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After he came from Lemberg and lived two more years, he would speak much every time about faith. And we understood from his words that all his speech — whatever he spoke — his entire intention was to implant our true faith in the heart of every single person of Israel. And he would often mention the great overwhelming wonders of the good that Moshe our teacher, peace be upon him, did for us — that he gave us the Torah and opened it with (Bereishis 1:1): "In the beginning G-d created the heaven and the earth," and revealed to us the holy faith without any wisdoms or philosophical investigations. And he greatly censured the books of the investigators and philosophers and mocked them in many forms of mockery. And he made it clear before our eyes that they know nothing. And he spoke at great length in such discourses in many, many kinds of language of true and wondrous wisdom — every single word being sweeter than honey and honeycomb and entering the depth of every heart. And we have already written many of them, as some have already been printed. But still not even a thousandth part of them has been written. And it is impossible to describe the form of the holy and awesome, pleasant and sweet words that issued from his holy mouth in holiness and purity, in awe and reverence, in trembling and shaking — for they had every form of charm in the world, as anyone who merited to speak with him will testify and attest — even in mere worldly matters. And as is understood from his words at the end, in those two years that he lived after coming from Lemberg — that all his words, whether in worldly matters or in words of Torah, all of them entirely were in order to implant faith in the world, which is the foundation of the entire Torah and all the mitzvos. As it is written (Psalms 119:86): "All Your commandments are faith."