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Concerning prayer: sometimes a person has no enthusiasm whatsoever in prayer, and one must create for oneself enthusiasm and warmth and a burning heart toward prayer. Just as it is found sometimes that a person creates for himself anger until he actually becomes angry and enraged — as the world says in German: "Er schnitzet sich ein Zorn" [he carves himself an anger] (139). Precisely so in holiness — one creates for oneself enthusiasm and burning — then actual burning comes. And he also said words like these: sometimes when a person wishes to pray or to do any other service of Hashem and he has no enthusiasm, he should pretend to himself that he does have enthusiasm, and through this he arrives at actual enthusiasm. For through the external, the internal is aroused (140). 139. RAK: Chayai Moharan 70. 140. RAK: Likutay Moharan 282.