Faith is the Foundation Stone of the Torah / One Draws Up Counsel with the Aid of Tzaddikim to Attain Faith / A Wholehearted Person Receives What He Needs in Order to be Healed / Ultimately, Everyone Will Recognize God’s Greatness / A Jew Must be Rescued from the Egotism of False Leaders / One Prevents Nocturnal Emissions By Being Joyful / When a Person Rectifies Judgment, He Rectifies Sexuality / A Person Should Not Go Beyond His Limits / Sanctifying the Power of Imagination / Proper Eating Brings Faith and Holiness into the World / A Person Should Draw the Joy of Nisan onto the Entire Year / On the Days of Repentance, a Person Seeks Everything He has Lost / A Person Must be Willing to Appear Mad to Serve God / The Lungs are Holy at Their Source Faith is the foundation stone of the entire Torah and the basis of all worlds. If a person suffers a lack of faith, that damages everything in his life. Such damage can be repaired only by his restored faith. To attain faith, a person must draw counsel from the depths of darkness, to which end he requires the assistance of a holy man of understanding. A person should strive to be among the students of such a Tzaddik, in whose company he should strive to gather and rectify all of the elements of faith. In general, a person must seek the holy words of the true Tzaddikim who revive all souls, from the greatest to the smallest. These Tzaddikim have composed many holy books filled with counsel and inspiration on how to serve God. * God can cause plants to grow and to be picked at the proper time so that they will have the power to heal Jews’ diseases. When a person possesses a simple wholeheartedness, he receives exactly what he needs in order to be healed. * Some gentiles become converts in potential, others in actuality. Ultimately, all people will know of God and will yearn for true faith. Everyone will come to serve God and recognize the power of His sovereignty. Many gentiles will become Jews for the sake of God’s great Name. However, pollution taints converts, and that causes blemishes. The righteous converts must purify themselves of that pollution, even as Jews ask God to rescue them from those blemishes. * Each Jew must strive to be rescued from the sword of egotism of the false leaders of the generation, who rule over the impoverished nation by usurping rabbinical authority. * A person must nullify his bad desires — particularly the lust for sexual wrongdoing. He must pray that he will never experience a nocturnal emission. Because such an emission comes as a result of depression and bitterness, he must strive to strengthen himself with joy. When judges and rabbis are corrupt and pervert justice, holy types of love fall and inject sexual impropriety into the world. This results in the uncleanness of nocturnal emissions. When a person recites the description of the binding of the Chariot before going to sleep,¹, the Divine Presence of God. It is customary to recite the binding of the Chariot during the Bedtime Shema. he can attain a rectification of judgment. One must strive to nullify the lust for sexual impropriety and, more generally, rectify the “seals of purity” in the merit and power of Moses, the Seven Shepherds,² and all true Tzaddikim. That is related to attaining the holiness of tefilin, which constitute the seal of truth. As a person waters his heart with holiness, he extinguishes the heat of the heart that burns for evil lusts — particularly the lust for sexual wrongdoing. Beyond that, he should not accustom himself to indulge in sexual desire even when it is permitted, and he should sanctify himself when engaging in marital relations. He must guard the moisture and fluids in his body, not expending them through this desire, so that they can rise to strengthen and renew his mind. * Even in holiness, a person should not seek that which is beyond him. Instead, he should gaze only at what he is permitted to. He should draw onto himself the holy constriction appropriate for his mind, so that it will not be destroyed by going beyond its limits. * One should avoid evil musings and worthless dreams, which come about by means of a demon. By sanctifying his power of imagination, he rises from the animal realm to the human realm. By incorporating the power of his imagination into the power of his holy awareness, then, when his mind is quiescent during sleep, the power of his imagination and the residue of the consciousness of holiness will be on the level of an angel. He should strive to draw the image of God onto himself, until he attains dreams by means of an angel, dreams that are good and straight, holy and pure. In such a dream, he sees the light of the face of the true Tzaddikim and he hears them speak words of God without any admixture of falsehood. Then, when he awakens, he should strive to remember everything that he saw and heard in his dream. * When a person eats in holiness and purity, solely for the sake of maintaining his soul as well as his body, new comprehensions are drawn onto him, until he has the power to draw up the deep water of good counsel from which holy faith grows. In addition, he strengthens the angels, which bring him abundance and good income. Such angels do not allow the Side of Evil to siphon off energy from the abundant flow that is drawn onto it. The Side of Evil can take, at most, a minimal amount to provide it with a constricted life force. * A person should draw the holiness and joy of the month of Nisan onto himself. He should then strive to draw that onto the entire year. This strengthens the holy angels, bringing them laughter, might and gladness. The mitzvot and good deeds that a person engages in throughout the year are, as it were, delicacies that God tastes on Rosh HaShanah. On that day, a person should strive to hear the shofar from a worthy shofar-blower. In the merit of the tekiah, he should draw onto himself holy wisdom, understanding and knowledge. In the merit of the teruah, he should draw onto himself the holiness of the true shepherd of Israel and the holiness of the covenant. And in the merit of the shevarim, he should attain true dreams that come by means of the holy angel and attain the rectification of judgment. During the Ten Days of Repentance, a person should continue to rectify all of the blemishes that he caused throughout the previous year — particularly those of the covenant. He must ask God to help him find everything that he lost throughout his life and help him purify and sanctify himself. On Sukkot, he should strive in the merit of the mitzvah of sukkah to rectify and strengthen the holy angel and attain a dream by means of an angel, and to eat pure, unadulterated foods. In the merit of the holiness of Shemini Atzeret, he should strive to rectify the judgment of holiness, and in this way be rescued from the blemish of the covenant. For the sake of God, a person should be willing to engage in behavior that appears mad to others. He should cast himself into all kinds of trash for the sake of God’s commandments. * A person should draw upon himself the holiness of the lungs from their supernal root, so that they will not suffer from any blemish, whether physical or spiritual. The Waters of Counsel That Heal Blemished Faith “From the depths have I called to You, HaShem. HaShem, hear my voice. May Your ears be attentive to my outcry, my entreaty.” Unique and Singular Master of all, You are higher than everything. None is higher than You. “My King and my God, I will pray to You.”

footnotes: ¹ The binding of the Chariot refers to the “Chariot of God” which is surrounded by four angels — Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael — and upon which “rests” the Shekhinah ² The Seven Shepherds are Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph and David.

I cry out to you, I plead with You, I prostrate myself before You. “I will prostrate myself and bow down. I will bend my knee before HaShem Who made me.”

“I stretch my hands out to You. My soul turns to You like a weary land.”

My heart cries out to HaShem. From the depths of my heart I call to You, from the deepest depths I beg for Your true compassion and graciousness. “Like a deer yearning along the channels of water, so does my soul yearn for You, God.”

Like doves moaning, “beating their breasts,” so does my heart moan for Your vast compassion and kindness.

“As a lion or young lion growls over his prey, though a band of shepherds gathers against him, he does not fear their voice and he is not subdued by their stirring.”

So shall I roar, cry out, moan, yearn, call, hope and wait for Your compassion and salvation. I will not be silent, but I will always call out to You, HaShem my God and God of my fathers.

