The world is a lie. At the point we occupy in the grand story of things, the world lies that it is a beast with no master. It is the ultimate lie because it conceals the highest truth: That there is nothing else but G‑d. The vital root of this lie, its lifeline and key to existence, is embedded within the innermost domain of your life: Your time for learning Torah, for prayer, and for contemplating G‑d’s wonders. From those crucial moments, it siphons out all its vitality with a simple, disruptive strategy: At that time, when you are engaged in the purpose for which you and the entire world were created, the lie leaps to the...