brightness
and save me from all forms of darkness in the face which
stems especially from the craving for money. When a
person has a face of darkness (of worry and sadness) he
cannot receive the holy countenance of the tzaddik in
his own face. Furthermore, save me from arrogance, for
someone who is arrogant has no face of holiness. Then
he certainly cannot receive the light of the face of the
tzaddik in his own face.
Merit me, each time, to talk to the true tzaddik and to
hear Torah innovations from him, face to face. Then let
me merge with him and become truly attached to him,
becoming totally united with his holy words. Merit me
to nullify myself to his holy words completely so that
there is no separation between me and his holy words.
May it be as if his holy words come from me. This is an
aspect of “God spoke face to face with them”, at Mount
Sinai. As a a result, merit me to have all the tzaddik’s holy
words carved within my heart such that they shine and
radiate into my soul, spirit and neshama, for ever and
ever, for all eternity. Amen. So may it me.
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Prayer 154
“The Lord, the Lord, God, merciful and gracious, long-

suffering and abundant in goodness and truth”. In Your
bountiful mercy let me merit and all of Israel to have
real desires, yearnings and longings to come to the Land
of Israel, until I merit, in Your bountiful mercy and
immense loving-kindness to manage to turn these desires
into deeds, to travel and reach the Land of Israel, the
holy Land, because of my very great distance from You
and because of the immenseness of my materiality, the
crookedness in my heart and the confusion of my mind.
Because of all this I need to be in the Land in which
the primary pillar of the source of holy belief exists.
There, is found the root of the generality of the holiness
of Israel. It is the Land which the Lord chose for His
Chosen People, Israel. It is the Land which God always
cares for, the Land of true life, eternal life; a desirable,
good and spacious land which You gave to our fathers
as an inheritance in favour, a land in which is found the
“city of our God, the Mount of His Sanctuary. Fair in
situation, the joy of all the land”.
Please Lord, merciful One, full of compassion;
charitable One, full of loving-kindness. Good One who
is full of good, Tzaddik, full of righteousness. Savior,
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full of deliverance. Do good with me, as is Your desire.

Let me merit, out of compassion and loving-kindness
and as a gift, to come very quickly to the Land of Israel,
the holy Land, the Land which our forefathers inherited,
the land in which all the true tzaddikim really desired
and longed to be. Most of them came there and rectified
whatever they did and merited to whatever they merited
, accomplishing everything through the holiness of the
Land of Israel which is the focal point of holiness of
the whole world. Abraham, the Patriarch, worked and
strived very many years to get there. He beheld, saw,
understood, searched, sealed, cut out, measured and
counted until God revealed to him the holy Land, which
is the foundation of the focal point of holiness, the
foundation of belief; He promised him to give it as an
inheritance to his offspring and their descendants in
each of the generations. Therefore have mercy upon
us for Your Name’s sake. Even though I am completely
and utterly despicable and worthless, in the merit and
strength of Abraham and all the tzaddikim who merited
to come to Israel, let me also merit quickly to skip and
jump over all the obstacles, delays and disputes that
prevent me from traveling to the Land of Israel. Let
me break very quickly all the obstacles and come very
speedily to the holy Land of Israel.
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Please, my Father, Merciful Father, have mercy upon

me, a wretched, poor person as myself who pleads
before You, who asks for charity, for an undeserved
present. I have also not merited to tell the truth because
of the greatness of the confusion and stupefaction of
my mind, as is known to You, compassionate Lord.
Even so, I await Your salvation, Your goodness, Your
great loving-kindness, Your awesome and wonderful
righteousness. Take pity and have mercy upon me. Bring
me quickly and safely to the Land of Israel. Strengthen
and embolden my mind and heart so that I merit to
overcome all the obstacles, delays and confusions and all
the obstacles of the mind. Grant me plenty of money
for the expenses and everything needed on the trip. May
I travel peacefully and arrive to the Land of Israel, safely
in terms of my body, my Torah and my money. May I
arrive safely without any harm. Save me from all sorts
of bad thoughts and all sorts of blemishes. Let me not
be hurt, Heaven forbid, by anything in the world during
this long journey, whether in body, soul or monetarily,
whether materially or spiritually.
May I leave in peace and arrive in peace. May I merit to
achieve all my needs there, in the Land of Israel, and to
really come closer to You by way of the holiness of the
Land of Israel; may I rise spiritually from level to level in
great holiness and purity, as is Your good desire.
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May I merit, by the holiness of the Land of Israel,

to break the attribute of anger completely. May I have
patience in all its aspects, so that I always overcome my
anger. Let me not be angry or strict about anything in the
world. Rather, let me serve You perfectly and faithfully,
with great simplicity and may I learn Torah and pray with
tremendously great devotion and put all my strength and
the thoughts of my heart and my mind into each and
every word of the very, very holy and awesome prayers.
May I know and believe with perfect faith that the whole
world is full of Your glory.
You hear and listen to every word of prayer. Let me
know before whom I stand, before the King of Kings,
the Holy One. Through this may I draw upon myself
great fear and awe of You. Help me to concentrate very
well on every word without letting my mind wander from
any word of prayer and its meaning. Save me from any
extraneous thoughts during the time of prayer. Rather,
merit me to attach my mind to the words of prayer very
firmly indeed. As a result allow me to become stronger
and stronger in Torah and prayer. Merit me to perform
good deeds with great zeal and tremendous joy. I do not
want to take any notice of any distraction or confusion,
obstacle or delay. Help me not to be confused by them
at all. Save me from any laziness, sadness or weakness
of mind. On the contrary, in Your boundless mercy,
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help me through holy faith to break and completely

nullify all kinds of laziness, heaviness and obstacles
from the mind or from physical things. Let me nullify
sadness, depression, improper thoughts, confusions and
crookedness of the heart. Then merit me to the trait of
real patience so that I can overcome and ignore all the
obstacles and confusions. Let me not pay any attention
to them at all. Bestow upon me the power to grow and
flourish in Your service which stems from faith. Guard
me so that nothing damages me at all. Anything that I
do in the service of God, in Torah and mitzvoth, may I
always be successful. For Your Name’s sake do it.
Prayer 156
You, who are full of mercy, holy and awesome One,

who purifies the impure, speedily purify my heart,
pardon me with regard to the past; help me and save
me in the future so that I merit to drive out and remove
from my heart all the evil thoughts and all the confused
ideas and all sorts of blemished thoughts that are in the
heart. Let me extricate, drive out and remove them from
my heart and may I strengthen myself and embolden
myself at all times, so that I direct my heart towards
You. Merciful One, Full of Compassion, let me merit
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to fervour, to holy enthusiasm of the heart. Act for the

sake of our ancestors and sages and true tzaddikim,
who bring righteousness to the public as stars that shine
forever more. Grant me merit, in their strength, to also
be amongst those who bring righteousness to the many.
Let me judge each person on the side of merit and to
bring many people closer to Your worship, to fear of
You and to Your Torah. May I shine and radiate and
inform all of Your People, Israel of Your truth; let my
sincere words enter their hearts such that their hearts
be warmed with great and holy enthusiasm and fervour
to really return to You. By this, may increasingly great
warmth and enthusiasm be drawn upon me every time.
Let me merit to always receive and draw into my heart,
holy enthusiasm and fervour from our rabbis, our
teachers, the tazddikim who cleave to You, O Lord,
our God. They receive fire from above, “burning coals
of fire”, in order to enflame and warm the hearts of
Israel with holy enthusiasm and fervour thought their
very words being like burning coals from the fire. Take
pity on Your people Israel, so that their holy fire of
enthusiasm never be extinguished. Fulfill in us the verse
which says: “Let the fire on the altar be kept burning; let
it not go out”. May we all merit to receive their holy fire
all the time, so as to warm and enthuse the heart of Your
People, Israel, with holy fervour towards You, to serve
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You truly in the right degree and measure, as is Your