For my spirit is oppressed, and I cannot hold back my words. “I called out Your Name, HaShem, from the lowest pit.” “You have heard my voice; do not hide Your ear from my sighing and my cry.” “HaShem, hear my voice when I call; be gracious to me and answer me.” Help me and save me so that I will truly attain full faith.

My Father in Heaven, please rescue me from blemishes to my faith. In Your vast compassion, guard me and rescue me from the terrible blows that come in consequence of damaged faith, Heaven forbid.

Nothing helps repair that — not remedies or prayer or the merit of the forefathers, or even sighs, groans and moans.

Everything is damaged and spoiled by a blemish in holy faith, which is the foundation of the entire Torah and the basis of all worlds, with all that is in them. All of those worlds are dependent and based on holy faith.

Please, awesome, holy God, filled with vast compassion, help me cry out to You from the depths of my heart, from the deepest depths, as I need to call to You now, when all of the pain of each and every person’s heart is revealed to You, Master of all.

Help me cry out to You from the heart with a truly profound voice, “with a still, small voice,” so that I will draw onto myself the wonders of Your awesome compassion, kindness, graciousness, salvation and rescue.

May I arouse and reveal true, deep counsel out of the depth of this darkness in which I am trapped because of my many sins.

“You do great things beyond comprehension and wonders without number.” You reveal “depths from the darkness” and illumine the shadow of death.

Bring me out from dimness to light. Perform wonders for me. Pour forth and reveal counsel from afar so that I will raise my holy faith. In Your vast compassion, have compassion on me. Graciously grant me holy wisdom, understanding and knowledge, so that I will dig down and reveal the waters — the “deep waters, counsel in the heart of man”— from which holy faith grows.

May I and Your entire nation, the House of Israel, reveal and illumine deep counsel from the depths of the darkness.

Rectify me with good counsel before You. In Your compassion, pour good counsel into the world.

Rescue me and Your entire nation, the Jewish people, from doubt and confusion, so that nothing in the world will cause us to experience any doubts. Rather, may we always quickly and easily attain true, complete counsel in accordance with Your good will, regarding material and spiritual matters, and regarding body, soul and money.

In this transient world, may we succeed with true and eternal success to go on Your good paths, to come close to You with a full heart, and to obey Your true and proper counsel. “Guide me in Your counsel and afterward receive me with glory.”

Seeking a Man of Understanding Compassionate Father, have compassion on us. Send us a man of understanding, with a holy soul, who will have the power to draw forth holy, deep counsel for us, as in the verse, “Counsel in the heart of man is deep water, and a man of understanding will draw it up.”

In the merit and power of the true Tzaddikim, help us draw Godly spirituality into areas of constriction.

Holy Areas of Constriction and Sustenance In Your compassion, help us so that our good deeds will create such areas of constriction and holy bodies that will be fit vessels to receive Godly spirituality with great holiness, in accordance with Your good will.

At every moment, may we create new, holy and pure worlds and entities, and always draw Godly spirituality into these holy constrictions.

In Your compassion, send sustenance and income to all created, formed and made beings, which You sustain and support in Your great compassion and kindness, “from the horns of the aurochs to the eggs of lice.”

In Your great goodness, You give all created beings in the world constant sustenance, as it is written, “He gives bread to all flesh, for His kindness is forever.”

In Your vast compassion, help us and save us. Even before we need it, give us our income with great breadth, in a way that is allowed and not forbidden, with honor and not with disgrace, with ease and not with suffering.

Do not make us dependent on gifts or loans from flesh and blood. Rescue us forever from debts and loans. Help us quickly repay all of our loans and debts.

Our Father in Heaven, You know that it is very difficult for us to bear the yoke of the debts that hang around our necks, causing us to stumble and distracting us from the modest amount of Divine service that we wish to begin to engage in.

HaShem, in Your vast compassion and great kindness, please give us income and support us, because we do not know any way or stratagem to draw down income. We rely on You alone. We have cast our burden upon You so that You may support us.

Our Father in Heaven, God Who has shepherded us since we came into being, give us our income and fulfill our needs with great abundance, in great holiness and purity, before we require anything, in accordance with Your good will, without any trouble or confusion, so that we will return to You completely and always live in accordance with Your good will.

Eating in a Holy Manner May we eat in great holiness and purity. May we eat solely for the sake of maintaining our body as we minimize the lusts of our nature.

May we be satisfied with eating little. May we be among the Tzaddikim who eat solely to satiate their holy souls, as in the verse, “The righteous man eats to satisfy his soul.”

Help our eating be so holy that we will satiate our souls with shining lights to take pleasure in HaShem, to be sated and take pleasure in the shining, supernal lights and “gaze upon the pleasantness of HaShem and visit in His palace.”

May the verse be realized in us, “HaShem will guide you always and satisfy your soul in drought” [in which the Hebrew word for “drought” can also be read as “shining lights”], until we can always illumine our soul with a satiety of these supernal, shining lights.

As a result, may new comprehensions and insights always be drawn onto us, until we have the power to dig up and draw forth the deep waters of good and complete counsel from which holy faith grows.

May we discover and shine onto ourselves and onto the entire Jewish people good, deep and wondrous counsel that is a wonder of wonders drawn from the depths of the depths, counsel that is whole and proper, true, straight and clear — holy counsel that cannot be frustrated in any way. And with this, may we arouse and foster holy faith.

Master of the world, filled with compassion, You are “great in counsel and mighty in deed,” “wondrous Advisor, mighty God, everlasting Father forever,” “awesome in praises, performing wonders.”

You perform wonders at every moment. You have performed great and wondrous miracles and wonders for the Jewish people in every generation.

Have compassion on us now, in this generation, in these difficult times when, due to our many sins, holy faith has been deeply blemished and many of the children of Your nation have stumbled, as You know.

Do wonders on our behalf. Bring us to good, true counsel, so that we will truly attain complete faith and rectify all blemishes to faith.

May we examine ourselves at every moment to see the condition of our holy faith, and encourage ourselves with added faith at every moment, with a true wholeness of heart, in accordance with Your good will.

Perform life-giving wonders on our behalf. Bring us forth from dimness to light, from darkness to brightness, “for You light my lamp; HaShem my God lightens up my darkness,” because “even darkness will not obscure anything before You, and night will shine like day; as darkness, so is the light.”

May we always thank You for the wonders and favors that You have performed with us from the beginning, and for the great and awesome wonders that You perform with us at every moment.

“HaShem my God, You have done much, wonders and thoughts for our sake. No one compares with You. I would tell and speak them, but they are too many to recount.”

May the verse be realized, “HaShem, You are my God; I will exalt You. I will give thanks to Your Name because You have sent wonders, counsel from the earliest times; Your faithfulness is well-established.”

And a verse states, “I will thank HaShem with all my heart; I will tell all of Your wonders.” “I will thank You, because I have been formed awesomely. Wondrous are Your deeds, which my soul knows well.”

Being Healed May we raise fallen faith and rectify all of its blemishes so that it will be expanded and strengthened.

May we all believe in You and in Your true Tzaddikim with faith that is strong and proper, whole and holy, pure, straight and clear — without any confusion, and without any foreign musings or thoughts.

May we draw complete healing onto all of the sick of Your nation, the House of Israel (and, in particular, onto [Hebrew name], the son/ daughter of [mother’s Hebrew name]). God, please heal this person’s spirit and body. Heal all of our illnesses, all of our pains, and all of our wounds.

