Reb Shlomo z'l When do we find ourselves really praying? When we know we are doing right, we are not praying over it so much. When do we really pray? When we are not so sure if what we are up to is right. Maybe when we even think we are doing wrong. Now, there is such a thing as serving G-d like a son, or serving G-d like a servant. A servant is afraid to do wrong, because if he does wrong, he will be thrown out. But on the other hand, a servant is in a certain way closer, because all he knows is that he wants to do what the master wants him to do, he just doesn't always know how to do it. So the Ishbitser says like this: when the son will become a servant also, that is really the best kind of a prince. You see, if a prince is only a son, he might be a sweet little prince, but he'll never end up being a good king. Who is a cinsdered to be a real good king in training? He who is both a little prince, and also a strong servant. By the old Lubavitcher Rebbe's father, he says I was not only a son to my father, I was my father's Hasid. We saw it in the history of the Hassidim. All the Chassidishe Rebbes who had children, if the children were just their children, they never make it as be Rebbes. They never became great masters. Those who had children who were good children, and also real followers, really servants of their fathers, they became the big Rebbes.