good desire. However much You give merit to instill holy
enthusiasm and fervour in the hearts of others, so let me
merit to have added and drawn upon me, many more
times over, holy enthusiasm of the heart and fervour
from Above, in the merit of our ancestors, teachers and
tzaddikim who perform Your will, – “Your servants,
a flaming fire”. By this, may I extricate, drive out and
remove from my heart all the spirit of foolishness and
all the evil thoughts and ideas, such, that I soon merit to
real purity of the heart. And through this, may I truly
speak new, holy, pure words before You every time, to
make You want to speedily bring me closer to You, so
that I will always really cleave to You. May the words of
my mouth and the meditation of my heart find favour
before You, O Lord, my Rock and Redeemer.
Prayer 157
May it be Your will, O Lord, my God and God of my

fathers, that You grant me the merit to cleave to Your
holy Torah. Open my heart and my mind until I merit
to hear and understand well, in my heart, all the words
of Your holy, pure and perfect Torah which ‘returns the
soul and makes wise the fool; that gladdens the heart
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and enlightens the eyes, exists forever and is harmonious

and righteous’. May I merit to feel very clearly the
wonderful pleasure of the delight and sweetness of
the new, holy and very awesome interpretations of the
Torah which the true tzaddikim revealed and which give
life to all the worlds. Let me enjoy and take delight in
the Lord, in the words of Your holy Torah, such that I
loathe and despise the life of This World, with its desires
and vanities! May all the life of This World be nullified
completely in my eyes, by the greatness of the pleasure,
delight and enjoyment that I merit to get from the words
of Your holy, awesome Torah, whose every word lives
and exists, is faithful and delightful forever. “They are
more desirable than gold, than much fine gold; sweeter
than honey and the honeycomb”.
For really, from a distance I see in my mind the
pleasantness of the depth of Your Torah, whose
every single word ascends to Ein Sof (the Infinite) and
descends without end; whose each word ties, joins and
includes all the worlds together; whose every word
gives wonderful advice to all those whether on a high
level or a low level, how to merit to know You and
to really cleave to You. “How great are Your deeds O
Lord, how infinitely profound Your thoughts”. If we
were to merit to listen and incline our ears and hearts
very well to one word of Your holy Torah which You
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revealed to us by Your servant Moses and by all the true

tzaddikim in every generation until today, we would
become nullified completely! However, because of our
many iniquities we do not merit to transfer the mind into
the heart and through this to nullify the cravings of the
heart. For our hearts are full of extraneous thoughts,
cravings, confusions, reflections and crookedness, such
that our hearts are very far away from the words of Your
holy Torah. Therefore we do not feel the delight and
sweetness of its pure words. Please, One and only Lord,
who teaches Torah to His Nation, Israel, have mercy
upon us for Your Name’s sake. Open our hearts by our
learning Your Torah. Let our hearts really cleave to the
words of Your holy Torah, until we merit to enjoy and
take great delight in the words of Your holy Torah, such
that, through this, we despise all the life of This World,
its desires and vanities. Grant us really good, long lives
and let us cleave to You and to Your holy Torah and
commandments forever. Let us not stray from Your
desire, to the right or to the left. Please, O Lord, our
God, cause the words of Your Torah to be a delight in
our mouths so that we, and our descendants and the
descendants of Your Nation, the House of Israel, may
all know Your Name and learn Your Torah for its own
sake, until we merit “to behold the beauty of the Lord
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and to visit His Temple”, from now and forever. Amen,

Selah.
Prayer 159
Master of the World, Who bestows the Torah, help

me and save me; merit me to study Torah by day and by
night. Sanctify us in Your commandments and give us a
portion in Your Torah. Purify my thoughts and heart so
that I can serve You without ulterior motives and study
Torah for Your sake alone. All for God alone. Help me
at all times to sanctify and purify myself properly so that
all my studying will be for the sake of the Shechinah
which is an intermediary between the world and the
Holy One. May the Holy Shechinah accept all my Torah
study with great love. Through this, draw upon us all
sorts of bounty created by our studying, both spiritual
and material bounty. Let the bounty from our studying
Torah rise and give vitality to all the worlds above, all the
angels, the Seraphim, Ophanim and holy Chayot. And
may material bounty descend to all the Jewish People
from our studies. Bestow upon us children, long life and
a good livelihood in great plenty and holiness.
So also, have mercy upon us and help us so that all
the vapours and air that we breathe in from the Torah
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of simple, lowly Jews who do not merit to raise their

Torah to the Shechinah, be for the good. Merit us to
turn these vapours, that are scattered through the air at
night into the dew of Torah, heavenly lights and an elixir
of life. As a result, merit us to arouse ourselves everyday
with renewed desire and longing to engage ourselves in
studying the Torah. May Your holy Torah be completely
new in our eyes each day. Merit us to rise from one level
to another in Your sublime holiness until I manage to
create genuine Torah innovations from the vapours of
other People, as You desire.
Guard and save us in Your immense compassion, so
that these fallen vapours will not harm us, causing us
to chase after business affairs with great efforts. Please,
save us from the craving for money and all the burdens
of this world and its vanities.
I cast all my hopes upon You and trust that You will
bestow upon me a good livelihood so that I can put all
my yearning into studying Torah and serving You, day
and night. Then, may I feel renewed spiritual arousal,
every day and every hour, with great desire to cleave to
You, Your Torah and Your Service, with all my heart,
from now on and forever. Amen, Selah.
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Prayer 160
God, our God and God of our Fathers, may it find

favour before You that I merit to always receive through
the breath of my breathing, holy and pure vapours
which stem from holy words and through this give me
a holy pulse. In Your bountiful compassion, help me so
that my pulse will always beat for the good and remind
me through the pulse of the service of God blessed be
He, as it is written “Listen! My beloved, knocks – let
me in, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my flawless one.
For my head is drenched with dew, my locks with the
nighttime shower”. Guard me and save me from the
spirit of folly, from the evil spirit. Don’t let me breathe
any bad air or spirit which stems from the Other Side,
caused from blemished words and protect me and guard
me and save me from any pulse of the Other Side and
may the pulse not have any power to remind me of the
physical cravings and vanities of the This World, God
Forbid. Through this protection, guard me and save
me from any sin or iniquity from now on and forever.
Please, Merciful One, in Your bountiful compassion do
whatever is necessary in your great mercy and immense
loving kindness in such a way that I merit to return to
You quickly. Lord of wonders, The One who gives life
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to the living, Who remembers the forgotten, make my

pulse beat for the good and remind me at all times to
return to you, such that I merit to true and complete
repentance very quickly and easily and may I never
return to folly, on the contrary, rather let me serve You
always with all my heart and to cleave to you in truth,
me, together with my children and their children and all
my descendants and all the seeds of Your people, the
House of Israel from now on and forever. Amen, Selah.
Prayer 164
Master of the Universe, merit me to come close to

genuine tzaddikim, and to stand before them to serve
them and let me hear and accept with love anything they
say, whether words of Torah or, seemingly mundane
conversations. Whatever they say to me or command
me to do, help me to behave with total faith that it is
all for the good, to cure my soul. May I nullify my mind
to their knowledge without a moment of doubt about
them. Help me to always know and believe that they are
the true curers of our souls.
Master of the Universe. I certainly believe with total
belief that the Torah is the general cure for all our
spiritual illnesses but I know in my soul, that I have sinned
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so much therefore it is difficult for me to receive my

