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Pray to attain and fulfill the Torah still beyond your grasp, inculcate, and pray for yet higher Torah The integral aspect of prayer is strong desires and longing for Hashem Yisburach with divaikus (clinging) and complete nullification to the light of the Ain Sof (-Infinite One), until one comes to words, that Hashem Yisburach has mercy on him and opens his mouth to express his words before Him. And this is the aspect of (Proverbs 16:1), “It is up to a person to arrange his heart (-thoughts and words) and from Hashem the (actual) rhetoric is (provided/on the tongue).” And the main thing is to make from the Torahs (-holy teachings) – prayers, as is explained elsewhere (Likutay Moharan vol. 2, Torah 25, see above article 2 and 84), namely that one should pray before Hashem Yisburach that he should merit to attain and fulfill what is hidden from him, that is, what he still did not merit to attain and fulfill. And then, when he merits to accomplish his request, to attain and fulfill this aspect as well, this is the aspect of making from prayer – Torah, namely to make from prayer (which is divaikus (clinging) to the Ain Sof (Infinite One), of whom there is no grasp, for this is the aspect of hidden, for also in this he still has no grasp) – Torah (that is, what is revealed), and then it is necessary to pray so as to attain another level higher than this, in the conception of the Torah, and the main thing is – in the fulfillment of the Torah, and so forth from level to level, until the Ain Sof (the Infinte One), because through prayer it is possible to ascend from the utter nadir of the lowest level to the pinnacle of the highest level, until the Ain Sof (the Infinite One). (Likutay Halachos, Laws of Gifts, law 5).