Editing Deveikut (Spiritual Attachment) (section)

== Deveikut During Prayer ==
Deveikut occurs during the recitation of the Shema, according to the Alter Rebbe's explanation that "nothing prevents us from attachment of the soul to His unity and blessed light except will, if a person does not want at all, God forbid, to attach to Him. But immediately when one wants and accepts and draws upon oneself His blessed divinity and says 'The Lord our God, the Lord is One,' his soul is automatically included in His blessed unity, for 'spirit brings spirit and draws spirit,' and this is the aspect of the exodus from Egypt and therefore they established the passage of the exodus from Egypt specifically at the time of the recitation of the Shema."

While in the Amidah prayer the Deveikut is only from the pleasure in the divine soul, something that passes and weakens with the weakening of pleasure, the Deveikut in Nefilat Apayim (falling on the face) is absolute attachment, coming from the elevation of all powers in the natural soul with the divine soul, and therefore the physical body no longer interferes with the attachment since it too has been elevated.

This is the reason that it is said in Kabbalistic texts that the time of Nefilat Apayim is the main time for clarifying and elevating the evil of Kelipat Nogah in one's body.

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