complete cure through the Torah alone. So have mercy
on me and merit me to come close to true tzaddikim
who are the real curers of our souls for they know how
to clothe the light of the holy Torah in such a way that
it will not become an elixir of death, Heaven forbid. On
the contrary, my I receive from it an elixir of life to cure
all my spiritual illnesses. For this reason the tzaddikim
sometimes clothe the inner essence of the Torah in
other simple words. And occasionally our illness is so
great that we cannot tolerate even this, so they are forced
to clothe the light of the holy Torah in mundane stories
etc. All this acts to cure our souls. Therefore, please
enable us to accept with great love anything that they say
with true yearning and complete faith.
Eventually may all our Torah study turn into an elixir
of life for us. Help us to study the holy Torah by day and
by night. Fulfill in us the verse which says: “They are
life to those who speak them out and a cure to all one’s
flesh”.
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Prayer 165
Blessed is the man whom You chastise O Lord, and

teach him from Your Torah”. Master of the World, Full
of Compassion, who is good and does good for all, help
me and save me so that I accept everything with love.
Even when, in Your mercy, You sometimes send me
some suffering which appears to be evil, Heaven forbid,
let me merit to accept everything with really great love.
Open my heart with great holiness so that I merit to really
know and understand that someone like myself, as I am
now, after all that I have done against You; everything
that is from You is in infinitely great and immeasurable
compassion and loving-kindness. It is impossible to
clarify or tell of the numerous and immense mercies,
loving-kindnesses and favours that You performed for
me and still perform for me and which You will do for
me in the future. What can I do? My transgressions
have stupefied my heart and made my mind and heart
so crooked that I am not worthy to feel Your love in
my heart. They even want to lead my heart astray all the
time, to cast doubts upon Your good attributes, Heaven
forbid. Therefore I have come before You to plead that
You be full of compassion towards me. Preserve me
and save me from all sorts of crookedness of the heart.
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Strengthen my heart and mind in Your holy belief so as

to know and believe always that You are righteous, O
Lord, and Your judgments are just. In comparison to
my evil and blemished deeds, You deal with me in great,
immeasurable loving-kindness and mercy. In Your great
mercy and loving-kindness take pity and have mercy
upon me; protect me and save me from all sorts of evils
and troubles and from all the suffering in the world, for
You are gracious and forgive abundantly. I know that,
according to my immense and numerous transgressions,
all the suffering in the world would not be enough,
Heaven forbid, to rectify even one sin, even the slightest
of my transgressions. However, Your mercy will go
before me, for You can pardon and forgive me without
any suffering at all, as it says: “You have the power to
forgive so that You may be feared….for with the Lord
there is mercy and the power of plentiful redemption.
He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities”.
Therefore Master of Compassion, I have stretched out
my hands in prayer to You; have mercy upon me and
preserve my soul from all sorts of evils and troubles and
all sorts of suffering in the world. Don’t act towards us
according to our sins; don’t repay us according to our
iniquities. Please, Lord, You who are good and do good,
make us a wonder to the living – help us and save us
so that we merit to accept with truly great love all the
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suffering that You decide we need, according to Your

truly merciful and kind ways. Don’t send me any suffering
other than when, in Your most sublime holiness, You
help me to really not question Your ways at all. Let me
give my soul as a guilt offering. Have mercy upon me, for
Your sake. Don’t let me kick against suffering but, rather,
give me strength and understanding to really accept it
with love when, in Your true mercy, You want to chastise
me with love, as a father chastises his son and in Your
bountiful mercy, ease my suffering as much as is possible,
for my strength is frail and my understanding poor and
I don’t have strength of body or of mind to accept any
suffering at all. “Grace me with your attribute of loving-
kindness; with your attribute of merciful mercies, erase
my sins. Enlighten me with your attribute of kindness
and I will guard the testimonies of your mouth. Don’t
rebuke me in Your anger nor chastise me in Your fury”.
You who are full of mercy, make my will as You desire
so that I merit to nullify my will completely in the face of
Your will. Let me have no personal will at all, rather, let
my will be that everything should be as You truly desire,
from now on, forever. Amen, Selah.
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Prayer 166 – 167
Master of the Universe, merit me to be with the true

tzaddik regularly, especially when all his followers collect
around him to hear from him words of the living God.
Let me receive a radiance of his holy face. May I always
be counted among his followers and become part of
them. Enable us to regularly come to him several times
a year especially those times specially designated for
his followers to gather around him. At any time when
the tzaddik wants to sweeten the harsh decrees and to
nullify them from upon the Jewish People, arouse then
the desire and yearning of all his followers to come and
collect around the tzaddik even at a time not previously
designated for it. By this, the tzaddik has dominion and
greater force and has the most power to nullify the harsh
decrees and sweeten them.
Merit us to regularly come to the tzaddik on Shabbat
several times every year. May we eat with him at his
Shabbat meal. For You have told us that the days of
Shabbat we spend with a tzaddik is considered like a
fast-day. So help us to come close on Shabbat to the
true tzaddik who is very eminent indeed and may this
be considered even more beneficial in serving God than
many days of fasting.
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Prayer 168
Help us never to stumble by feeling proud or arrogant,

Heaven forbid. Let us not have any desire or longing for
status or imaginary honour. On the contrary, merit us to
always run away from honour so that we will not come
to any distress, Heaven forbid, as it says. “Before a fall,
pride”. Any honour that I receive, may it be with great
holiness, only for the sake of Heaven. Fulfill in us the
verse: “Before honour, humility”. Amen, so may it be
Your Will.
Prayer 169
Help me and save me for Your Name’s Sake. Teach and

instruct me how to merit to examine and judge myself,
at this time of distress. I do not know how to find advice
for my soul to save myself from sinning at least from now
on. Until when will I (add your name) son/daughter of (add
mother’s name) shout out from my captivity. From where
can I take advice about how to examine my deeds and
judge myself regarding all my actions and traits? I know
that most of my deeds are improper and very blemished.
My thoughts are especially bad and confused. Heaven
help me. It seems to me that I have not got myself under
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control. How can I merit to holy judgment, to examine

carefully my thoughts and deeds in order to judge myself,
by myself ? Help me to find good advice at all times in
such a way that I can carry it out and refrain from my
bad deeds and blemished thoughts. You, Who are full
of compassion, help me and save me with Your true
salvation.
From where can I start? I am far away from joy, because
I have blemished the brit considerably. So too the
opposite. It is hard and a burden for me to repent for
having blemished the brit and to rectify it, because I am
very distant from happiness. The essence of guarding the
brit is by means of happiness, the sages have taught us.
So help me to judge myself every day about all my deeds
so that I can return to You in truly complete repentance.
Merit me to holy judgments so that I will judge myself as
is fitting, as You desire and as the true tzaddikim desire,
until I can remove and nullify all the judgments and harsh
decrees from upon me. Let them not have any strength
to accuse me and arouse harsh judgment against me at
all. I know Master of the Universe, that I have not the
strength to remove the harsh judgments by myself, so
please arouse the power of the holy judgment of the
true tzaddikim who engaged in judging themselves
all their lives in order to remove the harsh judgments,
suffering an distress from all the Jewish People. In their
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merit and their power, drive away, break, sweeten and

nullify all the harsh judgments and decrees from upon
me and all my family and all the Jewish People. Nullify
all the troubles, generally and specifically, materially and
spiritually in body, soul and money. Please do not give
any strength to the ‘messengers’, who are instruments
of the Heavenly Court, to carry out the harsh decrees
against us.
We have no-one to rely upon other than You, Your
compassion and Your great and holy power. Please do
not look at our bad deeds. We have already suffered a
lot because of them. Rather, look carefully at the little
point of good that remains in us, even in the worst
sinners among the Jewish People. Have mercy on the
remains of Your People. Save me from all evil, from all
harsh decrees in the world. Then, by the removal and
nullification of all the harsh decrees, merit us to such
great joy that it spreads down to our legs and we start
dancing. May we rejoice in Your Salvation. Have mercy
on us; strengthen us on the Festivals to rejoice with all
our might. Give us the power to always be happy until
we achieve a real guarding of the brit through holy joy
as is fitting for a Jew who is Your Chosen People. In You
bountiful compassion, guard our holy brit from all kinds
of blemishes in the world, for You work wonders. Merit
us very speedily to a complete rectification of the brit, as
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is Your desire. Help us and redeem us for Your Name’s

sake. Bring joy to the soul of Your servant for my soul
reaches out to You.
Prayer 170
God, my God and God of my Fathers please help me to

