Hisbodidus Alone Time
The primary hisbodidus is at night, for then everyone is sleeping, and also that the place should be outside the city, that he should go on a solitary way, that is, in a place where people do not go there even in the day. And through this that one does hisbodidus at night on a solitary way as mentioned above, and clears his heart and mind from all
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even still this is very good. And when he speaks so, abundant words, through this he will usually merit that his heart will be aroused to speak with an impassioned heart befittingly, because speech has a great power to arouse a person. And even if many days and years pass, and it appears to him that he still has not accomplished anything with his w
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Speak to Hashem like you speak to a friend When Hashem Yisburach helps with (one’s) hisbodidus, he can express his words before Hashem Yisburach like a person speaks to his friend. And it is necessary to accustom oneself to this, that he should speak to Hashem Yisburach like he speaks with his teacher or his friend, because Hashem Yisburach exists
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Creator, that one should accustom himself to set a designated hour every day to express his words before Hashem Yisburach in his native tongue specifically. And everything that is with (-on) his heart he should converse before Hashem Yisburach, be it to ask for pardon and forgiveness on the past, be it to entreat for the future that Hashem Yisburac
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Trying to cry is also a distraction Even though crying before Hashem Yisburach with entreaties and beseeching is extremely good, even still, when a person says Psalms or other entreaties and supplications, or converses personally with his Creator, and he thinks and anticipates, and looks mindfully all the time that he should cry and shed tears, thi
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