Learning Torah in One’s Own Words Arouses the Spirit of the Mashiach When a person learns Torah, he should express what he is learning in his own words. In particular, when he learns with friends and students, he should explain the Torah in words that they can understand. In doing so, he arouses and draws onto himself the spirit of the Mashiach. In the Mashiach’s merit, the Jewish people are saved from troubles — particularly from the passage of anti-Semitic laws, both those that have already been passed and those that are being planned. The Mashiach will rescue us from all our troubles, inspire us to serve God, give us a remnant in the land and revive our spirit. Learning Torah in Our Own Words Master of the world, You have given us the Torah. Have compassion on us and help us learn Your holy Torah for its own sake, diligently, every day.

Help us and save us in every place that we will study, to express what we are learning in our own words.

In this way, may we arouse and draw onto ourselves the spirit of the Mashiach — which is “the Divine spirit hovering over the face of the water” of the Torah — which has been wounded by our sins and endures much illness and suffering because of our wrongdoing, in order to bring us atonement.

May the Mashiach rescue us from all of our troubles, inspire us to serve You, give us a remnant in the land and revive us by providing us with a great refuge.

Have compassion on him and on me. May I learn Your Torah a great deal and express what I am learning in my own words.

Especially when I am learning with friends and students, may I explain and clarify the Torah in words that they can understand and absorb.

May this arouse in me the spirit of the Mashiach, who suffers illness for our sake. May it bring him down to clothe himself in garments of mundane reality, so that he will be with us to revive us and keep us alive during this long and bitter exile.

Compassionate Father, have compassion on us. Help us and save us in his merit. Save us quickly from all troubles and decrees — both those that have already been decreed and those that people wish to decree, Heaven forbid — because our strength, “the strength of the porter, has collapsed.”

“Rock of Israel, arise to help Israel.” Come quickly to save us at this time of trouble with the power and merit of our righteous, holy Mashiach.

May the verses be realized, “Now I know that HaShem saves His anointed, He answers him from His holy heavens, with the might of the salvation of His right hand.”

“He gives great salvation to His king, and He performs lovingkindness with His anointed one, David and his offspring, forever.”

“HaShem is their might, and He is the stronghold of the salvations of His anointed. Save Your nation and bless Your inheritance. Tend them and elevate them forever.”

“HaShem, save! King, answer on the day we call.” Amen and amen.