{
  "bookId": "alim-litrufa",
  "part": "2",
  "torah": "113",
  "title": "קיג",
  "hebrewTitle": "קיג",
  "sourceUrl": "/reader/alim-litrufa/2/113",
  "plainUrl": "/reader-plain/alim-litrufa/2/113/",
  "segments": [
    {
      "index": 1,
      "he": "קיג\nבָּרוּךְ הַשֵּׁם, יוֹם ד' עֵקֶב תקצ\"ג.\nאֲהוּבִי בְּנִי חֲבִיבִי שֶׁיִּחְיֶה.\nמִכְתָּבְךָ קִבַּלְתִּי, וְהָיָה לִי לְנַחַת גָּדוֹל, בְּשָׁמְעִי קְצָת צְמִיחַת יְשׁוּעָתְךָ, כֵּן יוֹסִיף ה' חַסְדּוֹ לִגְמֹר יְשׁוּעָתְךָ בִּשְׁלֵמוּת, בְּאֹפֶן שֶׁתִּזְכֶּה לְהַגִּיעַ מְהֵרָה לְתַכְלִית אֲמִתִּי וְנִצְחִי, שֶׁתְּבַלֶּה יָמֶיךָ בְּטוֹב אֲמִתִּי בְּתוֹרָה וּתְפִלָּה וּמַעֲשִׂים טוֹבִים, לְאֹרֶךְ יָמִים וְשָׁנִים טוֹבִים, וְאֵין לִי פְּנַאי לְהַאֲרִיךְ וְדַי בָּזֶה כָּעֵת.\nדִּבְרֵי אָבִיךָ הַדּוֹרֵשׁ שְׁלוֹמְךָ בְּאַהֲבָה וּמַעְתִּיר בַּעַדְכֶם.\nנָתָן מִבְּרֶסְלֶב",
      "en": "To: My beloved son, my dear one — may he live. [Yitzchok]\n\nYour letter I received — and it was to me a great comfort — upon hearing\n something of\n the budding of your salvation\n [צְמִיחַת יְשׁוּעָתְךָ — the same budding-image from\n Letter 106's tzmichas keren yeshuah for the Kloyz, now applied\n personally: the first visible sprouting of Yitzchok's improvement. The bud\n is always the sign of what is coming].\n May Hashem add His kindness — to complete your salvation\n fully\n [כֵּן יוֹסִיף ה' חַסְדּוֹ לִגְמֹר יְשׁוּעָתְךָ\n בִּשְׁלֵמוּת — the prayer-formula of completion: what has been begun in\n kindness should be completed in kindness. The yisaif echoes the\n Haggadah's yisaif v'lo yigra — may He add and not diminish. A\n Hebrew idiom of ongoing divine generosity]\n — in a way that you merit to reach a true and eternal ultimate good speedily —\n that you\n exhaust your days in true goodness\n [שֶׁתְּבַלֶּה יָמֶיךָ בְּטוֹב אֲמִתִּי — the word\n t'valeh — to exhaust, to wear out entirely — carries the precise\n Talmudic aspiration of valey yomoi b'Torah: that one's days should\n be spent and worn out entirely in Torah. Not merely to allocate time to\n goodness but to exhaust the days in it — to leave nothing unused, nothing\n unspent. The ideal is the complete consumption of one's days in true goodness\n — in Torah, prayer, and good deeds — so that when the days are done, they\n are genuinely spent]\n — in Torah and prayer and good deeds — for\n length of days and good years\n [לְאֹרֶךְ יָמִים וְשָׁנִים טוֹבִים — from D'vorim\n 22:7 (l'ma'an yitav lecha v'ha'arachta yamim — \"that it may be well\n with you and that you may have length of days\") and the Rosh Hashana greeting.\n Not merely long life — but years that are genuinely good, exhausted in Torah\n and good deeds].\n And I have no time to extend — and this suffices for now.\n\n The words of your father — who seeks your welfare with love and intercedes\n on your behalf.\n\nNussun of Breslov.\n\n[Translator's Note: Overview: Parshas Eikev, Wednesday — pure joy in a brief\n form. *Tzmichas yeshuasecha* — the budding image from Letter 106 applied\n personally. *Yisaif Hashem chasdo ligmor yeshuascha bish'leimus*. *T'valeh\n yamecha*: now identified as the Talmudic ideal of *valey yomoi b'Torah* —\n the complete exhaustion of one's days in true goodness, leaving nothing\n unspent. *L'orech yamim v'shanim tovim*.\n \n Key Themes\n\n Tzmichas Yeshuasecha\n The budding of salvation — the first visible sprouting of Yitzchok's\n renewal. The bud is always the sign of imminent full growth.]"
    }
  ]
}