Nullify and remove all of the terrible wounds and all of the evil, clinging illnesses that affect us and Your entire nation, the House of Israel.

Send complete healing from Heaven to all those of Your nation, the House of Israel, who have suffered overwhelming blows, overwhelming wounds for which no remedy in the world helps, or any prayer or merit of the forefathers, or any crying out or groaning, due to the fact that their faith is blemished.

Please, HaShem, have compassion on them and on us for Your sake. Act for Your sake alone and not for ours, because You alone know how wretched we are.

Act in accordance with the greatness of Your awesome wonders. Send them complete healing from Heaven. Remove illness from our midst. For You are the faithful and compassionate God, King and Healer. Our ability rests only in the prayers of our mouth.

You are the Healer of the sick Who needs no reason to heal. Heal us, HaShem, and we will be healed. Save us and we will be saved, for You are our praise. Cause the rain to fall in its time for life, blessing and satiety. In Your compassion, cause the plants and herbs to grow so that they will have the power to heal the diseases of Your nation, the House of Israel.

In Your compassion, assure the correct, proper order of all of the seeds and plants in the world in accordance with the time and place fit for them. May no fruit or herb be plucked prematurely.

In Your compassion, bring about circumstances for the good so that everyone will eat and drink exactly what he needs for his true healing. May everyone possess a simple wholeheartedness and thus receive exactly what he needs in order to be healed.

Give me and the entire Jewish people our food in its season and its time, so that it will contain the power of all of the remedies that each person needs, materially and spiritually, in body and soul.

No doctor in the world knows how to attain this. Only You do, because You are the Cause of all causes and You know all hidden things.

May the verse be realized, “Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly blossom.”

Remember the covenant of our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In the merit of our forefathers and the merit of all of the true Tzaddikim, show us incredible wonders. “With Your right hand, bring about Your kind, saving acts that distinguish those who take refuge [in You] from those who rise up [against them].”

“With awesome deeds, in [Your] charity answer us, God of our salvation, Stronghold of all the ends of the earth and the distant seas.”

May the verse be quickly realized in us, “Behold, I am making a covenant before all of your people. I will perform wonders that have never been brought into existence in the entire world or among any nation. Then all of the people among whom you live will see the awesomeness of God’s deeds that I am doing with you.”

“Just as it will be wondrous in the eyes of the remnant of this nation, so shall it be wondrous in My own eyes.” “This has come from HaShem — it is wondrous in our eyes.” “Great are You, doing wonders, You, God, alone.” “He alone does great wonders; His kindness is eternal.”

Increasing the Faith of Jews and Non-Jews Help us and give us the strength to fortify and increase our holy faith with all our might, until all of the false faiths in the world will fall. And when they are subdued and fall, that will give honor to the glory of Your Name.

“Remove the idols from the earth. May the idols be cut away so that the world will be rectified under the sovereignty of the Almighty. May all people call upon Your Name, and in so doing, turn all the wicked of the earth to You.”

May many righteous converts constantly join the children of Israel, Your nation, so that many gentiles will become Jewish, converting for the sake of Your great Name. May everyone come to serve You and recognize the power of Your sovereignty.

May people become converts — some in potential and some in actuality. May even those who do not convert recognize the precious beauty of Your greatness and sovereignty.

May all people know that there is a Unique, Primal Being, may be He blessed and may His Name be elevated forever and ever. May they all yearn for Your true faith.

“May every created being know that You created him, and may every formed being understand that You formed him, and may all that has breath in its nostrils say, ‘HaShem, God of Israel, is King and His sovereignty rules over all.’”

In Your vast compassion and intense kindness, help us and guard us. Rescue us from the blemish caused by the pollution that taints converts, so that they will not harm Your nation, the Jewish people, at all.

Help all of the righteous converts quickly purify themselves from their uncleanness and pollution. Rescue and guard me and Your entire nation, the Jewish people, so that no trace of the pollution or impurity that they had absorbed from the gentiles among whom they previously lived will cling to us.

Attaining Humility Have compassion on us. Always guard us and rescue us from egotism and pride. Help us attain true humility.

Have pity, mercy and compassion on us. All of the hidden things of the heart are revealed before You. You are aware that we do not know any of the true ways of humility.

In Your vast compassion, please rescue us from all egotism, ulterior motives and coarseness, which Your heart abhors. As the verse states, “Everyone with a haughty heart is abhorrent to HaShem.”

Help us truly sense our lowliness. May we be much more lowly in our eyes than our actual degraded, base state warrants, until we attain true humility, in accordance with Your good will.

Overcoming False Leaders Compassionate Father, have compassion on us. You are mighty and great to save. You are a shield that helps us. You are the sword of our pride. Guard us and rescue us from the sword of egotism of the false leaders of the generation, who seize greatness for themselves.

Their greatness was not given to them from Heaven at all. Rather, they seize control of the generation for no good reason. They rule over the impoverished nation by usurping rabbinical authority and they overwhelm Your nation, the Jewish people. They are the harmful forces of the world, as is revealed before You Who know hidden things.

Master of the world, You know the hearts of all people. What will we say? What will we tell You? You know everything, hidden and revealed.

“You rescue the poor person from the one stronger than he, the impoverished and the pauper from the person who robs him.” Rescue us from them. Guard us from them.

Protect us in the merit and power of the true Tzaddikim, true leaders in whom we take refuge. Guard us and rescue us from all destructive forces, the false leaders, so they will have no power to harm us, Heaven forbid, in any way whatsoever — neither in the material realm nor in the spiritual realm. May their hands not act with cunning.

We have no one on whom to rely except our Father in Heaven.

Subdue, uproot and nullify all of the power and authority of all of the false leaders. Remove the sword of pride from their hand, “and shatter the raised arm.”

Eradicate falsehood from the world and reveal the truth. May the verse be realized, “Because of the plunder of the poor, because of the outcry of the needy, now I will rise, says HaShem. I will grant them salvation.”

Eradicate the trait of egotism from the Side of Evil that is within me and within Your entire nation, the House of Israel, from now and forever.

HaShem our God and God of our fathers, You are filled with compassion. You are holy and awesome, holy beyond all holiness. Pour Your supernal holiness onto us.

Rectifying the Covenant Help us subdue, break and overcome our evil inclination so that it will be subjugated to You. May we overcome and break our bad desires and nullify the lust for sexual wrongdoing entirely.

Send us “protectors of the land,” true Tzaddikim who will protect us and eradicate this evil desire, until we subdue, break and nullify the seal of the “husk” and rectify the seal of holiness.

Rescue us from ever experiencing a nocturnal emission. Help, save and shield us so that when we engage in marital relations, we will sanctify ourselves greatly. May we not accustom ourselves to indulge this desire even when it is permitted, Heaven forbid, but distance ourselves from it in all sorts of ways.

Have compassion on our remnant so that from now on we will guard the moisture and oils in our body at least somewhat, not expending it, Heaven forbid, through this desire. May we carefully guard our moisture and oils in order to raise them to the brain in great holiness and purity.

May we purify and elevate all of the moisture and oils from the blemish of “his flesh was sealed” to the rectification of the holy seal, which is the rectification of the brain.

