Love Comes First

In Do Not Fall Back to Sleep, I discussed some general ideas of what to pray for during this half hour. Here are some more practical ideas to pray over.  

Don’t feel bad repeating them over and over again. You aren’t here to convince G-d – He already wants to give us every good in the world, and He wants us to love each other. You are here just to build vessels, which are the words of the prayer, which create containers that G-d then fills with His bounty! 

Pray that every single Jew should return in complete repentance before G-d, and specifically do teshuva for the positive commandment of ahavat Yisrael, loving our fellow Jews, as well as for the commandment to love your fellow like yourself, and all of the commandments  bein  adam  l’chavero, between man and fellow man. 

Pray that everyone should also learn about praying this all-important 30 minutes a day, and do it too! 

Pray that everyone should read, learn, understand, work on, fulfill, and teach others all of the emuna teachings – the books, booklets, CDs, website articles, videos, etc. And specifically: 

The key is to pray on every facet that is necessary so that every single person should properly fulfill the commandments between man and fellow man, to recognize that the entire Torah stands on ahavat Yisrael and that it is not just “another mitzvah,” to strengthen their emuna in order to actually fulfill these oftentimes difficult commandments properly, and that they too should have true ahavat Yisrael, that they too should pray for the Jewish people and the world for 30 minutes a day to love each other and treat each other with honor and respect. 

I want your name on the list! And for each and every name that I receive, I will pray for them!  

 If you have decided to join Rabbi Arush in praying for the Jewish people for half an hour every day, you can send your name (name and your mother’s name format) to Yael Tzarum and she will forward your name to Rabbi Arush to pray for you. Reach her at: yael@breslev.co.il.