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Prayer is the fiftieth gate transcending even the angels and is thus the vehicle of final redemption from utter defilement

Against the present lengthy exile, which is called the exile of Edoam, the aspect of the strengthening of the klipa (-husk, evil force) of Amulaik, which distances a person from Hashem Yisburach as it does, there is no aitza (-remedy, advice), and no wisdom, and no approach (Proverbs 21:30), just, to abound in prayer, and entreaty, and screaming, and yelling, and crying out for salvation to Hashem Yisburach, without measure and limit, until Hashem looks and sees from the heavens. For prayer is – above everything, and encompasses all the fifty gates of holiness. For prayer is the aspect of (Brachos 34b), Eden, no I has beheld it (Isaiah 64:3), for it is the root of the Torah, for from there stem all the springs of the wisdom of the holy Torah. For prayer is the aspect of (Job 28:7), “a path unknown to the vulture,” the aspect of the fiftieth gate, of which no one attained perception. That is, someone who engages in prayer, and strengthens with all (his) might to profuse in prayers and conversations between himself and his Maker, (he) arouses the supernal eye, which is the aspect of the fiftieth gate, the aspect of “a path unknown to the vulture.” For there is no intellect that can attain conception and understand how far reaching the power of the prayers of Israel is, even of the lowest of the low, especially what each one prays concerning the suffering of his soul, of his distance from Hashem Yisburach. For even the holy angel which receives the Israelite's prayer and fastens from them crowns for his Maker, doesn't know where to raise this awesome crown, he just swears it that it should ascend on its own accord, and sit on the head of its Maker, as our Rabbis o.b.m. said (Zohar, Exodus 58a; Chagiga 13b, and see there Tosfos entitled “And fastens”). And therefore in the final redemption it says (Jeremiah 31:9), “with crying they will come, and with entreaty I will bring them.” For this exile is in the aspect of (Lamentations 1:9), “And she descended astonishingly,” the aspect of the domineering of the fiftieth gate of impurity. Therefore the main complete redemption of the future is just through prayer, which is also of the aspect of the fiftieth gate, as mentioned above. (Likutay Halachos, Laws of One Who Makes a Messenger to Collect a Debt, law 3).