May our mind be strengthened and renewed in great holiness and purity, with wisdom, understanding and knowledge. May our mind always shine with added wisdom and understanding, in great holiness.

Grant us the true holiness of tefilin, which are the seal of truth. As the verse states [referring to tefilin], “Place me as a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm.”

Our Father, King, “Living God, our Portion, our Rock, command the rescue of the beloved soul from destruction for the sake of Your covenant that You placed in our flesh.”

In Your compassion, You imprinted us with the seal of the sign of the holy covenant. In Your great and awesome compassion, have compassion on us, help us, save us and guard us from now on so that we will guard this holy seal.

Please rescue us from the seal of the Side of Evil. “You can do everything; no purpose can be withheld from You.” “God, You are great and do wonders.” Who will tell You what to do?

Please have pity, mercy and compassion on us for the sake of Your Name. Give us the power of the “protectors of the land” so that we will purify and elevate ourselves from the seal of the “husk” to the seal of holiness. As the verse states, “There is pride in his strong shields, closed with a narrow seal.”

Help us fulfill the mitzvah of tefilin properly, with all of its details, particulars, intentions and the 613 commandments that are dependent on it, with a good heart and great joy, a joy that is fitting for a person who is crowned with the beauty of the holy and awesome tefilin, the crown of the King.

In the merit of the holiness of the seven tips of the two holy letters shin on the sides of the headtefilin, one shin with three tips and the other with four, may we draw onto ourselves the holiness of Moses-Mashiach, who is the true shepherd of Israel, composed of all Seven Shepherds.

In the merit and power of Moses and of all of the Seven Shepherds, and in the merit of all of the true Tzaddikim, may we break and nullify the lust for sexual wrongdoing and break the seal of the “husk,” and in every sort of way rectify the seal of holiness.

You are the King Who desires life. Seal us for a true life for Your sake, God of life.

You redeem us from death and destruction. Rescue us from the well of destruction. In Your mighty compassion, please rescue us from the lowest Sheol.

Redeem us from insolent, evil lusts — in particular, from the insolent, evil lust for sexual wrongdoing. Rescue Your nation from insolent people, Your sheep from the hand of shearers. Perform wonders that will bring us life.

Master of the world, Master of the world, You alone know who stands against us at every moment, who wants to overcome us, Heaven forbid, and close and seal us into a number of seals of the Side of Evil, seal upon seal, Heaven forbid.

“He fenced me in so that I cannot get out, He weighed down my chains.”

HaShem, You are the God of truth, and Your seal is truth. We trust in You alone. We rely on Your great kindness. We place our spirit in Your hand. Rescue us, HaShem, God of truth.

“In Your truth, cut them off.” You will surely break all of the seals that they have placed on us. Please take us out of the seal of the “husk.” Raise us quickly, sanctify us and purify us of all impurity and contamination. Help us break the lust for sexual misbehavior truly and entirely.

Please seal us with the seal of holiness, seal upon seal, so that strangers will never lay their hands upon us.

Place the seal for a good life on all of Your Jewish children in the merit of the true Tzaddikim, who are Your seal, with whom You created and placed a seal upon Your world from beginning to end. In their merit and power, draw the power of the “protectors of the land” onto us.

Through them, may we raise and purify ourselves from “his flesh was sealed” to the seal of holiness. May our mind shine with great holiness and purity, with clear and pure mindfulness. May our mindfulness “grow ever brighter until the day is complete.”

Not Going Beyond the Proper Border Have compassion on us. Help us constrict our mindfulness with holiness. May we guard our mind carefully so that it will not extend beyond its border, Heaven forbid.

Even in holiness, may our mind not cause damage by going beyond its border. May we not seek that which is beyond us, or investigate that which is concealed from us.

May we gaze only at what we are permitted to, with true, sharp, quick, pure mindfulness, a mindfulness that is proper, true, firm and established, straight and faithful, in accordance with Your good will.

Help each and every Jew draw onto himself the holy constriction appropriate for his mindfulness, so that his mind will not cause damage by going beyond its border.

Almighty God, Your Divinity suffices for every creature. Every creature, from the highest to the lowest, is limited in what it can take from Your Godliness, with a border around its mind beyond which it may not venture.

Almighty God, be compassionate to us. Pour onto us the holiness of tefilin from the root of their being.

Tefilin combine the shining of holy mindfulness with the holy constriction of the mind of each and every individual on his level.

Rising from the Lowest Places “You support the fallen, You revive the dead with vast compassion.” Have compassion on us. Pour onto us the holy, pure words of the true Tzaddikim who revive souls, from the greatest to the smallest. Restore, revive, heal and strengthen our terribly weak and depressed spirits.

Among these souls, have compassion, pity and mercy on me. Restore, strengthen and encourage my bitter soul. For my soul is bitter to me. HaShem, You Who have known Your servant, do not deliver Your servant to the “unscrupulous woman.”

“Please, HaShem, I am Your servant, Your servant, the son of Your maidservant. You have loosened my bands.”

Please help us. Save us. Revive us. Restore our feeble soul with every type of delicacy that restores the soul with “seven types of advice.” “Sustain me with flagons of wine, spread my bed with apples, for I am lovesick.”

Pour onto us “the words of HaShem [that] are pure words,” which are able to revive all of the fallen souls of Your nation, the Jewish people, that fell to where they have fallen, in different ways, fall after fall.

Sustain and support them. Elevate them step by step. Assist them and raise them up.

Strengthen weak hands and support stumbling knees. Strengthen the weakness of their hands. Restore them with every type of delicacy that restores the soul.

“Your words raise the person who stumbles, and You make buckling knees firm.”

May the verses be realized, “Seven times the righteous man falls and rises.” “HaShem kills and gives life, He brings down to Sheol and raises up.” “He raises the poor man from the dust, He lifts the impoverished man from the ash heap.”

Raise us quickly from all of the disgraceful places into which we have fallen in these generations. “I said, ‘HaShem, be gracious to me, heal my soul, for I sinned against You.’” May HaShem guard us and rescue us, and not deliver us into the hands of our enemies.

HaShem, sustain us on our sickbeds after You have erased our restfulness when we are ill. It is impossible to imagine anyone as sick, in pain and stricken as we, who suffer such blows to our soul in these times.

From the sole of our feet to our head, there is nothing whole in us. We are filled with wounds, contusions and lacerated sores.

These wounds have been sprinkled, bandaged and softened with oil, with remedies and drugs more expensive than gold and pearls — with which the true Tzaddikim of previous generations healed us.

These Tzaddikim composed many holy books, all of whose words revive the soul — books filled with wondrous and awesome counsel and great inspiration on how to truly serve You. Yet despite that, we are not healed.

“Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?” “Have You indeed rejected Judah? Has Your soul despised Zion? Why have You struck us, and we have no remedy? We hope for peace but there is no good, and for a time of healing, but behold, there is fright.”

You Who have mercy on the poor, have mercy on our poverty. See our lowliness and the length of our exile. “Bring me back and I will return, because You are [HaShem] my God.” In Your supernal holiness, revive us and raise us. Please restore us. Please revive us with Your Torah and with Your holy mitzvot.

“He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of justice for the sake of His Name. Even when I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear evil, because You are with me. Your rod and staff comfort me.”

