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To the honor of the President of Israel — my heart and my flesh — Mr. Z. Shazar

To the honor of the President of Israel — my heart and my flesh — Mr. Z. Shazar, who strives and digs to reveal the living waters that give life to dead bodies such as ourselves today in these generations — having descended to the ultimate ultimate descent. And they will be revealed in their wholeness in the future through the King Moshiach, who — through the greatness of the immensity of his righteousness and his awesome wisdom — will reveal and make known to the entire world the secret of the awesomeness of the true Tzadik. And through him the world will be repaired. Blessing and life and peace.

It is upon us to exult and to rejoice, to sing and to jubilate, to give thanks and to praise and to glorify the Master of the Universe — on the day of Independence, the day of miracles and great and awesome wonders that Hashem performed with us. Let us rejoice and be glad in it, every year and every year, and every day and every hour. And over the miracles and the salvations and the awesome heroic deeds that He performs with us before the eyes of all the nations — from the time that we merited through the salvation of Hashem to conquer our portion and our inheritance from the hands of the wild robbers. And especially — what his honored lofty self feels and knows and sees every time — the revealed miracles above the natural order, though for now they are still covered and clothed in the natural way. May the Merciful One complete our redemption — a complete redemption — and restore to us the Temple, the house of our life, the house of our glory, speedily in our days. Amen. And all the nations will marvel and say: Hashem has done great things with the Jews — the holy nation, the chosen people, in the chosen land. My love and my heart and my soul are utterly faithful to you — and my eyes stream tears in my prayer and my supplication before Hashem — that He grant you success on this path that you are walking. In every country and every country, and in every place and every place where you go and where the sole of your foot treads — may Hashem grant you grace and good sense in the eyes of all the nations and ministers — for the benefit of our people and our land. For this alone is the essential aim and will and intention of your traveling and your going and your toiling and your hard labor. May Hashem guard your going out and your coming in — for life and for joy and for peace, forever.

Before you set your steps to go on your journey — do not forget to take with you the treasury and the good gift that Hashem gave you through His abundant mercies — which is the small and old book: the Kitzur Likutay Moharan from the year 5595. As is your good custom always. It will certainly protect you on the way and draw down and illuminate upon you the light of the holiness of the faith in His unity and His singularity Yisburach, and in His particular Providence — for all of this is included in every single word written there.

Fortunate are we — fortunate is our pleasant portion — that we have merited to know somewhat of the greatness of the true Tzadik. He will comfort us from the anguish of our deeds. He is our vitality, he is our consolation and our hope. Fortunate are we, fortunate are we a thousandfold — for every word that we merit to receive from him. Your faithful servant and lover, who serves you always with all his heart and soul — and awaits and longs for when the time will come that I merit to see you every time in abundant joys, and to give you good and eternal gifts hidden in the treasury of the Nachal Noavaya. Yisroel son of Odesser

Israel Dov Odesser