I cease sinning from now on. In Your bountiful mercy,
please wipe out whatever I sinned against You, but not
by our suffering or by serious illnesses. Master of the
Universe, You know that we are so lowly and so weak
that we do not have the strength to bare any suffering at
all. Our minds are limited and very confused, especially
so when we experience suffering, Heaven save us. It is
even hard for us to shout and cry out to You to plead
for mercy. We are inert, sleepy, tired and exhausted from
the burden of the suffering. We cannot move ourselves
at all.
You know the innumerable troubles and immense
suffering that the true tzaddikim experience. Apart from
their own great and bitter suffering they feel the distress
of the Jewish People, generally and individually. But
they are on such a great spiritual level that they can bear
all the suffering. In addition; the greater their distress
is; because of the suffering and troubles of the Jewish
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People, so to their material body becomes subdued

more and more. Their mind and inner essence shines
more and more as their soul grows. As a result, it is
almost as if they carry and lift up all of the Jewish souls,
especially those close to them. They support, raise and
return many Jewish souls to their source. But what can
we answer after them?
The truth is that we know and believe with complete
faith that all the suffering You occasionally send us, is
certainly for our benefit, in order to subdue the body by
crushing the materiality, so that the inner essence of the
soul will grow. However, our strength is minimal, so we
cannot take any suffering at all. Therefore, please have
mercy on us in the merit of our Fathers and all the true
tazddikim who suffered so much for our sake. Save us
from now on, from all kinds of distress and suffering.
Redeem us, for Your Name’s sake. Amen, So may it be.
Prayer 171
Master of the Universe, merit us to come close to

true tzaddikim and to hear Torah innovations from
their mouths. Enable us to receive from them a new
understanding in the service of God which was unknown
to us until then. By this, help us to really awaken
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ourselves in the service of God. That is to say, from

now on, may we follow the path of truth as You desire.
Let us truly serve You using this new understanding that
You reveal to us each time through the true tzaddikim
in each generation. Protect and save us so that, Heaven
forbid, we should not be an aspect of “sinners stumble
in them” (words of Torah). Not only do they not serve You
with this new understanding that was revealed to them,
they even use it to be arrogant towards other people. So,
merit us to receive all these holy understandings and to
use them only for the sake of the service of God.
Prayer 172
Master of the Universe, You informed us that all the

deficiencies a person has, whether in children, health or
financially, are all caused by the person himself, for the
light of God shines upon a person constantly. However,
through a person’s bad deeds he creates a shadow for
himself which blocks the light and bounty of the Holy
One from him. Therefore please have mercy on us and
merit us to repent fully before You and improve all our
deeds from now on. Help us to subdue and nullify all
the materiality and coarseness of our bodies to such
a degree that no worldly desire will be left in us. As a
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result, merit us to receive the light of God and may The

honour of God be raised and aggrandized by us. Master
of the World, merit us to nullify ourselves completely
until we become nothing and merge with the aspect of
truth. Through this, may we really receive fully the holy
light of wisdom and understanding. Then let the light
of God’s honour shine upon us our Father. Bless us
all as one in the Light of Your Countenance. Help us
also, that the true tzaddikim will show us a friendly face,
and through this merit us a bounty of good, a blessing
and success, life, grace, loving kindness and mercy, for
ourselves and all of the Israel the Jewish People. Amen,
so may it be.
Prayer 173
Master of the Universe, You revealed to us that through

a person’s handwriting a tzaddik can know the inner
essence of the soul of the writer, his faith and the source
of his faith which is the inner essence of his faith. The
writer puts his soul into the writing, Furthermore, the
inner essence of one’s soul and speech is of a greater
status than that of the writing because the latter is only
an expression of the soul, whereas speech is the very
essence of the soul itself.
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So, have mercy upon us and merit us to minimize

as much as possible our speaking and writing about
mundane matters in order not to diminish the holiness
of our souls and their inner essence. Rather, merit us to
maximize our speaking and writing of words of Torah
and words of faith for this will bring a greater radiance
of holiness and faith into our souls and into the inner
essence of our souls.
Help us so that even when sometimes it is necessary to
talk and write about mundane matters, especially when
we have to do so in the languages of the nations, that we
can force ourselves to do it as much as we can without
putting all our minds into it. Rather, let our souls,
together with our inner souls, cleave to Your holy Torah
all the time with holy faith.
Merit us to engage ourselves in studying Your holy
Torah a lot, every single day while attaching ourselves
to its inner holiness, which is the hidden light of Your
Godliness clothed within the letters of the holy Torah.
May we merit to talk a lot with true tzaddikim and hear
many Torah innovations directly from their mouths of
from their writings. Through this, let us merit to receive
a great radiance from the light of their holy souls and
their holy faith such that it will revive our souls. Amen.
So may it be.
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Prayer 175
Master of the World, merit us always to be happy and to

remind ourselves at all times of Your wonderful acts of
loving-kindness which You perform for us all the time;
And above all, that You chose us from all the nations
and raised us above all their languages; You sanctified us
through Your commandments and brought us close to
Your service. Your great and holy Name You proclaimed
upon us. So, let us be very happy with this to such a
degree that we will truly regret having rebelled against
You through our innumerable sins. You have bestowed
loving-kindness upon us yet we have paid You back with
evil. Please help us to regret this and long so much to
come close to You that we are aroused to great crying
which stems from tremendous joy and yearning to cleave
to You. You informed us that the main perfection of
crying is when it comes from great joy at knowing Your
Name. Then, through this crying, enable us to sweeten
all the harsh judgments and rid ourselves of sadness. Let
us sweeten the harsh judgments at their source in the
World Above, in Binah, which is the root of all crying
and joy. Arouse great compassion upon us in the World
Above, as it says, ‘Behold a child was crying and she had
mercy upon him.’ And may it be fulfilled in us the verse
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‘they come crying and I will lead them back in mercy’.

Amen. So may it be Your desire.
Prayer 176
“A broken depressed heart, do not reject oh God”

Master of the Universe, merit us to really attach ourselves
to true tzaddikim and to love them with all our soul.
Then, through this may our hearts become merged with
the heart of the true tzaddikim. Let our hearts become
completely united with theirs until, through this all the
spirit of folly that has clung to us in our heart, gets
driven out. Let this spirit of folly leave our hearts with
great haste so that we can achieve a really broken heart.
Fulfill in us the verse which says: “God is close to those
with a broken heart and saves those with a lowly spirit”.
So may it be Your desire.
Prayer 177
Master of the Universe, merit us to come close to

true tzakkikim and Torah scholars and may we fill their
throats with wine, for You taught us about the great
power of the true tzaddikim and the great holiness of
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their eating and drinking. Sometimes just by drinking

a little quantity of wine they merit to receive wisdom
and such holy brains that, by this alone, they can achieve
atonement and forgiveness for the sons of the Jewish
People, as it says of Moshe: And God said, “I have
forgiven, as you have asked”. Merit us to guard the
brit with absolute holiness such that we achieve holy
brains which are perfect. Let us, take upon ourselves
the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven completely so that
we nullify all our desires, to Your will. May we have no
desire, other than to fulfill Your will until we become
really satisfied with whatever You desire. Let us know
and believe perfectly that whatever the Merciful One
does is for the good, for God is good to all and has
mercy over all His created beings. Merit us to raise and
make greater the glory of Your Kingship through our
deeds, at all times. And speedily uproot and break the
kingdom of the wicked so that You throw them down
and subdue them very soon, in our lifetime. Reign over
us God, You alone. “May God reign forever, Your God,
Zion, from generation to generation. Praise God”.
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Prayer 178
“I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth. I will