Master of the world, Master of the entire world, You know the bitterness of our soul, which is literally more bitter than death. “The strength of the porter has collapsed,” and who can bear that bitterness? Woe to us, because we are shattered.

Teach us the way of the Tree of Life, which will sweeten the bitterness of the stormy waters that have grown so strong during this time, at the end of days. Help us expel them and remove them from our midst now and forever.

Sanctify us with Your mitzvot and give us our portion in Your Torah. “The Torah of HaShem is perfect, it restores the soul,” taking it from the way of death to the way of life. “Will You not return and revive us, so that Your nation will rejoice in You?”

Certainly You will bring everything to an end that is in accordance with Your will, as You have told us. For You are faithful, HaShem our God, and Your words are faithful. Not a single one of Your words will return empty.

“The way of God is perfect, the word of HaShem is refined, He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.” “The words of HaShem are pure words, silver, refined from a cauldron onto the ground, filtered seven times. You, HaShem, guard [good people], You protect [a good person] from [an evil] generation forever.”

Help us, for we rely on You. “HaShem, God of Hosts, bring us back; illumine Your face, and we will be saved.”

Holy Dreams May it be Your will, HaShem our God and God of our fathers, that in Your vast compassion, You have compassion on us. Help us have holy dreams, dreams by means of the holy angel, dreams that are justified and true.

Do not confound me with bad ideas, bad dreams or evil musings. Rescue me from worthless and meaningless dreams, dreams that come about by means of a demon, Heaven forbid.

Raise me from the animal realm to the human realm. Help me sanctify and purify my power of imagination. May my power of imagination be incorporated into the power of my holy intellect, so that when my mind is quiescent during sleep, the power of my imagination and the residue of the consciousness of holiness will be great, on the level of an angel.

Draw the image of God onto me until I attain dreams by means of an angel, dreams that are well-established, dreams that are good and straight, holy and pure, and in accordance with Your good will.

Rescue me from dreams of foolishness, nonsense, vanity and falsehood. Transform all of my dreams regarding myself and all of the Jewish people for the good.

May my thoughts, mind and ideas always grasp, cling and bond to You, to Your holy Torah and to Your true Tzaddikim.

In a dream, may I see the light of the face of the true Tzaddikim and hear them speak words of the Living God — true and holy words without any admixture of nonsense, or any admixture of lies and vanities that are drawn from a detrimental place, Heaven forbid.

When I am awake, may I always remember clearly all of the holy, true matters that You help me see and hear in a dream. Give me the strength to always fear You and serve You in a holy way. May all of my dreams be for the good.

Holy Eating and Drinking In Your vast compassion, help me and save me so that all of my food and drink will be pure, without any dross at all. May no trace of the admixture of demons be found in my food. Give me the power and might to strengthen the angel.

Help me always be joyous. May I have the power and might to be only joyful always.

May I eat in great joy, holiness and purity. May the verse be realized in me, “Go eat your bread in joy and drink your wine with a good heart, for God has approved of your deeds.”

By means of joy and gladness, may I strengthen the angel. May the holy angels be strengthened by means of the might of my joy.

May they draw onto me abundance and good income, food and drink that are purified without any trace of the Side of Evil at all.

May they not allow the Side of Evil and demons to siphon off any energy from the abundant flow that is drawn onto me. May the Side of Evil and the demons only serve as a conduit, and only draw a minimal amount of that flow, to provide them with a very constricted life force.

Attaining Joy and Holiness In Your compassion, draw all abundance to Your holy nation, the Jewish people. May the hands of foreigners not rule over us. May we always be joyful. May no stranger participate in our joy.

Help us strengthen ourselves at every moment with great joy and gladness, until we are rescued from the uncleanness of a seminal emission, Heaven forbid, which comes because of depression and bitterness, Heaven forbid.

HaShem, You are filled with compassion. You think thoughts so that no one will remain driven away from You. Please rescue us from this grievous uncleanness. Please guard us and rescue our soul from a nocturnal emission.

Help us sanctify our thoughts and draw holy consciousness onto ourselves by means of the “protectors of the land,” until we completely break the lust for sexual wrongdoing.

May we be absorbed into the holiness of Moses, of all of the holy Seven Shepherds of holiness, and of all of the true Tzaddikim.

May holy consciousness and the holiness of the tefilin be drawn onto us from the supernal root of consciousness and tefilin.

Help us always feel joy. May we always strengthen the holy angels with the power of our joy.

Pour down onto us from Heaven a good income with great abundance. May all of our eating and drinking be purified, without any trace of the admixture of the power of demons and the Side of Evil.

May these forces have no power to heat anyone with the fire of lust, Heaven forbid. Rescue us and Your entire nation, the Jewish people, from ever experiencing a nocturnal emission.

Yearning to Return to God Please, HaShem, what can we say? How will we speak? What troops will we muster to support our words? What shall we say before You Who dwell in the heights? What shall we relate before You Who reside in the Heavens? You know all things, hidden and revealed.

“My King and my God, I will pray to You.” I prostrate myself before You. “I have raised my eyes to You Who dwell in Heaven.”

I have no instruments — words, thoughts or that which is beyond thoughts — in which to clothe the narrative of the many and intense troubles of my soul.

I yearn for You like an animal of the field. “Like a crane and a swallow, I chatter, I have moaned like a dove. My eyes are raised to the heights. HaShem, rescue me, pledge Yourself to me ... I will cause my sleep to flee because of the bitterness of my soul.”

I stand before You as I am. My only hope is the prayers and pleas that You graciously allow me to pray and plead before You, until I attain complete salvation and return to You in truth — emerging from dimness to light, from grief to joy, from darkness to a great light, so that I will truly be in accordance with Your will.

HaShem my God and God of my fathers, You are full of compassion, salvation and rescue, mercy and graciousness, and goodness. “HaShem is good to all, and His compassion rests upon all of His works.” Help me from now on. Guard me and rescue me so that I will no longer sin.

Rescue me from ever experiencing a nocturnal emission. May I not fantasize by day, which leads to uncleanness at night. “Keep Your servant clear of willful sins. May they not rule over me. Then I will be whole and cleared from great iniquity.” In Your compassion, help me always be joyful.

For the Month of Nisan

The Holiness of the Month of Nisan Help me draw the holiness of the month of Nisan, the head of the months, onto myself and onto the entire Jewish people.

Just as in Nisan You took Your nation, the Jewish people, out of the exile of Egypt — the “nakedness of the land,” which is the blemish of the covenant — so too, in Your vast compassion, save me and redeem every Jewish soul in every generation, every year.

Rescue all of us in the power of the holiness of this month, the head of the months, the first month of the year, the holy month of Nisan, the redemption and salvation of Israel.

By means of this, may we all truly attain the redemption of the soul. Redeem us and our souls quickly from the well of destruction, from the deep mire. Bring us out of the depths of the sea.

Rescue my poor soul from the blemish of a nocturnal emission, Heaven forbid. May I never stumble in this sin — I and my offspring and the offspring of Your nation, the House of Israel — from now and forever, neither unintentionally nor intentionally, neither under duress nor willingly.

Our Father, our King, have mercy on us. Our Father, our King, have pity and compassion on our children and infants. Help us draw the holiness and joy of Nisan onto the entire year.

