Chasidut sur L’Exode 22:22

The Noam Elimelech, parshas Vayishlach, comments on the verse, “and I stayed there until now,”⁹⁰Bereshis, 32:5 by saying, ‘I spent a long time doing this avodah, day after day, year after year. This is as I had said, and I had already entreated Hashem, and He heard my voice. This is in order to show that am man has to cry out for such a long time, ‘please God, help me to serve You in truth,’ and then God hears his prayer. But it doesn’t happen after a few days.” Rav Aharon haGadol of Stolin addresses this matter in explaining the verse (Shemos, 22:22), “if he cries out to me, I will surely hear his cry,” “why does the verse repeat the language (for the doubles the word for crying, “tsaok yista’k – shall surely cry”)? It is to say, how many thousands of times you have to cry out on every matter in order not to be deceived. [Meaning, he should not think that if he truly cries, he then cries no more.] Every prayer needs to be repeated many times to reach the point when he is truly praying from the depth of his heart.”