praise Him among the multitude. For He shall stand at
the right hand of the poor one to save him from those
who condemn his soul”. Master of the World, You who
greatly pardon, He who wants repentance, teach me how
to praise You now, how to gladden my soul now, in such
a way that I merit by happiness to confess before You
and detail before You all my sins that I have committed
from when I was born until this day. Thereby may I
merit to truly return to You.
Master of the World, merciful Father, You know the
joy wedged in my heart on one side and sadness on
the other side. The greatness of the happiness and joy
that I should feel as a result of my portion in life is
immeasurable, beyond evaluation and beyond counting,
for in Your great mercy, You granted me the merit to be
born from the seed of Israel, the Chosen Nation from all
the nations, and the Nation elevated above all languages.
You cherish us by all sorts of terms of endearment;
You love Your people, Israel very greatly, love for
ever and ever for all eternities. From Your love and
compassion for Your People, Israel, You multiplied for
us the learning of the Torah and the commandments,
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such that there is no end to the happiness that we have,

for we should be happy and rejoice very greatly in every
commandment for they give renewed strength to the
soul and gladden the heart, as is written: “The statutes of
the Lord are upright, gladdening the heart”. However,
because of the multitude of my iniquities and immense
willful transgressions, sadness, worries and melancholy
bear down upon me at all times, “For I will declare
my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin”. You know that
this sadness and melancholy does great harm to Your
service, for, because of the sadness, my heart has
become stupefied and my mind confused, until I cannot
awaken myself to truly return to You. Even to confess
before You and detail my sins and explain myself before
You is very difficult and a burden, because my heart has
become stupefied by the sadness and melancholy.
Therefore, I have come before You who are full of
mercy, Master of happiness and joy, to ask that You have
mercy upon me and teach me how to gladden my soul
at all times, for, in Your great mercy, You have already
taught me by the holy tzaddikim that even if a person is
as he is, even if he did what he did, even so, even though
he is there in the situation that he is in, he must force
himself, with all his powers, to distance himself from
sadness and to gladden his soul at all times, knowing
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that he has merited, nonetheless to be from the seed of

Israel.
He must also search and desire to find in himself good
points from the many good deeds that he merited to
perform over the years. Every single Jew has many good
deeds to his credit, for even the sinners of Israel are full
of good deeds, just like a pomegranate is full of seeds.
In this, it is fitting that every Jew be happy and rejoice
a great deal, even the least of the least and the worst of
the worst.
Master of the World, Master of Wonders, my Father,
merciful Father, who might and joy is in Your place.
Come to my help and save me, so that I merit to collect
and gather together all the fragments of happiness from
all the commandments and good points that I have
merited to, from when I was born until this day. May
all these fragments of happiness gather together in me,
such that with great force they overcome the sadness
and melancholy of my numerous iniquities, until I merit
through this to be happy with all my might always. May
I merit to always overcome and strengthen myself with
happiness and joy by all sorts of ways of advice, which
You taught me by Your holy tzaddikim.
Help me to strengthen myself with great happiness,
such that I merit to dance from happiness. Let me merit
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always to the happiness of a commandment, whether

it is being happy in the fulfilling of a commandment,
whether at a wedding, gladdening the bridegroom
and bride, or whether at other happy occasions when
fulfilling commandments. Always save me and help me
to have at all times great joy and happiness stemming
from the happiness of a commandment, so much so
that I dance a great deal because of the happiness. May
I merit to be happy and dance so much that I merit to
traverse the entire structure of happiness and dancing
which is comprised of 248 limbs and 365 sinews, for
happiness is the root of the focal point of all the 613
commandments in the Torah, as it is written: “The
statutes of the Lord are upright; they gladden the heart”.
In Your great mercy, let the happiness of all the truly
good points that are in me from over the years be
enflamed within me, in Your great loving-kindness;
let the happiness shine with a great and wonderful
light, such that, through this, I nullify all the darkness,
obstacles, worries and sadness caused by the multiplicity
of immense sins, iniquities and willful transgressions that
I committed before You over the years. If they are very,
very great, even so, in Your merciful eyes, virtues are
considered greater and in Your great strength You can
add a great light to the happiness of the commandments
and good points that are in me, until they will overcome
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the darkness and sadness of my many iniquities and until

the bad becomes nullified in relation to the good and
the sadness of iniquities becomes nullified against the
happiness of the commandments. May I merit always to
be happy and dance a great deal through the happiness
of a commandment, until I merit to really perfect
happiness and to completely perfect all the structure of
happiness and dancing. Through this, may I merit, in
Your bountiful mercy, to judge myself truly and confess
before You at all times by speaking out the specific
details of my sins. May no obstacles or delay prevent me
from this. May forgetfulness not overcome me, so as to
cause me to forget to specify one of my sins before You.
Let nothing confuse me, rather, may I just merit to truly
confess before You and detail, specifically each sin. You,
who are full of compassion, be ready to help me so that
I merit, by confessing to build and perfect the power of
speech in the way of ultimate perfection.
Through this, may the Supernal Voice join and be
in complete unity with the power of speech in a way
that, through this, all my sins, iniquities and wilful
transgressions be rectified. May I perfect all the Names
that are within Your great Name, which I spoiled.
Master of the World, Master of the World, who will
give me now a mouth to speak and explain myself
before You? How can I now find the strength to pour
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out my heart as water before the Countenance of the

Lord? Master of the World, You, who are full of mercy
– “My King and my God, I will pray to You” – teach
me how to triumph over You so that You bring me to
truly repent completely before You. My Father, Rock,
Redeemer, Deliverer, who observes in order to better my
end; help me in Your tremendous mercy, in Your great
saving, in Your wonderful ways of advice, such, that I
merit to always be happy. “Gladden the soul of Your
servant, for to You Lord, I lift up my soul”. Strengthen
me and embolden me each time to overcome sadness
and make happiness dominant. Strengthen me with all
sorts of happiness and gladden my soul through all the
paths of happiness that the holy sages taught us, in such
a way that I merit always to be happy and that I not let
sadness approach me in any way whatsoever; let sadness
and melancholy have no strength to stupefy my heart,
Heaven forbid. Let nothing confuse my mind, rather,
may I merit at all times to overcome everything by great
happiness and tremendous joy until I merit to speak out
my confession before You with happiness and to pour
out my heart before the Countenance of the Lord and
to elucidate myself before You every day in a broken
and contrite heart, as befits me.
Afterwards, may I immediately return to a feeling of
happiness with great vigour and strength and to increase
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the extra happiness every time with all my might until

