Prayer for Welcoming Shabbat

1 Master of the Universe, Almighty, from whom no purpose can be withheld, grant me the merit not to fear anyone, not any terrorist, not any Nazi, and not any person in the world. And may I merit to do an hour of Hisbodedus (secluded prayer) every day as an unbreakable rule, and may the verse be fulfilled in me: Do not (31) fear (611) My servant (86) Yaakov (182). And I will never fear any person. Please Hashem, One (1) and only (300), I will sing (248) Your Name (360) Most High (166) = 1985. And I will no longer look at any strange woman, Heaven forbid, nor any strange girl, Heaven forbid. And may I merit to learn Gemara = 244 day and night, and through this, the soul of Rebbe Nachman (268) the holy (415) and awesome (268) = 1985 will be impregnated within me. And I will be among the tzaddikim who say (297) little (119) and do (426) much (212), and through this I will merit holy (419) devotion (512) = 1985. And may I merit, merciful and gracious Father = 4, to say Shir (510) HaShirim (565) every Erev Shabbat, and I will never speak a lie, only truth, and I will be among the tzaddikim who love (64) the (401) truth (441) = 1985.
1 ? Now is the moment of the Geulah (Redemption), by meriting to prostrate on the grave of the "Megaleh Amukos" in Krakow, and through this we will subdue two deaf spies, and also two women who came to Shlomo who were the main impurity of all generations, which are the 405 camps of Lilith. Because Tzelafchad called his first daughter Machlat, so she could subdue Machlat the daughter of Yishmael, which was the greatest and strongest kelipah (impure husk) of all generations, and no one could subdue this kelipah, only Tzelafchad. Who was entirely "Tzel-Pachad" (Shadow of Fear) - the fear of Hashem in all his 248 limbs and 365 sinews, in all his Nefesh, Ruach, Neshamah, Chayah, Yechidah (levels of the soul), and he knew that only his daughter, through her dances, could subdue this awesome kelipah, which no tzaddik until his time succeeded in subduing. Only Machlah through her dances and songs, like Serach the daughter of Asher who merited to enter Gan Eden (the Garden of Eden) with her physical body, because she only sang and played the harp, "Yosef is still alive, King in Egypt, and he has two sons, Menashe and Efraim". And through this melody, and this dance, and the harp she played constantly, she merited to revive the spirit of Yaakov Avinu. As it is said, "And his heart fainted, for he did not believe them," and afterward it is said, "And the spirit of Yaakov their father revived". That everything was through the melodies on the harp, and the songs and dances that Serach the daughter of Asher sang and played, for several hours without any interruption even for one second, like Yosef HaTzaddik who was a leaping man. The Matnos Kehunah says, jumping and dancing and leaping, and constantly repeating all the teachings that Yaakov taught him for 17 years, and thus he could enter the fire, like Rabbi Zeira who also entered the fire, and was also slaughtered by Rabbah, and resurrected on Shushan Purim, which is the time to resurrect the dead, in the secret of the Luz bone that will be resurrected through Melaveh Malkah, and through Mishloach Manos and the Purim seudah (festive meal), in the secret of "And they drank and became intoxicated with him". That for the first time after 22 years they drank wine and ate meat, because Ruach HaKodesh (Divine Inspiration) sparked within them that Yosef is alive and about to be revealed, and the moment they drank the Purim wine, Yosef immediately revealed himself to them, and immediately sent them from all the good of Egypt, old wine that the minds of the elders are pleased with, because it was already close to Pesach, and he needed to equip Yaakov with wine for the Four Cups, corresponding to the four expressions of Geulah (Redemption): "And I will bring out," "And I will save," "And I will redeem," and "And I will take". "And I will bring" corresponds to the cup of Eliyahu HaNavi who reveals himself to everyone at the Seder night, which is the secret revealed by the "Megaleh Amukos" that Gehinnom (Purgatory) is completely closed every week for 51 hours, in the secret of "Hoshana" (Save now), "Hatzlicha na" (Bring success now), "Hoshia na" (Save now). Because the 51 hours are composed of 1.5 x 3 = 4.5 hours x 6 days = 27 + 24 hours of Shabbat = 51, the secret of "Hosha Na" = 51. (Because every prayer must be an hour and a half, {Tanya, Iggeres HaKodesh 1} and then they close Gehinnom for an hour and a half, because Moshe accomplished this, that every prayer that is an hour and a half will close Gehinnom, and they will take all the relatives of the one praying out of there.) And this is what the "Megaleh Amukos" reveals, that Moshe accomplished with Hashem, that every single week Gehinnom will be closed for 51 hours, and they will take all the souls out of there.
