A Person’s Tears Help Him Create Torah Insights That Can Overcome Anti-Semitic Decrees When a person sheds tears, he creates new Torah insights. Those insights form the body of a new book of those insights, and also oppose and nullify the decrees of the nations. Eradicating the Schemes of Anti-Semites King, Helper, Savior and Shield, protect us! Eradicate and remove all harsh and evil decrees against us by all kings, ministers and advisors, and incline their hearts to us positively.

You know their thoughts about us at every moment. “Your enemies roar and Your foes lift their heads. They scheme and conspire against Your nation. They plot against the people whom You protect. They say, ‘Let us go and destroy them so that they will no longer be a nation, so that the name of Israel will never be mentioned again.’ They have agreed with a single heart; they have formed a pact against You.”

Master of the world, You alone know the position of the Jewish people at this time among the non-Jews. They consider us as thorns in their eyes, as a despised object that is undesirable, vile, rejected and forsaken.

Gaze down from Heaven and see how we have become an object of derision and mockery among the nations. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter, to be killed, destroyed, beaten and insulted.

Every day and at every moment, every country’s leaders engage in counsel and schemes against the holy religion of Israel.

Their criticisms are directed not against us, but against the religion of Your holy Written and Oral Torah that You gave us through Moses Your prophet, the faithful one of Your house.

Only because of that do they grind their teeth against us — at every moment, in every generation, in every country.

“Not only one has stood against us to eradicate us, but in every generation, they stand against us to eradicate us. But the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hand.”

Our compassionate Father, have compassion on us. When no one stands up on our behalf, may Your great Name stand up for us at a time of trouble.

See, “the [enemies’] power is increasing, and none [of the Jews] are helped or strengthened.” No one takes to heart the intense danger facing the Jewish people in every generation.

Non-Jewish courts and advisors judge them, and constantly plan and take counsel on how to strip them of their religion, Heaven forbid.

That is the entirety of the core of their evil thoughts, as is revealed to You, Master of all, Who knows thoughts.

They have already enticed and lured a number of Jewish souls by means of their counsel and evil decrees. And they plan yet more evil counsel to add more decrees, Heaven forbid, in each and every country, as we have heard a number of times.

Woe to the ears that hear this! What shall we do to nullify and eradicate their schemes and spoil their plans?

“Lord, God, desist now! Who will rise with Jacob, for he is small?” Help us for the sake of Your Name, because there is no one else to stand on our behalf.

You Who are pleased with supplication and accept entreaties, be pleased and appeased with this impoverished generation, because there is no one else to assist us. Help us, because we depend on You.

HaShem our God and God of our fathers, You are filled with compassion. You love Your people of Israel.

The Tears of the Tzaddikim There is power in the holy tears of the true Tzaddikim: they have wept a great deal, spilling many tears before You like water, until many Torah insights were revealed to them.

Ultimately, they composed perfect, holy, pure, wondrous and awesome books composed of the insights of their holy teachings that they created as a result of weeping with copious tears.

Have compassion on the Jewish people, Your nation, and awaken the power of these honest, holy tears so that they will oppose and nullify the decrees of the non-Jews.

Please, Lord, You Who are Unique, You Who are filled with compassion, Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One, You have always been the help of our forefathers, a shield and savior to them and to their children after them in every generation.

May You be moved and have compassion on Your chosen people of Israel at this time of trouble, during the “footsteps of the Mashiach.”

Awaken and arouse the merit and power of these multitudinous, holy and awesome tears that boil and burn like a flaming fire, which all of the holy Tzaddikim wept before You from the earliest days.

Many holy books were composed of their Torah insights that they originated as a result of the tears that they cried to You first.

Recall this and gaze upon it, and have compassion on Your nation, the Jewish people, whom You love, so that these holy tears of the Tzaddikim will oppose the power of the evil tears of the wicked Esau, for the Jewish people have already borne much suffering as a result of his three tears.⁷ 80:4).

footnotes: ⁷ According to the Midrash, Esau shed three tears when he begged his father Isaac to bless him as well as Jacob (see Genesis 27:38). Rabbi Abin taught: The Community of Israel says before HaShem, “Because of the three tears that the evil one [Esau] shed, You made him ruler over the whole world and gave him prosperity in this world. How much more, then, will You do for us when You come to see that we are humiliated and that we pour out our very souls in weeping?!” (Midrash Tehillim

Our compassionate Father in Heaven, gaze from Heaven and see this. Accept the millions and billions of tears that the Jewish people have spilled before You from the day that they came into being until today.

This is particularly so from the day of the destruction of Your Temple until this day — and, in particular, regarding the holy tears of the true Tzaddikim, by means of which they composed their holy books.

You Who are filled with compassion, You Who save us with might and power, grant power to these holy tears, so that the holy tears of the Tzaddikim will oppose the tears of the wicked Esau.

Nullify all of the nations’ harsh and evil decrees — those that have been passed and those that they intend to pass, Heaven forbid.

Uproot, break, shatter and nullify all of them with the power of these holy tears of the true Tzaddikim.

Holy Books Help us and save us so that we will always learn the books of the true Tzaddikim and meditate upon them day and night. May we understand and comprehend all of the words of their holy teachings, and truly uphold their words.

May their books spread out throughout the world. May their wellsprings spread forth so that at every moment the power of their holy tears, through which they composed their holy books, will be aroused.

May all of the evil counsel and decrees of the non-Jews be nullified, broken and uprooted. Swiftly frustrate their counsel. Destroy the intent of all of those who rise up against us to harm us.

Act for the sake of Your Name. Act for the sake of Your right hand. Act for the sake of Your holiness. Act for the sake of Your Torah.

We have no one on whom to rely except You, our Father in Heaven, and on the power and merit of our forefathers, the holy Tzaddikim.

Our Father, our King, nullify all of the harsh and evil decrees against us. Our Father, our King, nullify the counsel of our enemies.

“Do not give the life of your turtledove over to the troops; do not forget forever the life of Your impoverished ones.” “Our soul is cast down to the dust, our belly clings to the earth. Arise to help us and redeem us for the sake of Your kindness.”