Prayer Before Study

Prayer before study

In every time and place, enable me to understand the hidden messages that You
 constantly send me in order to draw me close to You in truth. For in Your great kindness,
You have constricted Your Godliness from the first point of Creation, the beginning point 
of the World of Emanation (Atzilut) to the center point of this physical World of Action
(Asiyah) — from the Infinite to the finite. Through this constriction, You send hidden 
messages to each person, in every situation, to bring him or her closer to Your service, in 
accordance with the place, the time and the individual.

Open my mind, that I may 
understand clearly these hidden messages. Thus I will return to You in truth; now and 
forever I will fulfill Your will.

Teach me and guide me, in Your great kindness and awesome power, that I may attain
 the higher levels of consciousness necessary to understand these hidden messages. At the
 same time, grant me the wisdom to constrain this higher consciousness, that it never 
exceed its proper bounds.

Let me not inquire into the mysteries that are above my ability to understand or search
 out what must remain hidden to me.

Help me to contemplate only that which lies within
 my limits; may I increase my wisdom in a modest, measured way, according to my 
spiritual level.

In this way I will recognize and understand, at all times and at every
 moment, all the hidden messages that You weave into the fabric of my experiences.

For 
through all the thoughts, words and actions that You constantly send my way, Your 
intention is only to teach me how to attach myself to You in truth.

Likutey Tefilot Reb Noson’s Prayers I:655-656