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With the help of G-d, may He be blessed.

The copyist states: the specific date and day were missing from the source — and what I found I have copied.

Naftali — may his light shine and radiate.

From my son Yitzchok, may he live, I have still received no letter at all — and I await hearing good from him. Apart from this there is nothing new to report.

[Hebrew: נָתָן הַנַּ"ל...]

I will also inform you of news from now. that there is a G-d Who rules in the earth, in the heavens above and on the earth below — He lives forever and endures for eternity, may His Name be praised forever. And silver and gold — it is all And even though most of the world are citizens of the country of wealth — who mock conversations such as these (see Sipuray Maasiyos, Story 12) — the choice is in their hands to bend their shoulders to the yoke of Gehinnom in this world, as they have chosen for themselves — apart from what will be on the Day of And in the end they will return to us, but we will not return to them. And King David, peace be upon him, has already said [Tehillim 49]: Fear not when a man grows rich — and so forth. they mock even this — let their mouths be filled with gravel. who trusts in his wealth is a broken reed to lean upon. These with chariots and these with horses — but we, in the Name of Hashem our G-d, we call out [Tehillim 20:8]. For there is no refuge from the afflictions of the world — which fill every house — except to Hashem Yisborach and to the Torah alone. already extended our conversation on this at great length — and still we must return and speak of it every single day. And the principle is that [Iyov 5:7]:

Man is born to toil — happy is the one whose toil is in Torah. And what you wrote — fort hop (only joy — in Yiddish) — is truth and righteousness, established and correct and enduring. Happy are you if you hold fast to this.