קיג

To: My beloved son, my dear one — may he live. [Yitzchok] Your letter I received — and it was to me a great comfort — upon hearing something of the budding of your salvation [צְמִיחַת יְשׁוּעָתְךָ — the same budding-image from Letter 106's tzmichas keren yeshuah for the Kloyz, now applied personally: the first visible sprouting of Yitzchok's improvement. The bud is always the sign of what is coming]. May Hashem add His kindness — to complete your salvation fully [כֵּן יוֹסִיף ה' חַסְדּוֹ לִגְמֹר יְשׁוּעָתְךָ בִּשְׁלֵמוּת — the prayer-formula of completion: what has been begun in kindness should be completed in kindness. The yisaif echoes the Haggadah's yisaif v'lo yigra — may He add and not diminish. A Hebrew idiom of ongoing divine generosity] — in a way that you merit to reach a true and eternal ultimate good speedily — that you exhaust your days in true goodness [שֶׁתְּבַלֶּה יָמֶיךָ בְּטוֹב אֲמִתִּי — the word t'valeh — to exhaust, to wear out entirely — carries the precise Talmudic aspiration of valey yomoi b'Torah: that one's days should be spent and worn out entirely in Torah. Not merely to allocate time to goodness but to exhaust the days in it — to leave nothing unused, nothing unspent. The ideal is the complete consumption of one's days in true goodness — in Torah, prayer, and good deeds — so that when the days are done, they are genuinely spent] — in Torah and prayer and good deeds — for length of days and good years [לְאֹרֶךְ יָמִים וְשָׁנִים טוֹבִים — from D'vorim 22:7 (l'ma'an yitav lecha v'ha'arachta yamim — "that it may be well with you and that you may have length of days") and the Rosh Hashana greeting. Not merely long life — but years that are genuinely good, exhausted in Torah and good deeds]. And I have no time to extend — and this suffices for now. The words of your father — who seeks your welfare with love and intercedes on your behalf. Nussun of Breslov. [Translator's Note: Overview: Parshas Eikev, Wednesday — pure joy in a brief form. *Tzmichas yeshuasecha* — the budding image from Letter 106 applied personally. *Yisaif Hashem chasdo ligmor yeshuascha bish'leimus*. *T'valeh yamecha*: now identified as the Talmudic ideal of *valey yomoi b'Torah* — the complete exhaustion of one's days in true goodness, leaving nothing unspent. *L'orech yamim v'shanim tovim*. Key Themes Tzmichas Yeshuasecha The budding of salvation — the first visible sprouting of Yitzchok's renewal. The bud is always the sign of imminent full growth.]