Letter 112

[This letter opens mid-sentence in the source text.]

…Who girded his loins — to plunge himself into the sea of wisdom of the Tzadik — the truly wise one — who is the father of all the wise ones and the prophets… of the Tzadik — the truly wise one — the great and awesome wonder — the like of which has never been heard and never been seen from one end of the world to the other. Who returns all kinds of evil to good — and transforms utter wicked ones to complete Tzadikim. And the world becomes settled and filled with people of true wisdom and knowledge — to know and to recognize Hashem… who has come into the world to redeem Israel — for the essential redemption depends upon this… whom Hashem has sent to redeem us.

Fortunate are you — that you remember the loftiness of your precious soul — to have compassion upon it and to shelter under his wings! And I had pleasure and delight from the blaze of your yearning and your powerful love toward the Tzadik. Through which the darkness and the senselessness of the heresy and the false faiths is pushed away and nullified — through the blaze of your powerful love, etc., etc.…