DOV BAER OF MEZHIRECH You Must Forget Yourself in Prayer You must forget yourself in prayer. Think of yourself as nothing and pray only for the sake of God. In such prayer you may come to transcend time, entering the highest realms of the World of Thought. There all things are as one; Distinctions between “life” and “death,” “land” and “sea,” have lost their meaning. But none of this can happen as long as you remain attached to the reality of the material world. Here you are bound to the distinctions between good and evil that emerge only in the lower realms of God. How can one who remains
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