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Only by trying with all my might to enter my friends into love and connection toward each other. If I do so for 5 minutes I’ll have a prayer according to the 5 minutes. If I do so all day, I’ll have a prayer that covers the whole day.
1. If my friends incorporate my deficiencies and raise a prayer for the entire Ten, could it make me less pressured to do my own work in drawing the Light, since it sounds like the Light will come through my friends without me asking or working? No, they have to pray for you, but you’ll receive nothing without your own deficiency. Thus, “one who prays for his friend is answered first.” Wouldn’t the Creator want to value my own prayer over my friends’ prayer for me, as that indicates a stronger desire and deficiency in me if I were to raise a prayer myself? This is also answered by the above.
2. In your reply, you mentioned that prayer ultimately needs to include everybody. Did you mean all Israel or all people? Whenever I try to pray for all people, I hear a little voice in my head: “If that worked, then this world wouldn’t have any problems.” So my reasoning tells me to pray only for a particular person, situation, or a small group. I am not sure what my response should be to that little voice. We can remember humanity as a whole, in the background, but you’re right. The prayer that is realizable is for your ten’s next step toward connection, by which the whole world with us takes a step toward connection, by which they are less incompatible with the Upper Light’s quality of Bestowal, by which they will feel less darkness and suffer less. The truth is, there isn’t another order by which anything will get better for them – only worse.
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The Jewish Choice is great if he is into history and the Jews’ place in it. Everyone should read it. New Antisemitism might also be an appropriate address to what he is feeling (antisemitism). A Bundle of Reeds is also great but geared a bit more toward those with at least some familiarity with the Jewish sages.
Hi Helen,
Yes, we ultimately need to include everyone in our prayer and we should always be praying. We have more a problem of not being in any prayer than fine-tuning our prayers. In other words, if we’re in some kind of prayer that we are trying to aim toward the goal, it’s already accepted. Either we get a correction on the prayer, or it’s answered. Meaning it’s more important that in the next moment we’re raising another prayer. Generally we want to pray on a whole Kli since our Kli is the whole world. We can pray for a part of it too, but then we want to aim for this part to be included correctly in that whole, the lack of which is the only problem there can really be. We don’t need to limit our prayer though – that I can or I can’t pray for those who are close to me – but to try and have a more inclusive prayer – that it’s most effective if I’m realistic, relating to reality as it truly is, that first I’m included in my ten, my ten is included part of the world kli, which is inside the total reality, and we want to bring this whole system back to wholeness inside the Creator.
We always need to consider ourselves half guilty half innocent because we have a Will to Receive and a Point in the Heart. I should never think I’m already fine, until the end of correction.
