A Powerful Prayer: "To Engage in Hitbodedut and Pray for the Community"

A prayer by our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, to merit engaging in Hitbodedut every day before Hashem, and to pray for the people of Jerusalem, the Holy City, that no pain or harm may befall them.

To engage in Hitbodedut and pray for the collective

Please, Merciful and Gracious One, grant me the merit to engage in Hitbodedut before You every single day for a full hour, without interruption, and to yearn and long for You in truth,

And to think of You throughout the twenty-four hours, and may the Name of Hashem never depart from before my eyes for even a single second.

And may I merit to pray for Jerusalem, the Holy City, and for its inhabitants, that no harm or obstacle may befall them,

As it is said, "For the sake of Zion I will not be silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not rest, until her righteousness shines like a radiance and her salvation like a burning torch,"

Until I merit to see You face to face,

As it is said, "You have been shown to know that Hashem, He is the G-d; there is none else."