I merit to truly repent and to serve You always, “with
joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance
of all things”. For upon Your great, awesome, holy Name,
I relied. You can help me even now to always strengthen
my happiness. I will rejoice and be happy in Your saving.
“I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to
Your Name, most High”. Draw happiness upon us from
the source of happiness, from the happiness of the
future which is ready to come to us very soon through
our righteous Messiah, as it is written: “For you shall go
out with joy and be led forth with peace; the mountains
and the hills shall break forth before you into singing
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands”.
Hasten and hurry our redemption; comfort and
gladden us and all Your Nation, Israel, very speedily
in our days. Fulfill very speedily that which is written,
“For the Lord shall comfort Zion; He will comfort all
her waste places; and He will make her wilderness like
Eden and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and
gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice
of melod”. Amen and Amen.
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Prayer 179
Lord, God of truth, Unique and Eternal One, who

thinks of ways that he who is far away (from holiness) will
not be banished; who is good and does good to all; who
waits for the wicked person and desires his being found
righteous; who ‘reads’ the generations beforehand and
wants repentance – have mercy upon me for Your
Name’s sake, for the sake of our holy forefathers,
return us in perfect repentance before You. Enable me,
from now on, to walk in Your statutes and keep Your
commandments, forever.
Master of the World, full of mercy, who knows the
hidden things; exalted and holy One “who performs
mighty acts, creates new things; the Lord of wars, who
sows acts of kindness and brings forth works of salvation;
who creates healing; awesome in praise, Master of
wonders; He, whom in His goodness, constantly renews
each day, the act of Creation,” and who always does very,
very great and wonderful new miracles every day, which
are hidden and too sublime to be understood by us, for
we do not know the immensity of Your greatness and
Your wonders which You perform all the time. All Your
deeds, wonders and favours that You perform, all the
time and at every hour, all of them, as one, are only
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for the true and ultimate good, which is to bring about

causes so that we merit to return to You truly in complete
repentance. This is the main, true ultimate good of all
good. You alone know how much You create new things
every day in order to bring me and all Israel back to You
in true, perfect repentance; in order to purify and rectify
our souls, spirits and higher souls and in order that the
souls of Your Nation, Israel, become purified from their
defilement. Every day, at all times, every moment, You
perform completely new wonders for this purpose. No
day is similar to another. Every day, at all times, every
hour and every moment, You perform wonders to
alter the functioning of the worlds through very many
wonderful, endless changes. All this is for the good of
the (people of the) world, for their true and eternal good,
in order to give them innumerable signs in different
aspects and ways, by which You call every individual,
wherever he is at this moment, to truly draw him close
to You. This alone is a really good favour; there is no
other favour in the world at all apart from this.
Behold, I acknowledge and give thanks before You,
my Father, my merciful Father, the good King who does
good to all, for all the acts of loving-kindness, favours,
salvations and wonders that You have done for me from
when I was born until today. After all that has happened
to me, after all that I have transgressed, by accident or
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deliberately by force of circumstance or willingly, after

all these, Your mercy upon me has still not ceased. You
still awaken me and strengthen and encourage me to wait
for Your salvation and to arrange these words of mine
before You. Besides this, You grant me merit every day
to some awesome points of goodness which sanctify me
with the holiness of Israel, with the holiness of Your
awesome commandments which You give me merit to
seize every day in the passing and perishable world, a
world which vanishes and passes away like the blink
of an eye. How great is the good You have done for
me. “What shall I render to the Lord for all His favours
towards me?”
Therefore, let Your servant still find in his heart the
desire to plead before You, to prostrate himself in the
face of Your mercy and loving-kindness. So I have come
before You, Master of Compassion, Master of Salvation.
“Great in counsel and mighty in deeds”, that You really
show me the paths of repentance. Be with me always
and truly guide me every hour along the straight path,
in such a way that I merit to truly return to You very
quickly with complete repentance.
In Your bountiful mercy, let me merit to welcome
the holy Day of Atonement in great holiness, great
happiness and immense joy. May I merit to carry out all
the five forms of self-denial on the Day of Atonement
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in absolute perfection, as is proper, and may I pray all

the five prayers of the Day, in immense and awesome
devotion. May I confess my sins through many forms of
spoken confession, and let me regret the past completely
and really leave my bad ways and evil and confusing
thoughts. Let me take upon myself a very firm resolution
never to return to the way of folly. Let me not do again
that which is bad in Your eyes. Help me to return in
complete and true repentance before You, in happiness,
fear and love and let me cry a lot out of happiness.
You, who are full of compassion, let me merit to the
holiness of the frightening, awesome and very sublime
Day of Atonement, for it is a great, holy, awesome,
frightening and mighty day. It is one day in the year that
You chose for Your nation, to forgive their sins and to
atone for the willful transgressions on this awesome
day. Have mercy upon us and let us merit to welcome
properly this great and awesome day, and to return in
truly perfect repentance in such a way that You forgive,
pardon and atone for us all our sins of error, iniquities
and willful transgressions that are more immense, more
numerous and heavier than the sands of the sea. Help
us, in the merit of the essential holiness of this sacred
day and in the merit of the holy fast of this awesome
day, essential holiness of this sacred day and in the merit
of the holy fast of this awesome day, the fast of the Day
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of Atonement, that we merit through this to subjugate

all our desires to Your desire, O God, to subdue, break
and nullify all sorts of desires in the face of Your desire,
such that we are left with no will or craving at all against
Your will. So, may we always be as You desire, never
turning to the right or left of Your desire. Through this
may we merit that, in Your mercy You annul the will of
others in favour of our will. Annul from us all sorts of
strife in the world, whether that which is between people
or that which is within me: “there is no peace in my
bones because of my sin”. In everything that I want to
do concerning holiness I have many, immense obstacles;
obstacles beyond measure. The main obstacles are those
of the brain and the heart. May I merit to nullify them
all by the holy fast of the Day of Atonement which
consists of all the days of the entire year… Have mercy
upon us and let us merit to sincerely return in complete
repentance throughout the entire year, especially on the
holy Day of Atonement. Help us to complete the fast
of the Day of Atonement with tremendous, awesome
holiness and with really great happiness and joy such
that, through this, I can sanctify myself from now on
and know how to behave with regard to fasts during the
whole year. May I really be as Your good desire is that
I be, in order that I never be ashamed or disgraced or
stumble.
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You, who are full of compassion, You know how many

really dead and ruined days are resting in the place where
they are, because of the multiplicity and immensity of
my many willful transgressions that I Have committed
over the years, right up to this day. You know how I
extracted the life from many days with very great
cruelty. It is bad enough that I did not add life from
Above to these days through Torah and prayer, but I
also completely extracted from them, their actual life
through the many transgressions I committed in them.
The rectification of these dead days is by many fasts, as
You revealed to us by Your holy Sages. Have mercy upon
me. Help me and save me in Your immense compassion
and Your awesome and wonderful loving-kindness, so
that I merit, through the power of the holy fast of the
Day of Atonement and the power of all the fasts You
help me to merit throughout my life, to rectify all those
dead days.
Please guide us and teach us the really true path how
to behave regarding fasting. You have revealed to us
through the Sages the immense value of fast days and
fasting which is one of the main means of repentance.
On the other hand, we have been warned in the holy
books not to fast without the permission of the true
sage, especially when one is a Torah scholar and the fast
causes one to cease studying because of weakness. But
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You, Lord our God of truth, before You, all the hidden
things of the heart are revealed. You see all the doubts
I have about this principally in my heart over and above
all the many obstacles of the mind caused by doubts
and confusions about fasting, as I mentioned previously.
Therefore, I have come before You, merciful One, to ask
to know how to behave regarding this on each occasion.
Let me not be confused a lot by these doubts so that I
do not cease even momentarily from my service. Rather
grant me calmness of mind. Show me the way to behave
in the matter of fasting and other areas of serving You.
May I merit to subdue and nullify my blemished desires,
negating them completely to Your will. Let me attach
my heart to You and Your true servants so that I swerve
neither to the right or to the left from what You desire
from now on and forever. Through this, please negate
the wishes of others who oppose my desire to serve
You. Prevent them from having any strength to disturb
me or cause me to stop serving You, even for a moment.
Cancel all the controversy from the world, whether
from those people who wish to oppose me or whether
from the controversy within my own heart. Merit me
to great peace in all its aspects in such a way that I can
truly repent and become as You desire from now on and
for always. Then, in You great compassion, merit me to
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really immense happiness at all times in the service of

