Letter 260

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…Who has implanted in his heart and his mind the splendor and the pleasantness and the sweetness and the pleasingness of the light of truth — the pure one. Through which one enters to Hashem Yisburach — and recognizes Him.

…The loftiest of all — the most supernal and exalted…

…Who has compassion upon the loftiness of his delicate soul — that has been hewn and drawn from a holy and most lofty and exalted place. To adorn it and to beautify it and to polish it with the most supernal and lofty and very exalted lustrous brilliance. And has set ablaze his heart with great passion like a blazing flame — to bind and to cleave himself to the true Tzadik — through whom the redemption will come to Israel and to the entire world. (Fortunate is your portion in this world and the next!…) And were it not for the dispute and the persecutions — and in which the essential redemption depends…

The essential exile is falsehood and dispute. And the essential… and in which the essential redemption depends… The essential exile is falsehood and dispute (that comes from falsehood and dispute). And the essential redemption depends upon truth and peace.