Exercise 2: Ein Od Milvado (Nothing Besides Him)

 Happiness is the basis of everything! Emuna cannot exist while in a state of sadness. Happiness is becoming close to Hashem, while sadness is leaving Hashem. 

1. First, for 2 minutes, continue to ask Hashem to help you truly believe that He loves you an infinite love, no matter what you have done, even after the biggest sin – He still loves you, just like a father always loves his child no matter what. 

2. Then, for another 10 minutes, ask Hashem to give you perfect emuna, and specifically to believe "ein od milvado" – there is only Hashem. G-d alone did, does and will do everything.  

Do not blame your spouse, or your in-laws, or he who hurt me, or whoever. And do not even to blame yourself!  

Ask Hashem to enable you to truly believe not just that there is a Creator out there somewhere who created the world, but that Hashem is personally overseeing every single detail of your life – for your best. 

Remember this rule, and this is what you are praying to believe with your whole heart: No one can do good to me, or do bad to me, if it is not the will of Hashem – which automatically means that it's for the very best, even if I currently don't understand how. 

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