May we always be joyful, and always bring laughter and joy, might and gladness to all of the holy angels. May they have beauty and splendor, might and gladness in their place throughout the entire year, as in the month of Nisan.

May our joy always strengthen the holy angels. May the holy angels always gain might and intensity.

May the power of the demons and the “husks” be eradicated. May they not draw any energy from the holy flow of abundance that descends to us.

May our food and drink be purified. As a result, may we be rescued from the uncleanness of a nocturnal emission, Heaven forbid. May we always be holy and pure.

In Your truth, teach us and guide us. In accordance with Your truly good will, teach us the ultimate truth of how to fast.

Emerging from Dimness to Light Have compassion on us for the sake of Your Name. Have compassion on us for the sake of Your vast and mighty kindness. Have compassion on us for Your sake alone. For You have vast and endless compassion that suffices to apply to us as well.

In Your compassion, You support supernal and lower beings. You have caused Your vast compassion to flow into the world. In Your world, You have helped many Tzaddikim, pious people, God-fearing people, wholehearted people, and those who are worthy and repentant. “I want to count them, but they are more numerous than the sand.”

In Your compassion, You have helped these people break and nullify the vanities of this world and emerge from dimness to light. In Your compassion and with Your mighty arm, You redeemed them from the exile of the soul, until they attained what they attained.

If not for Your compassion and kindness, they would not have the power to withstand the deep sea of the vanities of this world. As our sages have said, “Every day a person’s evil inclination overwhelms him, and if not for the fact that the Holy One, blessed be He, helps him, he would fall into its hand.”

You Who are deeply compassionate, help me truly return to You.

Because of my many sins, I was slack in the work of Heaven, and I did not serve You adequately. Never has a person of my quality succeeded in attaining complete repentance.

Still, every day, at every moment, You create great wonders without number. At every moment, You generate new compassion and kindness for the Jewish people.

In the merit of the holy Tzaddikim of past generations, show me a wondrous, new compassion that was never before revealed, so that from now on I will return to the true way of life.

Do not allow me to err any further in tangled and confused ways that are not in accordance with Your will. May I no longer go in the dark. May I trust in the Name of HaShem, and rely on my God.

HaShem, do not allow me to stray from Your ways. Do not harden my heart, which would keep me from fearing You, because everything comes from You. “You can do everything; no purpose can be withheld from You.”

In Your vast compassion, sanctify and purge my thoughts. Guide me to the way of ultimate truth. Give me hope, and I will no longer be lost. Help me truly live in accordance with Your will, so that I will rectify everything that I destroyed.

May my eating always be joyful, with great holiness and purity. May I always be joyous.

Overcoming Unworthy Leaders You Who are filled with compassion, have compassion on me. Rescue me and guard me and Your entire nation, the Jewish people, from unworthy rabbis and judges whose deeds are improper.

You know all that they have caused us, because of our many sins. There is no one to stand up on our behalf, and we lack the power to overcome and subdue them.

Please, HaShem, King of judgment, in Your vast compassion, grant us holy judgment. Rescue us from unworthy judges and rabbis who corrupt judgment and damage the supernal Chariot, the thrones of judgment, where holy love rests.

Because of these corrupt judges and rabbis, holy types of love fall from there and inject the lust for sexual impropriety into the world. As a result of the perversion of judgment of those judges and rabbis, the uncleanness of nocturnal emission comes about, Heaven forbid.

Merciful, Righteous One, HaShem, You love judgment. You love Your nation, the Jewish people.

You know what is inside of us, how the lusts of our body pursue us at every moment, until we stumble and there is no one to help. In addition, the blemishes drawn from the totality of the world also cause us harm.

Master of the world, we cast our burden upon You. In Your compassion, rescue us and guard us so that no perversion of judgment will harm us at all.

Rescue us from fallen loves. May we raise and purify all such fallen types of love and truly return them to their holy root.

Help us rectify judgment in great holiness and purity, with the ultimate, complete rectification.

Be with us always. Guard us, help us and save us so that we do not blemish our tefilin and our mind. May no evil moisture or oils, which correspond to the drop of Esau and Ishmael, rise to the brain.

Master of the world, You are aware that I do not know how to pray for this. I cast my burden upon You alone. “Avenge me, God, and battle on my behalf against an impious nation; rescue me from a man of falsehood and injustice.”

“Judge me in accordance with Your righteousness, HaShem my God, and may others not rejoice over me.” “Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of Your throne; kindness and truth come before Your countenance.” “May our judgment go forth before You; may Your eyes see [our] upright acts.”

You Who are filled with compassion, have compassion on us for the sake of Your Name alone, even though we have done so much wrong that we have no righteous advocate, Heaven forbid.

HaShem, You alone protect us and guard us. You alone rescue us from all that we need to be rescued from, in the material and spiritual realms. You rescue us from unintentional and intentional wrongdoing and from rebelling, so that we may truly attain the rectification of the covenant.

“In the absence of a strong advocate to oppose the prosecutor, speak to Jacob with law and judgment, and judge in our favor, King of judgment, Who grasps in His hand the trait of judgment.”

In Your vast compassion, help us bind together the holy Chariot so that all of its angels will be bound together: Michael on the right, Gabriel on the left, Uriel in front and Raphael behind, who are altogether referred to by the acronym ARGaMan (purple).

There holy love rests. As the verse states, “King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the trees of Lebanon. He made its pillars of silver, its couch of gold, its curtain of purple, its interior inlaid with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.”

Before we go to sleep, help us always recite with great feeling the description of the binding together of the Chariot: “In the Name of HaShem, God of Israel: On my right is Michael, and on my left is Gabriel, and before me is Uriel, and behind me is Raphael, and over my head is the Presence of God.”

In Your great power, help us bind together the holy Chariot, until we attain rectifications of judgment. May the “thrones for judgment, thrones for the house of David” be rectified.

May we completely rectify the blemish of the fallen loves, so that we will not experience any evil lust drawn from those fallen loves.

Help us attain holy love, so that we will always accept upon ourselves the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven with a great and powerful love, with great joy and gladness.

Guard us and rescue us always from experiencing a nocturnal emission. Help us quickly attain a true and complete rectification of the covenant, in accordance with Your good will.

For Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot

Hearing the Voice of the Shofar In Your vast compassion, help us hear the voice of the shofar on Rosh HaShanah from a worthy shofar-blower.

May we fulfill the mitzvah of hearing the sound of the shofar on Rosh HaShanah perfectly, with great holiness and purity, with intense gladness and joy, fear and love.

Help us bring about all of the holy rectifications that need to be realized by means of the sounds of the shofar: the tekiah, shevarim and teruah.

In the merit of the holy tekiah, may we draw onto ourselves the holiness of wisdom, understanding and knowledge. May we scrub our soul so that it is entirely bright, supernal and holy.

In the merit of the holy teruah, may we draw onto ourselves the holiness of “Moses [the] shepherd,” the true shepherd of Israel. In his merit, power and holiness, may we truly attain the holiness of the covenant.

In the merit of the holy shevarim, may we attain correct and true dreams that come by means of the holy angel. In this way, guard us and rescue us from the blemish of the covenant and from a nocturnal emission on all levels. As a result, may we attain the rectification of judgment.

