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"And May I Merit to Feel How Every Word and Letter in Prayer Wraps Around Me and Embraces Me" • An article from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days) for Torah 24 in Likutey Moharan

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"And May I Merit to Feel How Every Word and Letter in Prayer Wraps Around Me and Embraces Me" • An article from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days) for Torah 24 in Likutey Moharan

About two weeks ago, the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days) wrote a prayer for Torah 65 - "And Boaz said to Ruth." This is currently being studied as the "Torah of the time" by the 'Afuyim B'Libo' (Baked in His Heart) project. Before you is the full prayer as written by our teacher, The Rav shlit"a:

Prayer for Torah 65

Master of the World, Almighty, from Whom no purpose can be withheld, merit me that when I am at the end of the prayer, I will still be at the beginning of the word of the prayer. For prayer is the Holy of Holies, and it is one solid piece from the beginning of the prayer "Mah Tovu" (How Goodly) and "Adon Olam" (Master of the World) until the end of "Aleinu L'Shabeach" (It is our duty to praise). It is all one solid piece that cannot be separated or divided into details or components.

And may I merit to pray the entire prayer word by word, letter by letter. And may I merit to feel how every word and letter in the prayer wraps around me and embraces me, saying to me: "Look at me, at my beauty, my splendor, and my radiance, and do not move away from me, and do not go to glean in another field. For my beauty, radiance, and glory are enough to give delight and spiritual vitality to all 248 limbs and 365 sinews, and there is no need for any more words or letters."

But since every letter and word represents entirely new worlds, one must continue the prayer. And one must press his fingers into his eyes to escape from the cheizu d'hai alma (the vision/illusion of this world).

And this is the meaning of [the teaching] that in the future, Hashem (the Holy One, Blessed be He) will make a dance for the tzaddikim (righteous ones) in the time to come, and each and every one will point to Hashem with a finger and say, "This is Hashem for whom we hoped."

To download the full booklet of the current Torah - Afuyim B'Libo:

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