Your Name.
In Your mercy, receive all my days with love and desire.
Bring me close to You and may my soul always rejoice to
such a degree that I rectify all the days I have blemished
during my lifetime. Then, may I really come to You and
to serve You both myself and all my descendants for
all generations. He who makes peace in the Heavens,
in mercy, spread peace over us and over all the Jewish
People. Amen.
Prayer 180
Someone who receives redemption money should say the following

prayer:
May it find favour before You that all the harsh decrees
and severities be sweetened from upon (so and so son/
daughter of...) by the Supreme Wonder (Pele Elion) who is
great loving kindness, complete and simple mercy with
no admixture of severity at all. King, Redeemer and
Helper; rescuer and saviour, and sustainer and answerer
and who is merciful at all times of distress and suffering;
have compassion on the sick person (so and so son/daughter
of...). Redeem him/her speedily from all his/her distress,
from all kinds of illnesses and affliction and aches and
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pains. Sweeten and nullify all the harsh decrees from upon
him/her in the merit of the money he/she gave me for
his/her redemption. Have mercy upon us and consider
the money that he/she gave me as if the money had
reached the hands of the holy tzaddikim who know how
to do the redemption and thus to sweeten and cancel all
the harsh decrees by taking into their hands the money
in which the severe decrees have a hold. Therefore I give
over my hands and all the intentions of my heart and
mind to those tzaddikim. May my actions be considered
as their actions, my hands as their hands and my mouth
as their mouth. And let their intentions have our good
in mind so as to redeem us properly through this money
which came into my hands; may they sweeten and nullify
all the harsh decrees from upon (so and so son/daughter
of...) in their heavenly source, in the supernal Binah.
And may the harsh decrees from This World of Asiyah

be sweetened by the three hands (right, left and both clasped
together) in the world of Yetzirah which add up to forty-
two (three hands multiplied by forteen joints on each hand)
which correspond to the initial letters in the prayer of
Rebbe Nachunia ben Hakana, ‘Anna Bekoach’:
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- Anna bekoach, gedulas yemincha tatir tzerora.

We beg You, with the strength of the greatness of Your
right hand untie the bundle (of our sins).
- Kabel rinas amcha, sagvenu tahreinu nora
Accept the song of Your People; strengthen us, purify
us o Awesome One
- Na Gibor dorshei yichudcha k’vavat shamrem
Please Strong One, those who search for Your Oneness,
like the pupil of an eye, guard them.
- Barchem taharem, rachamem tzickatcha tamid gamlem
Bless them, purify them, show them mercy, may Your
righteousness always reward them.
- Chasin, Kadosh b’rov tovcha nahel adatecha
Powerful Holy One with Your abundant goodness,
guide Your congregation.
- Yachid Geyeh, L’amcha p’nai zochrei k’dushatecha
Unique One, Exalted One, to Your People turn, to
those who proclaim Your holiness.
- Shavateinu, kabel u’shma tza’akateineu yodea talumot
Accept our screams and hear our cries knower of
mysteries.
- Baruch shem k’vod malchoto l’olam va-edd
Blessed is the Name of His glorious kingdom for ever
and ever.
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And in the world of Beriyah may all the harsh decrees

be sweetened through the three hands which allude to
the two Names of God. (Ehyeh, 21 YHV 21) that add up to
forty-two. And in Atzilut they will be sweetened by the
Name YHVH, in its simple four-letter form, its expanded
form and its expanded expansion, which add up to forty-
two. Please, have mercy Merciful One on this sick person
(or this person who has another kind of distress, Heaven forbid).
Arouse all the three hands in the Supernal Binah in all
the Three worlds, Atzilut, Beriyah and Yetzirah. These
three hands are called ‘the great hand, ‘the strong hand’
and ‘the high hand’ and through this sweeten and nullify
all the harsh decrees in This World of Asiyah from upon
this sick person and from all the Jewish People and
redeem this person quickly from all the troubles and all
the harsh judgments that were decreed upon him even
if it is after the decree has been sealed and send him a
full cure speedily from Heaven, a spiritual cure and a
physical cure, together with all sick ones of the Jewish
People; and show me and teach me at all times when
someone brings me money for a redemption, that I merit
to know exactly how much money this person needs to
give for his redemption, according to the harsh decrees
that have a hold on him. Also have mercy on the person
who brings the money so that he will not be miserly but
rather he will give enough so that all the harsh decrees
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will leave him and reach and to rise to the three holy and
supernal hands and let the decrees be sweetened in their
heavenly source in Supernal Bina.
For it is clear and known for You that I do not know
how to behave in this matter. The One full of Mercy,
have compassion on this poor generation for which
there is no one who can stand up for us. Have mercy on
all the People of Israel, the Jewish People and on this
sick person and sweeten and nullify all the harsh decrees
from upon him and from upon all the Jewish People.
Cure him speedily. Bring him a full recovery. Return
him to his former strength and enliven him in the near
future and arouse his heart to really return to You. Be
full of mercy towards him for You are the Master of
compassion. Redeem the Jewish People, Israel from all
its troubles for we have no-one to rely on other than
Our Father in Heaven, as it says: “Israel will hope to
the Lord for loving kindness is with the Lord and much
redemption and He will redeem the Jewish People from
all its iniquities”. Amen. So may it be Your will.
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Prayer 184
May it be Your will, O Lord, my God and God of my

fathers, that You help me to merit to attach myself and
commit myself to Your service and Your fear every
single day. May we merit that each individual will talk
with his fellow about fear of Heaven and arouse him
to Your service and Your fear, may each one remind his
fellow, encourage him and inform him of Your truth and
faith and greatness and goodness which fill the entire
world. May the Direct Light and the Reflected Light be
drawn down by us at all times and let the building of
holiness be completed perfectly by us every day, every
hour and at every moment. Let all the holy lights shine
in our hearts in order that we really arouse ourselves to
return to You wholeheartedly; let us not follow the evil
cravings of the heart. Rather, let us merit all our lives
to engage in learning Torah, in praying and doing good
deeds. Let us add holiness and perception every single
day and let every day be lengthier than the one before it,
with holiness, purity, fear and love, with truth and faith,
in order that we never be ashamed or disgraced until the
end of time. Fulfill in us the verse which says: “Then
they who feared the Lord spoke often one to another:
and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a wrote a book
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of remembrance was written before Him for those who

feared the Lord and who thought about His Name”.
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my
heart be pleasing before Your Countenance, O God, my
Rock and Redeemer. Amen and Amen.
Prayer 185
O Lord, our God and God of our fathers, the God of

Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, great,
mighty and awesome God: May it be Your will that You
have mercy upon me and bestow upon me Your holy
dread, awe and fear. Guard me and save me from all
sorts of ‘fallen’ fears, extraneous fears. Let me not be
frightened or afraid of anything in this world, not from
an evil animal, thieves, oppressors, or wicked people. Let
me not be afraid of anything that people are usually afraid
of. Protect me and save me from all of them so that I
will not be afraid or frightened of them at all. Rather, let
me merit, immediately and at great speed, to perceive the
real truth - that they have no power to frighten or scare
me other than by fear from above having fallen and it’s
becoming clothed in physical things. May I raise the fear
to its source, so as to be in awe and dread of You and
Your Presence which is terrifying and awesome: let this
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be, such that I merit to real holy fear and merit to raise
all the fallen fears to their source, to their proper place.
Raise me from level to level, higher and higher, until I
merit to reach perfect, sublime fear, so that I will not
have to draw fear upon myself by being aroused through
lowly things into which sublime fear has fallen.
Rather, may I merit to arouse myself to perfect fear
before You, such that You increase my wisdom, insight
and perception with great holiness, until I achieve perfect,
sublime fear through contemplation of Your greatness
and grandeur; may You be blessed forever. Your fear is
upon all the Angels of the Heavens, upon all those who
dwell above and below. All of them tremble and are in
dread before You…. You, who are full of mercy, great,
mighty and awesome God, grant me really perfect fear,
fear of punishment and fear of Your grandeur with the
utmost, perfect holiness. Help me and save me very soon
and let me merit to have the fear of You upon my face
so that I will never again commit any sin or transgression
at all. If I have transgressed, so let me neither return to
nor add to my folly. In Your bountiful mercy, let me and
my seed and all the seed of Your Nation, the House of
Israel, merit to come close to tzaddikim, who are the
treasury of the Fear of Heaven, for they are full of fear,
awe and dread of You. Let me merit to really come close
to them until I merit, through them, to receive holy and
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pure fear, lower fear and higher fear, forever higher and
higher, with really total perfection. Come to my aid and
save me at all times so that I can break through all the
great, immense obstacles and veils that separate us and
prevent our coming close to tzaddikim who really fear
the Lord...
Merciful and Righteous One, mighty, awesome and
fearful One. You know the immense holy fear to which
the true tzaddikim merited through their worship,
striving and real self-sacrifice for You, until they merited
to recognize You and fear You with wonderful fear,
sublime fear, higher and higher, such that there is strength
in their holy fear to reach us also. Please have mercy
upon us for their sake and bestow upon us something of
their holy and wonderful fear such that we also will merit
always to have perfect fear before You. May Your fear be
upon our faces so that we never again sin. Let us return
to You, truly and wholeheartedly. Have mercy upon me
for Your Name’s sake and let me merit to always yearn
and desire to come close to real tzaddikim and those
who really fear You.
May I merit, by the real craving and desire to break
all sorts of obstacles in the world, to bear all sorts of
hardships, efforts and suffering in order to come close
to true tzaddikim; until I merit to come close to them
and really cleave to them and to draw down and receive
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from them really perfect fear in such a way that I merit

to be truly as You desire, forever and ever...
Master of the World, Full of Compassion, awesome
and sublime – answer me! Let me merit very soon to
really perfect fear. You are holy and Your Name is
awesome. All the hosts of Heaven crawl and tremble
in fear of Your Name. Seraphim, Chayot and the holy
Opanim and all the awesome Angels tremble and are
afraid of the spelendour of Your Majesty. All of them
perform Your will with awe and fear. Grant us fear,
Merciful One; grant us fear, awesome and Fearful One.
God of all the tzaddikim, who are the source of fear –
grant us fear. Bestow Your awe, O Lord our God, upon
all Your works and Your dread over all that You have
created so that all Your works may fear You and all Your
creatures may cast themselves down before You; may all
form one single band to do Your will with all their heart.
Master of the World, You are certainly awesome. Do
awesome and wonderful things with us in such a manner
that we merit to really return to You...
Holy and awesome One, save us and grant us the merit
to achieve all that we have requested from You. Grant
us really perfect fear of You until we merit, by this fear,
to give You great satisfaction and pleasure through this
and bestow upon us great bounty, blessing, compassion,
life and peace, healthy children and plentiful income,
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wealth, honour and life and everything good, materially

and spiritually in This World and the Next, in order that
we never be ashamed or disgraced and never stumble,
forever and ever. Quickly raise us higher and higher
until we merit to the most perfect, sublime fear. By this,
may all our deeds be perfected before You with great
perfection until we merit that Your great, holy Name be
perfected by us at all times with utter perfection, as is
Your good will. May Your Name be extolled forever and
let all the people of the world return to You and serve
You with great awe, fear and fright. “Let them praise
Your great and awesome Name; for it is holy”. Fulfill
very soon the verse which says: “God shall bless us; and
all the ends of the earth will fear Him”. And it says: “For
the Lord, Most High is awesome, He is a great King
over all the earth”. May the words of my mouth and
the contemplation of my heart find favour before You
O Lord, my Rock and Redeemer. “Blessed be the Lord,
the God and God of Israel who alone does wondrous
things. And blessed be His glorious Name forever; and
let the whole earth be filled with His glory”. Amen and
Amen.
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Prayer 186
Master of the Universe, merit me to true and perfect

faith in holy wise men who believe completely in the
words of the true tzaddikim. Let me really believe that
all their words and deeds are not simple but rather they
contain mysteries and great secrets. They are full of
wonders. Within their words are concealed phenomenal,
wonderful and awesome innovations. May I merit to see
the might of God and His wonders through the holy
words of the tzaddikim. Enable us to see that everything
that occurs to us throughout our lives, was alluded to in
their holy words, said in truth, with wonderful sublime
and awesome wisdom. All this was alluded to in their
words and conversations which we heard from them or
from others in their name or from their holy awesome
books.
Merciful One, merit us to perfect faith, understanding
and perception such that I will be able to see, in
retrospect, that everything that occurred to us through
Your mercy, was alluded to previously in their holy
words. Merit me always to be close to and cleave to true
tzaddikim and their loyal followers. May I follow in their
paths of honesty and simplicity and conduct myself in
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these paths with perfect faith until I really return to You,

as You desire.
Bring our redemption speedily, bring us the righteous
Messiah. Fulfill in us the verse which says: “As in the
days of leaving Egypt, let us see wonders”. May the
words of my mouth and the contemplations of my heart
find favour before You, God my Rock and Redeemer.
Blessed are You God, the God of Israel who performs
wonders alone. Let the world be filled with Your glory.
Amen and Amen.
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Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman

Rav Natan’s Introduction

will always easily be able express himself before God

It is good to do both things, 1) to engage oneself in

Through this, let us merit to really return to Him in

Subject Prayer No.

Subject Prayer No.

Humility............................................................ 130, 135, 147, 148, 168

Subject Prayer No.

Suffering................................................................... 106, 165, 170, 180

Master of the World, merit me to the attribute of

it is actually nothing at all. Please merit me to perfect

May it be Your will God our God and God of our

that is not according to Your will. May we never blemish

And merit us to recognize You truly above and beyond

Help me and bring me salvation so that I am always

in the world. Fulfill in us the verse which says: “And I

Master of the World. Merit me to guard the brit

from now on to be saved from all kinds of blemishes of

All Your commandments are faith. God of faith have

In Your bountiful mercy, You sent us true holy and

and save us at this time of trouble for the sake of their

says “I will make you my bride forever. I will make you

Master of the World, You informed us of the greatness

Master of the World, merit us to perform the mitzvah

Have mercy on all the letters and holy sparks which

You, Who makes peace in the heavens, bring peace

Master of the World, You know how far I am from

during the prayers. Thoughts of self importance and

stemming from the status of my family and may I never

Lord, open my lips and let my mouth speak Your

to everyone. Even if I show to one individual some

Master of the World, unique Lord, Who gives the

the darkness in our eyes and our blocked minds prevent

and those of the true tzaddikim. May we finish them

May it be Your will, God, our God, God of our Fathers,

Return them to their place in peace and by this, rectify

You endow man with knowledge and teach understanding.

understanding. Bestow upon us a bounty of knowledge

Master of the World, merciful One, Who cures those

a while my heart becomes blocked in the middle of

of Your face, which is the greatest of all our troubles

O Lord, our God and God of our fathers. Please help

and break myself completely from the cord of impurity.

Please God, save me in Your bountiful mercy, so that

You love judgment, therefore You agree so to speak,

from truly coming close to You. Act charitably to us in

Master of the World, merit me to give away a lot of

You informed us that every motzei Shabbat an aspect of

Havdala over wine every motzei Shabbat. As a result,

Master of the World, who gives the Torah, have mercy

upon us and let us merit to engage ourselves a great

Lord: let the King hear us when we call.” Amen and

You grant knowledge to man. Please bestow upon us

himself holy knowledge. Therefore, please have mercy

Prayer 120 – 121

Master of the Universe, grant me the merit to come

So merit me to yearn and long so much to serve You