1 Master of the Universe, Almighty, in the merit of my accepting Shabbat early, 40-72 minutes before sunset, and lighting candles early, may I merit to resurrect all the dead in the world, and to be like Serach (508) daughter of (402) Asher (501) and David (14) = 1425 the King, peace be upon him, and to see Hashem face to face, as it is said, "When shall I come (+10) = 435 and appear before God". For in the merit of accepting Shabbat early, they succeeded in resurrecting all the dead in the world, just as Serach (508) daughter of (402) Asher (501) = 1411 merited, that in her merit we will subdue all the enemies of Israel, as it is said, "And it was turned about, that (501) the Jews (80) had rule (355) over them (508) that hated them (414)", and through this we will subdue the 11 chieftains of Esav = 1411. And in the merit of my lighting candles early, save me from all evil that comes to the world, "Happy (511) is he that considers (400) the (31) poor (34); on the day of (58) evil (275) Hashem (26) will deliver him (100)" = 1435. And in the merit of the angels marching in the treetops on Erev Shabbat, who are seen by anyone contemplating the sunset of Friday night, in the merit of those angels to whom we sing the song of the angels, "Come in peace, ministering angels, angels of peace," may I merit to heal all the sick in the world, in the merit that I accept Shabbat early. And in the merit that I will not wait for the last minute, may I merit that You open for me the fiftieth gate of the 50 Gates of Understanding (Binah), especially on Erev Rosh Hashanah of the year 5778 (778), because in the coming of (415) Mashiach (363) = 778 I believe.
1 Master of the Universe, Almighty, in the merit of my accepting Shabbat early, 40-72 minutes before sunset, and lighting candles early, may I merit to resurrect all the dead in the world, and to be like Serach (508) daughter of (402) Asher (501) and David (14) = 1425 the King, peace be upon him, and to see Hashem face to face, as it is said, "When shall I come (+10) = 435 and appear before God". For in the merit of accepting Shabbat early, they succeeded in resurrecting all the dead in the world, just as Serach (508) daughter of (402) Asher (501) = 1411 merited, that in her merit we will subdue all the enemies of Israel, as it is said, "And it was turned about, that (501) the Jews (80) had rule (355) over them (508) that hated them (414)", and through this we will subdue the 11 chieftains of Esav = 1411. And in the merit of my lighting candles early, save me from all evil that comes to the world, "Happy (511) is he that considers (400) the (31) poor (34); on the day of (58) evil (275) Hashem (26) will deliver him (100)" = 1435. And in the merit of the angels marching in the treetops on Erev Shabbat, who are seen by anyone contemplating the sunset of Friday night, in the merit of those angels to whom we sing the song of the angels, "Come in peace, ministering angels, angels of peace," may I merit to heal all the sick in the world, in the merit that I accept Shabbat early. And in the merit that I will not wait for the last minute, may I merit that You open for me the fiftieth gate of the 50 Gates of Understanding (Binah), especially on Erev Rosh Hashanah of the year 5778 (778), because in the coming of (415) Mashiach (363) = 778 I believe.
