אות-סח

Importance of speaking to G-d especially when it is difficult, which usually brings expansion Even though a person cannot speak at all, and it seems to him that he is unable to open his mouth in his prayers and his hisbodidus due to his utter physicality and from the weight of the hardships of his body and soul he is undergoing, even still it is necessary specifically then, to strengthen and force himself to call out to Hashem from the midst of his pain and duress, in the aspect of (Psalms 118:5), “From distress I called out to Hashem,” for the main awakening is for the person to first be aroused from the distress and duress, and through this he will usually merit subsequently to come to great expansion, until he is able to pray and express his words properly, until he is able to come to the aspect of ruach hakodesh (Divine inspiration) specifically through this, that he was aroused to Hashem Yisburach from the grips of such distress and moroseness (Likutay Aitzoas, prayer 75). Like we find by King David r.i.p. in all his prayers, that the beginning was from distress and duress, that it was very difficult for him, such as due to the troubles of Absalom or the troubles of Nuval and the likes, and afterwards, in the same prayer he achieved ruach hakodesh (Divine inspiration). And this is the aspect of the shofar (-ritual horn), that the wideness is above, and the narrowness is below by the mouth. And this is the aspect of (Psalms 66:14), “and my mouth spoke when it was difficult for me,” as mentioned above. (Likutay Moharan, torah 279).