Rabeinu teaches that the essential thing is Faith! A person needs to search for faith within himself and to reinforce himself with faith!
Now there are astounding afflictions and sicknesses that a person suffers with only because a fall in faith. Not even ancestral merit, prayer, or medicine is effective in healing this person. Not even a sigh or groan! The only thing a person can do to heal himself from these afflictions is to repair faith. How? To dig and to find the water from which faith grows… and what is that water? The counsels and advice in one’s heart.
To reveal and draw out those waters requires a man of understanding- a man who has a Neshama which is completely refined!
Rabeinu also discusses how fallen faith leads to a rise in superstitions and false faiths, idol worship etc… and how elevating fallen faith creates converts…
Rabeinu also discusses the connection between pride and sexual immorality.
We learn about the guardians of the generation, upright words/speech, holy dreams mediated by an angel, how food plays a role in dreams, the joy of the tefillin, subduing the demons, how to strengthen the holy angel, false rabbis and judges, crooked judgement, assembling the chariot, the different blows of the Shofar, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, thé connection between a true Rebbe and his students, rectifying the mind, throwing away one’s wisdoms, serving G-d with the ultimate simplicity, how to attain the understanding that even Moshe Rabeinu couldn’t attain, the lungs, the mysteries of the Torah, etc…
Rabeinu connects all these subjects we mentioned above in the most awesome fashion!
Bless G-d that we merited to study such a lesson!