1 Master of the Universe, grant me the merit of Mahalalel = 136, with the best shidduch (marriage match) in the world, and that she will truly be my soulmate who was announced 40 days before my formation. And may I merit a holy voice (Kol = 136) for favor, through fasting (Tzom = 136) to You endlessly, and to money (Mamon = 136) in great abundance, that I should be in the aspect of "And Yosef was the provider to all the people of the land," and may I merit to bestow abundance upon all the people of Israel. And may I merit the ladder (Sulam = 136) of Yaakov, and to see the angels of the Divine Chariot: Nuriel (297), Gavriel (246), Refael (311), Michael (101) = 955, by being all my days in humility (Anavah = 133) and lowliness (Shiflut - 822) = 955. And I will overcome my four elements: fire (301), water (90), wind (214), earth (350) = 955. And may I merit to stay awake on Thursday night and Friday so that I may merit to prepare for Shabbat in humility and lowliness like the Imrei Chaim, peace be upon him. And may I merit to be a mighty man of valor like Mattisyahu (881) and his sons (74) = 955. And may I merit to be a completely righteous person (tzaddik gamur) like Mordechai (294) and Esther (661) = 955, and to bring, like them, the salvation to the people of Israel.
1 ? Master of the Universe, Almighty, from whom no purpose can be withheld, upon my arriving now, after terrible and exhausting wanderings, at the cave of Shammai and his disciples, grant me the merit to fulfill the teaching of Shammai: "Make your Torah study a fixed habit, say little and do much, and receive every person with a cheerful face" (Avos 1:15). Please, Merciful and Gracious One, in the merit of Shammai the Elder and his disciples, who were the sharpest and greatest Torah scholars in Israel, grant me the merit to learn Torah day and night with immense desire and tremendous diligence, without fatigue and without weariness at all. And I will minimize eating, and fulfill the words of Shammai, who set aside every fine animal for Shabbat and did not taste of it during the weekdays (Beitzah 16a). And I will learn the entire Torah with immense desire and tremendous speed, and in the merit of Shammai, all my mental faculties (mochin) will be opened, and I will understand everything accurately in the blink of an eye, without any delays at all and without any prefaces at all. Until I merit to ascend to Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man), to the world where no thought can grasp Him at all, to the Reisha D'lo Etyada (the Unknowable Head), and I will know the entire Torah: Peshat, Remez, Drash, and Sod. And I will know the entire Shas (Talmud) and all of the Rambam, Maggid Mishneh, Kesef Mishneh, Lechem Mishneh, Migdal Oz, Rabbeinu Manoach, Hagahos Maimoniyos, Hagahos HaRamak, the Radbaz, the Ridbaz, and the Gra and all his novellae, and Rabbi Akiva Eiger and all his novellae, and the entire Tur with the Beis Yosef and the Bach, Perisha, Derisha, and Darchei Moshe, and the Shulchan Aruch with the Taz and the Magen Avraham, Shach, Sma, Chelkas Mechokek, and Beis Shmuel. And may I merit to minimize speech, and say little and do much, and every promise I make I will fulfill, and I will not be accustomed to making vows, and every vow I make I will always fulfill and not annul. Until I merit the level of Yehoshua ben Levi, who, in the merit of never annulling any vow, merited to enter Gan Eden (the Garden of Eden) with his physical body. So too may I merit, in the merit of the true tzaddikim, to completely strip away my physicality and merit a holy body from Gan Eden, clean from all jealousy and hatred. And may I merit to be like Rabbi Achai bar Yoshiyah, who, in the merit of not being jealous, merited a complete body even after his passing, and merited to speak with Rabbi Yochanan (Shabbat 152b) and explained to him that only one who has jealousy, his bones rot, as it is said, "and jealousy is the rotting of the bones" (Proverbs 14:30). And I will always fulfill the teaching of Shammai, "receive every person with a cheerful face," and I will fulfill the teaching of the Sages: "Those who are insulted but do not insult, hear their reproach but do not reply, act out of love and are joyful in suffering, about them the verse says: And those who love Him are like the sun going forth in its might" (Shabbat 88b).