Help us water our hearts with great holiness, and extinguish the heat of the heart that burns for evil lusts — in particular, the lust for sexual wrongdoing.

Draw onto us the waters of kindness and compassion, the waters of knowledge and understanding. Draw onto us “water with joy from the wellsprings of salvation.” Pour water to extinguish the thirst and heat of the heart of the Side of Evil. May we attain a rectification of judgment.

May the verse be realized, “Justice will be revealed like water, and righteousness like a mighty river.”

Help us attain the holiness of Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret.

May we celebrate these awesome, holy and pure days with awesome, great holiness, with intense joy and gladness.

Help us keep the holy mitzvot that apply on these awesome, holy days, with great joy, fear and love, with a good heart, mighty intent and great perfection, with all of their details, particulars, intentions and the 613 commandments that are dependent on them.

Thus, may we bring about all of the holy rectifications that need to be realized on these holy days.

In Your vast compassion and kindness, help us celebrate the holy and awesome Rosh HaShanah with great holiness and purity.

In the merit of the holiness of Rosh HaShanah, may we truly attain complete faith. Help us and save us so that all of the sparks of holy faith will gather together as a result of the holy gathering of Your nation, the Jewish people, in all of the holy congregations on the holy days of Rosh HaShanah.

May the verse be realized, “The heavens will praise Your wonders, HaShem, Your faithfulness amid the holy congregation.” By means of this, may we attain a rectification of holy consciousness.

Help us so that great holiness will be drawn onto us in all of the five senses that are drawn from the brain — the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. May great holiness be drawn down from the supernal root of the five senses to the senses as they are in the brain.

Draw Your complete providence onto us from the beginning of the year to the entire year. Always supervise us with Your eye of mercy, as in the verse, “The eyes of HaShem your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year until the end of the year.”

In Your compassion, hear the voice of our prayers, pleading, outcries, groans and sighs, and the shofar-blowing of Your nation, the Jewish people.

Draw Your great fear onto us and enliven us with the fear of HaShem. May the verse be realized for us, “He will be enlivened by the fear of HaShem.”

“HaShem our God, place Your fear upon all of Your creatures, and Your awe upon all that You created. May all creatures fear You and all created beings prostrate themselves before You. May they all form one group to do Your will with all their heart.”

May we increase mitzvot and good deeds the entire year, until on Rosh HaShanah, You taste our mitzvot and good deeds.

In Your compassion, help us rectify the positive commandments and make them into tasty delicacies that You love. Stretch out Your hand to receive those who return to You. Bring us back and accept us in complete repentance before You.

For the Ten Days of Repentance

The Gift of Repentance Have compassion on us. Help us and save us so that we will return to You in true, complete repentance, especially on the Ten Days of Repentance. On the Ten Days of Repentance, may we rectify all of the blemishes that we brought about throughout the entire year — in particular, the blemish of the covenant.

Compassionate One, in Your vast compassion, please sanctify us with especially great and awesome sanctity on the Ten Days of Repentance, during which You are available to all who truly seek You. As the verse states, “Seek HaShem when He is to be found; call to Him when He is near.”

In Your great compassion and mercy, You gave us this good gift, these holy Ten Days of Repentance. You know that we are flesh and blood, and molded from clay, and that “there is no righteous man in the earth who does good and does not transgress.”

Therefore, You brought healing and balm prior to our wounds. From the beginning You informed us of this, and from the start You revealed this. In Your vast compassion and mighty kindness, at the beginning of the year, You give us these ten holy days, the Ten Days of Repentance, from Rosh HaShanah to Yom Kippur.

On these days, we have special power to return to You with complete repentance and to rectify all of our blemishes, transgressions, sins and iniquities from the entire year.

Therefore, please help us. Please be gracious to us so that we will not lose this good gift, Heaven forbid.

Because of our many sins, the Side of Evil overcomes us even on the Ten Days of Repentance. As a result, a number of years have passed by without our attaining complete repentance, even on the Ten Days of Repentance.

For our many sins, we have brought about a number of blemishes before You on the Ten Days of Repentance themselves, and on all of the holy days: on Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah.

We did not guard these holy days properly, without blemish. We blemished them a very great deal in thought, speech and deed — unintentionally and intentionally, under duress and willingly.

And now all that we can hope for is the King’s charity when we cry out to Him, “My sin is too great to bear.” Our transgressions are too many to count. If not for Your compassion and kindness, “I would have perished in my affliction.”

You Who are filled with vast compassion, help us from now on to return, and to seek and find everything that we lost from the day that we came to be upon the earth until this day.

Help us from now on to be purified and sanctified with great holiness during the entire year — especially on these holy days of awe, from Rosh HaShanah to Simchat Torah.

Bring us to true, complete repentance during the Ten Days of Repentance to rectify all that we destroyed. May we then truly and completely rectify the blemish of the covenant in order to rectify the seal of holiness.

May we at last attain on the holy day of fasting, on Yom Kippur — which is a great and awesome day, the Shabbat of Shabbats — forgiveness of our transgression, forgiveness of sin and atonement of iniquity, to complete the rectification of the seal of holiness.

Weeping Out of Joy on Yom Kippur Help us celebrate the fast of the holy and awesome Yom Kippur in complete holiness and purity.

May we then repent completely and weep out of joy and gladness in Your great Name.

May we confess before You with every sort of confession, and detail all of our transgressions, sins and iniquities to You, and regret them greatly from the depth of our heart, with absolute truth.

May we abandon them absolutely, and resolve in truth and with a full heart never to commit them again under any circumstances, and never return to any foolishness. If we have acted foolishly, may we not continue do so.

In Your great compassion, forgive us. Grant atonement for all of our transgressions, sins and iniquities that we have committed before You.

In Your compassion, rectify all of the seals of holiness. Place us, Your nation, the House of Israel, “like a seal upon your heart, like the seal upon your arm.”

Seal us for a good, long life and peace, for true life, a life in which we will truly do Your will. Seal us in the book of true Tzaddikim.

The Rectifications of Sukkot Help us celebrate the holy festival of Sukkot with great holiness and purity, and with intense joy and gladness in Your great and holy Name. May we be happy and rejoice in Your salvation.

May we be only joyous on the holy days of Sukkot, the season of our joy, to celebrate and rejoice with all our might.

Help us fulfill the mitzvah of sukkah and the Four Species with great joy, with all of its details, particulars, intentions and the 613 commandments that are dependent on it.

In the merit of the holy mitzvah of sukkah, may we rectify and strengthen the holy angel, and attain a dream by means of an angel, and pure foods without any admixture of dross whatsoever. May food not harm us at all. And may all of our dreams be established for us for the good.

In the merit of the holiness of Shemini Atzeret, rectify the judgment of holiness. In this way, rescue us always from the blemish of the covenant and from a nocturnal emission, Heaven forbid. May the holy drop be received and held in great holiness, in accordance with Your good will. May it never be destroyed, Heaven forbid.

Students of the True Tzaddikim Guard us and rescue us from unfit rabbis and judges. Nullify their power and governance in the world.

In Your vast compassion, have pity on us. May we and the entire Jewish people merit worthy rabbis and judges who will establish our religion properly, who will judge us with an ultimately true judgment, so that we will truly attain the rectification of judgment and we will truly rectify the covenant completely on all levels, in accordance with Your good will.

