T96 (Tinyana) PNC - Even One Word, Repeated — The Power of a Single Dibbur in Hisbodedus

**Oid amar le-inyan hisbodedus, she-hayah darko zal le-zareiz me'oid ba-zeh** — Rabbeinu zal was *constantly urgent* about hisbodedus, *li-h'yos ragil me'oid be-hisbodedus, le-fareish sichaso lifnei HaShem yisbarach be-chol yom va-yom*. To be *habituated* in hisbodedus — to *pour out one's sichah* before HaShem *every single day*. **Ve-amar**: *she-afilu ke-she-ein yecholin le-dabber klal — afilu ke-she-medabrin rak dibbur echad — gam-kein toiv me'oid*. Even one word. **Ve-afilu im eino yachol le-dabber rak dibbur echad** — *yih'yeh chazak be-da'aso, ve-yedabber oisoi ha-dibbur kammah ve-chammah pe'amim, bli shi'ur va-erech*. **Ve-afilu im yevaleh kammah ve-chammah yamim ba-dibbur zeh le-vad — gam-zeh toiv.** Pages, days, weeks on the same one dibbur. *Ve-yih'yeh chazak ve-amitz, ve-yarbeh le-dabber oisoi ha-dibbur pe'amim ein mispar, ad she-yiracheim alav HaShem yisbarach, ve-yiftach piv, ve-yuchal le-fareish sichaso.* HaShem will, *be-rachmav*, finally open his mouth.

**Ve-amar she-ha-dibbur yesh lo koach gadol me'oid.** *Ki ha-loi yecholim li-lchosh al kneh-srefah she-loi tuchal liyrois* — they are able to *whisper on a rifle so it will not fire* (a known segulah of that era). **Ve-haveh.** And then Rabbeinu spoke at length on hisbodedus *be-sichah niflo'ah be-kammah minei leshoinois* — strengthening us *me'oid me'oid* in *hisbodedus ve-sichah beinoi le-vein konoi*. **Ve-amar she-retzoinoi she-yih'yeh lanu kol ha-yom kuloi hisbodedus** — *his rotzoin* was that we should spend *the entire day* in hisbodedus. *U-le-valois kol ha-yom al zeh.* Practical limit: *lav kol adam yachol le-kayem zois — al kein be-hekrei'ach le-tzavois la-hem she-yih'yeh la-hem al kol panim eizo sha'ah hisbodedus, ki gam zeh toiv me'oid*. **But for the one whose lev is strong in HaShem**, who wants to receive avoidaso be-emes — *retzoinoi she-yih'yeh lo kol ha-yom hisbodedus*. **Ve-hizkir az ma'amar Chazal** (Berachos 21a): **"halevai she-yispalleil adam kol ha-yom kuloi."** *If only* a person would daven *the entire day*.