1 Master of the Universe, set me as a seal upon Your heart, as a seal upon Your arm, for love is as strong as death, jealousy is as hard as the grave, its flashes are flashes of fire, the flame of God. Please, Merciful and Gracious One, I have come to You in weeping and supplications to be engraved upon Your arm and a crown upon Your head, as it is written, "A woman of valor is the crown of her husband". And to ascend from the Sefirah of Malchus (Kingship) to the Sefirah of Ima (Mother/Understanding), and from the Sefirah of Ima to the Sefirah of Nukva d'Arich (the feminine aspect of the Long Face/Will), and from the Sefirah of Nukva d'Arich to the Sefirah of Nukva d'Atik (the feminine aspect of the Ancient One/Crown). And may I merit to ascend from level to level until I merit to reach the root of the Sefiros, to my root in the Supreme Emanator. And please return the tender fetus conceived within me, which is the soul of an awesome and terrible tzaddik. Please help me return this soul to its root in the Supreme Emanator, and to draw down upon the tender fetus conceived within me a completely new soul. Because these months, Adar (205), are capable of drawing down the new soul to the tender fetus conceived within me: Nissan (170), the soul (400), Iyar (221), the new (322) = Sivan (126) = 722. And this new soul will be the soul of Eliyahu HaNavi, remembered for good, the gematria of (the new) [the soul] Eliyahu (52) HaNavi (68) remembered (233) for good (47) = 400 = the soul. And may I merit to draw down to this new soul the mochin (mental faculties) from the Kesser (Crown) of the Name of Ma"h [= Yod Heh Vav Heh spelled out with Alephs], which will unite with the Kesser of the Name of Ba"n [= Yod Heh Vav Heh spelled out with Hehs]. And may I merit to be attached all the days of my life to the Ein Sof (Infinite) blessed be He, and not to divert my mind from the Name of Havayah (Yod Heh Vav Heh) even for a single second. And to go every day to the Kotel (Western Wall) and to merit all five Names of Ekyeh (I Will Be)... "And He said, for I will be with you, and this is the sign for you that I have sent you"... "I will be what I will be... I will be has sent me to you"... "And now go, and I will be with your mouth and instruct you what you shall speak"... which are drawn from the five Names of Ekyeh in Binah (Understanding). And may I merit the five Alephs that are drawn from the five Alephs in Binah, and through this I will merit to extract the five Alephs that fell to the Sitra Achra (Other Side/Impurity), from which the chariots of Pharaoh receive power to chase after the people of Israel, as it is written, "The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil". And grant me the merit from this day onward to completely exit all the physicality of my body. And my body will transform to the level of a soul, and be completely included in the soul of Rebbe Nachman and in his pure body, which is holier than our souls. And to add day by day, hour by hour, second by second, courage and devotion to the Ein Sof blessed be He. And may I merit to exit from this day until the end of my life completely from the physicality of my body, as the Maor VaShemesh says on Parshas Pinchas: "Let Hashem appoint a man over the congregation who will go out before them" - one who can go out of the physicality of his body and strip himself of physicality, and always be attached to the light of the Ein Sof blessed be He, and be able to connect all the souls of Israel to their root. Please, Merciful and Gracious One, Almighty, from whom no purpose can be withheld, grant me the merit to be included in the soul of the true tzaddik who knows how to strip all of us of our bodies and include our souls in the light of the Ein Sof, and to connect our souls to their root. And so too the soul of the fetus within me, which I have so blemished and corrupted its soul, but I believe with complete faith that by the power of the true tzaddik, whose powers are infinite, he can extract all the arrows, and furthermore transform the hard and bitter drugs with which I poisoned the tender fetus conceived within me into lights of the Ein Sof, to cleave to You, blessed be He. And that he will be born without any physical lusts, but will only be attached to You, blessed be He, all twenty-four hours, every single second, and will always picture the Name of Havayah before his eyes. And may he merit to be like Moshe, the faithful shepherd, who brought down the Torah to the people of Israel, and may he merit to be a man who does not depart from the tent, that there will be no substance in him but only spirituality, and to be like Eliyahu HaNavi, remembered for good, who ascended with his body to Gan Eden. Please, Merciful and Gracious One, grant me the merit to ascend from the Sefirah of Malchus in which I am located, through all ten Sefiros up to the Sefirah of Kesser, and to truly merit to be "a woman of valor is the crown of her husband". And to merit the stones of Kadkod (rubies), gematria of valor [48], and to be like Serach whose radiance shone in all the land of Egypt, and to illuminate all the kelipos (impure husks) and all the darkness, and all the darkest corners of the world will be illuminated by the light of the Ein Sof, which I, my husband, and the fetus conceived within me will merit to draw down to the world. And we will always be able to attain the clarity of the light of the tzaddik, the pure light, the bright light in the heavens, who can also ascend and rectify the highest heavens like us today. And may I merit from this day to pray three prayers a day early and on time, and to accept every Shabbat early, and to be in prayer, and to be "A woman of valor who can find" (4 + = 753), gematria of "Yom (56) Kippurim (356) atones (340) + 1 = 753", that through this all my sins will be atoned for in the blink of an eye, Amen.
