Therefore, a person who needs other people for something finds it very difficult to pray in public, since in public, he is overcome by all kinds of insincerity and deceptions that are glazed over with truth.

goal. For this is an important principle: there is no barrier in the world that a person cannot break. He must only have a very strong longing and desire commensurate with the importance of his goal.

Only the Jewish people, through their faith, transcend all the philosophical inquiries and paradoxes that are in the world, because they believe in God and in His holy Torah without any inquiry or logic at all, but rather, with perfect faith.

That is, when I live my own life and I do not need other people, [then I can pray to God alone]. For “When a person needs other people, his life is not life” (Beitzah 32b)-that is, his life is not his life, because he lives off other people. But when I do not need other people and I live my own life, then I will be able to praise God and to pray be

For all barriers exist only for the sake of [strengthening a person’s] desire, and when the intensity of a person’s desire is commensurate with the importance of his desired goal, he will undoubtedly succeed in fulfilling whatever holy thing he wishes to do in the world, no matter what it is.

In this world, however, it is simply impossible to resolve these questions on any intellectual level, and anyone who delves into these branches of study will sink and be lost there, since about such people it is written, “All those who come to her will not return” (Proverbs 2:19). This is because it is impossible to find God there [in these sorts o

Due to imperfect faith, many people stumble into error, making the means an intermediary between themselves and God. In other words, they believe in God, but they also believe in an intermediary, insisting that a means is required. For example, they believe in the means of earning a living- namely, an occupation-and they say that the means of an oc

Therefore, the best advice [for dealing with these images and thoughts] is to pay no attention to them and not to let it bother you in any way that these images and thoughts are standing before you, and not to listen to them at all. Rather, a person should just concentrate on whatever he is doing, be it studying Torah or praying or conducting his b

is no differentiation at all-but rather, “God (YHVH) is the Lord (ELoHIM)” and everything is good. [This refers to God’s