Have compassion on us for the sake of Your Name. Fulfill all of our requests for the good — whether You treat us as sons or as servants.

“If as sons, have compassion on us as a father upon sons, and if as servants, our eyes are turned to You, until You will be gracious and bring our judgment to light, You who are awesome and holy.”

In Your great compassion, give us a true rabbi and leader. In Your vast compassion, help us come close to true Tzaddikim who have a worthy yeshivah with worthy students, in accordance with Your good will.

May I also be included in the holy yeshivot of true Tzaddikim, among their worthy students.

Through the holy yeshivot of the true Tzaddikim, may we gather and rectify all of the elements of holy faith. May we truly attain complete faith.

May the verse be realized in us, “Thus said HaShem, ‘I have recalled the kindness of your youth, the love of your nuptials, how you followed Me in the desert, in an unsown land.’”

May our minds be rectified by the true Tzaddikim, who will shine the holiness of their holy consciousness into us. They will teach us knowledge and understanding, and the way of judgment; they will reveal to us the ways of Your kindness, strengthen us in Your service, purify our hearts to truly serve You and gladden our feeble souls.

We have no one on whom to rely except the true Tzaddikim. We connect all of our prayers and our service to them.

HaShem, please act for the sake of the true Tzaddikim. Give us true, complete and simple faith without any crookedness at all. Never drive us away from faith, Heaven forbid, even for a moment.

Guarded by Faith May I always be strong and firm in Your holy faith: during my lifetime, at the end of my life when my soul leaves my body, and after my death.

Wherever I am, may I be in accordance with Your will and good, straight judgments. May holy faith always guard me, so that I will never be ashamed and never stumble.

“Even when I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear evil, because You are with me. Your rod and staff comfort me.”

Help me. Help me. Send me the unearned gift of holy faith. In Your great mercy, have mercy on me. Do not treat me in accordance with my transgressions. Do not repay me in accordance with my sins.

Have mercy and compassion on me and on Your entire nation, the Jewish people, in the merit and power of the true Tzaddikim. Guard us and rescue us from every type of heresy and perverseness of the heart, and from every type of question or challenge that should never arise in our heart or mind.

May we always be strong in Your holy faith, like a peg that cannot be moved.

Draw down faith and pour it into the world. May holy faith increase and grow stronger, and rise and stand in its place, until all false faiths and heresies fall and are eradicated from the world.

May they all be subdued and fall. Uproot them, break them, eliminate them, subdue them, cast them down and nullify them absolutely, from now and forever.

Reveal the truth in the world. May everyone in the world return to Your holy faith. May many righteous converts be added to Your nation, the Jewish people.

Overcoming Egotism Give us the power to clarify and rectify the blemish of pride that is drawn down, Heaven forbid, as a result of non-Jews becoming converts. May we break and nullify all of the blemishes that they bring into the Jewish people, and clarify and raise everything to holiness.

Help us cast off pride and egotism, every type of which the mouth can speak and the heart think.

Help us attain true humility and raise all pride to You. You alone should possess pride, greatness and governance. As the verse states, “HaShem has ruled, He has garbed himself with pride, HaShem has garbed Himself, HaShem has garbed Himself with might; the world is established so that it will not totter.”

Holy Sleep May we completely rectify the covenant and truly sanctify our minds and intellects with ultimate holiness.

May we sleep a holy sleep, a good and sweet sleep. Illumine our eyes lest we dream death.

May we always fall asleep in the midst of words of Torah — a sleep of life that is good, pleasant and sweet. May the verse be realized in us, “Sweet is the sleep of the worker, whether he eats a little or a great deal.” May we go to sleep with goodness and awaken with compassion.

Serving God with Simplicity Have compassion on us, Father of compassion, so that we will always truly serve You with wholeness and simplicity, without any cleverness at all.

Help us and save us so that we will cast away all cleverness for the sake of Your holy service — both worldly wisdoms, which are truly foolishness and vanity, and holy wisdoms as well. May we cast them all away from ourselves in order to truly serve You.

May we cast away our entire intellect and all wisdoms. May we always truly serve You in wholeness and absolute simplicity, without any cleverness at all.

Mad with Devotion to God For the sake of Your love, in order to give You pleasure, may we even engage in behavior that appears mad in the eyes of others. May we fulfill the verse, “You will always be intoxicated with her love.”

May we cast ourselves into all kinds of trash and mud for the sake of Your holy mitzvot. Even for the sake of something slight, if it is truly Your will, may we cast ourselves down and roll in all sorts of trash and mud in order to truly please You.

Help us and save us so that throughout our lives we will keep all 613 commandments, with all of their details, particulars and intentions, with all of their related rabbinic commandments and with all of the branches that extend from them.

May we truly do everything that is Your will with great energy and genuine self-sacrifice, and roll in all sorts of trash and mud for the sake of anything that is truly Your will, in order to please You.

Attaining All Rectifications Help me and Your entire nation, the Jewish people, to merit being on the level of sons to You and not on the level of servants, as in the verse, “You are sons to HaShem your God.”

Give us permission to seek in the treasure house of the King, like a son who goes through his father’s treasure house. Have mercy on us “as a man has mercy on his son who serves him.”

May we distinguish “between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and one who does not serve Him.”

May the verse be realized, “I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who serves him, and you will return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and the one who does not serve Him.”

Bring us our righteous Mashiach quickly, in our days. May the light of his holy wisdom illumine us until we know Your ways, until we understand why in some cases the righteous man prospers and in other cases the righteous man suffers, and why in some cases the wicked person prospers and in other cases the wicked person suffers.

May we know, understand and grasp the ways of Your holy judgments, “for You are righteous, HaShem, and Your judgments are straight.”

May we attain the entire rectification of judgment through our righteous Mashiach, may he come quickly in our days. As the verse states, “[David’s prayer] concerning Solomon: God, give Your judgments to King [Solomon], Your righteousness to the son of King [David]. May he judge Your nation with justice and Your poor with judgment.” “May he judge the poor of the nation, save the sons of the impoverished and crush the oppressor.”

Help us attain the secrets of the Torah, and raise and bring forth the judgment of holiness from the lowest depths. Depth calls to depth: Pour forth your waters.

Raise judgment from Your depths. May the judgment of holiness return to its place. May the verse be realized, “Justice will be revealed like water and righteousness like a mighty river.”

May our lungs always be whole — physically and spiritually.

Guard us and rescue us always, so that we suffer no blemish, lack, discomfort or pain in our lungs, neither physical nor spiritual. May our lungs always be perfect and whole.

May we at last draw onto ourselves the holiness of the holy lungs from their supernal root above, which is composed of all of these holy rectifications that we have mentioned before You.

In Your vast compassion, fulfill all of our desires for the good. Draw onto us all of these rectifications and illumine us with these in the most complete way.

These are: the rectification of faith, the rectification of the covenant and the mind, the nullification of egotism, the rectification of dreams, the rectification of food by means of joy, the rectification of judgment, and all of the other rectifications that are incorporated into these — those that we have mentioned before You and those that we have not mentioned before You.

With all of these rectifications, aided by Your vast compassion, may we quickly come to serve You in truth and in complete faith, in great joy and true humility, in ultimate truth, in accordance with Your good will from now and forever. Amen, selah.