How can one ask for personal needs and crown a king (total submission) at the same time?

Likutei Sichos – Vol 19 p 291 ff The presumed state of every Jew during the 10 days of Teshuva is on the level of the 13 attributes of mercy (“higher than Hishtalshelus” i.e. reason).

Likutei Sichos – Vol 19 p 291 ff Eli the Priest construes Chana’s intense prayer as some kind of drunkenness.

Likutei Sichos – Vol 19 p 291 ff

Likutei Sichos Vol 19 p 291 ff The story of Chana isn’t read only because the story happened on Rosh Hashana but because it teaches us an Avoda lesson for this day.

Three levels of understanding the (need for) the Makkos: 1) To get Yidden out of Egypt. That would not happen until Egypt got to know Hashem, this is the reason Hashem needed to punish Egypt. 2) To educate Egypt about Hashem for Egypt’s sake. 3) To give Yidden a deeper understanding of Hashem, as (after…

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (087) Likutei Sichos – Vol 36 pp 33 ff Introduction: The Makkos were needed to get Yidden out of Egypt but they had deeper purposes as well.

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (091) In contrast to the convention that there are two successive stages to the Pharaoh’s stubbornness; one where he is stubborn on his own and another where Hashem makes him stubborn. The Rebbe proves that: 1) The two levels of the Pharaoh’s stubbornness are simultaneous and last for the duration of…

Vaeira Exile and Redemption (084) Moshe complains (and he is right). But Hashem explains that the only way to get הוי’ה on the level above all constraints.

The frogs represent an in between state: creations that are neither helpful nor harmful, that are philosophically worse than both extremes. Like an in between level of faith. They too declared אחדות השם.