Aspire Higher

"a prayer, even if does not emanate from the depths of one's heart, still prepares the individual for salvation. In a prayer a person promises the Creator that after he receives spiritual strength he will concentrate all his efforts on returning the spiritual aspirations that are lacking at the present moment. In this lies the great power of the prayer. A plea of this kind is accepted by the Creator, and as a result a person advances by the path of the Kabbalah, rather than by the path of suffering.

For this reason, a person should never agree to the path of suffering, even if he is certain that the sufferings are being sent by the Creator; and even if he firmly believes that everything that is sent by the Creator is sent for his benefit. The Creator does not desire a person to passively accept suffering. On the contrary, He expects an individual to prevent suffering, to avoid the condition in which the Creator must push a person from behind by sufferings, to strive by himself by means of faith, that it is for his benefit to ask of the Creator this advance forward.

Even if one feels that he does not yet possess a true desire in himself to attain the right state, one should still ask the Creator to grant the true desire and faith through the power of prayer. That is, one should ask the Creator to give him a desire to ask, which he lacks."