1 Master of the Universe, Almighty, during the days of Shovavim (the weeks of reading Exodus), grant me the merit to atone and rectify all the aspects of "one hundred and thirty was its weight", which we read during the eight days of Chanukah every single day. And now we continue their rectification during the days of Shovavim, by entering the cleft of the rock in the month of Teves, about which it is said, "Behold, there is a place by Me", upon which it is said, "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me". Because only the days of Shovavim can save a person from the judgment of Gehinnom, from descending to the seven compartments of Gehinnom without any rising, because of the sparks of the one hundred and thirty. Therefore they offer "one silver bowl full of incense, one hundred and thirty was its weight", and through this they rectify the lights of the Kesser (Crown) of Binah (Understanding), where there are 370 myriads of lights. For through the Shovavim, we reawaken the 370 myriads of lights in the Kesser of Binah, and through them we subdue the angel "Samech Mem" (Satan) who holds the keys to Gehinnom. Because Moshe prayed 515 prayers to nullify the judgment of Gehinnom, and Hashem blessed be He gave him 4.5 hours every day, and 24 hours of Shabbat, which are 27 + 24, which are 51 hours a week. And this is the secret of "Whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem", that only by ascending for the pilgrimage festival to Jerusalem, "that all your males shall appear", is it possible to subdue the fire of Gehinnom, which we subdue anew during the days of Shovavim. And therefore the most important tikkun (rectification) is the tikkun of Shovavim, in which we rectify bodies for all the sparks of the one hundred and thirty.
1 Master of the Universe, Almighty, grant me the merit to connect a limb (Ever) to the Living One who sees me (LaChai Ro'i), "Be'er LaChai Ro'i" (The well of the Living One who sees me), in the secret of Avraham, Ever Ma"h (Limb of 45), Be'er Ma"h (Well of 45), in the secret of "A well of living waters, and flowing streams from Lebanon". In the secret of "Bereishis" (In the beginning) - Ever Shis (Limb of six), Be'er Shis (Well of six), because the well bestows abundance to all six extremities, the six Sefiros: Chesed (Loving-kindness), Gevurah (Severity), Tiferes (Beauty), Netzach (Eternity), Hod (Splendor), Yesod (Foundation). In the merit of your exemplary (941) conduct (929) = 1870, "And Hashem (26) loves (20) the gates of (580) Zion (156) more than all (90) the dwellings of (816) Yaakov (182)" = 1870. And may I merit to welcome (537) the face of (140) the Shabbat (702) Queen (491) = 1870. And through this, may it be fulfilled in me, "And all (56) that (501) he does (775) shall prosper (548)" = 1870. And may I merit to be only (300) "a wholehearted (440) and upright (516) man (311), who fears (217) God (86)" = 1870. And may I merit "the precious (340) beauty of (1081) His greatness (449)" = 1870.
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