[Among the daily mitzvot, the lessons] deal with tzitzit, tefilin, reciting the Shema and prayer, charity and Torah study, engaging in business honestly, faith in God and faith in the Sages, humility, fear and love, the great value of holy desire and longing. [Rebbe Nachman also discusses the great value] of praying with enthusiasm and concentration, whether it be the three daily prayers or the other, very valuable supplementary prayers, supplications and requests which we must recite each and every day and in abundance. He pays particular attention to the special value of hitbodedut—daily expressing oneself before the Holy One, in the language one normally speaks, pouring one’s heart out like water to God that He should make one worthy of coming closer to His service; the importance of reciting the Psalms, through which one succeeds in repenting; the value of crying before the Holy One like a son begging his father for forgiveness.

(63) And Isaac went out walking in the field toward evening and, looking up, he saw camels approaching.

Know! when a person prays in the fields, all the flora enters into the prayer, helping him and strengthening his prayer. This is the reason prayer is called SiChah (conversation), the concept of “SiaCh (shrub) of the field” (Genesis 2:5). All the shrubs of the field empower and assist his prayer.

This is the concept of “And Yitzchak went out laSuaCh (to converse) in the field” (ibid. 24:63)—his prayer was with the help and power of the field. All the flora of the field empowered and assisted his prayer, on account of which prayer is called SiChah.