164- What to Ask of the Creator—to Be His Servant

When a person sees that he has disturbances in his work of the Creator and he wants to pray to the Creator to have the strength to work, what should he ask?

There are two options:

1) That the Creator will take away from him the disturbances. As a result, he will not need to make great efforts in order to walk in the ways of the Creator.

2) For the Creator to give him a greater taste for the Torah and prayer and good deeds, and by this the disturbances will not be able to detain him because when Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] are important, disturbances cannot rule.

For example, a person cannot say that he has many disturbances so he cannot save his life. That is, it is not true if he argued that because his relatives or his environment are disturbing him, he is unable to save his life. Rather, of course, a person will give all that he has for his life, and all the obstacles do not matter to him.

Therefore, he asks the Creator to give him the taste of life in Torah and Mitzvot, and against life, one cannot say that he has disturbances because the importance of life does not let him relate to the disturbances.