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Book Title Tzava'at Harivash
By Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov; translated and annotated by J. Immanuel Schochet
Published and copyrighted by Kehot Publication Society
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When praying, advance in gradual stages. 1 Do not exhaust all your strength at the beginning of prayer. 2 Commence with composure and in the midst of prayer attach yourself with great deveikut. Thus you will even be able to recite the words of the prayer expeditiously. 3

Though unable to pray with deveikut at the outset of prayer, recite the words with great kavanah (devotion). Strengthen yourself bit by bit until [God] will help you to pray with intense deveikut. 4

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FOOTNOTES
1. On the gradual ascent in prayer, see below, sect. 58, 135, and 143.
2. See below, sect. 38.
3. See below, sect. 36.
4. See below, sect. 72, 85 and 86. Cf. also sect. 60.

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Tzava'at Harivash - The Testament of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov
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