Know and remember well these things — for we have already spoken much and even so it is forbidden for them to seem old. And indeed I myself know — that from my earliest days until today — almost never was there a time when all that passes over you did not also pass over me — and each time it seemed to me that there was almost no hope — G-d forbid — were it not that Hashem helped me each day through His wondrous ways — that He preceded to revive us through the seven restorers of taste [בְּשִׁבְעָה מְשִׁיבֵי טַעַם — a specific Breslov teaching: Likutay Moharan I:54 — the seven spiritual sources of renewal and sweetening that restore vitality and meaning when they have been lost. The phrase hikdim — He preceded — echoes the principle of refuah kodem la'makah (Letter 93): Hashem provides the cure before the wound, the shiva m'shivei ta'am before the bitterness arrives, so that one is never without a source of revival. The seven restorations are rooted in the seven divine attributes; they are the structural provision against spiritual dissolution] [Likutay Moharan I:54] — through the flowing stream that is the source of wisdom [עַל יְדֵי הַנַּחַל נוֹבֵעַ מְקוֹר חָכְמָה — Mishlai 18:4: mayim amukkim devarim b'lev ish, v'nachal novea m'kor chochmah — "deep waters are the words in a person's heart — and a flowing stream is the source of wisdom." This verse is the literary and spiritual source of the Rebbe's name: Nachal Novea — the flowing stream — echoing Nachman. The Rebbe is identified with the flowing stream of Mishlai: the inexhaustible, life-giving source of wisdom that revives those who drink from it. Reb Nussun thus identifies the Rebbe himself as the agent of the shiva m'shivei ta'am — through the Rebbe's teachings, the seven restorations reach us] and so forth.

And the time of Minchah has arrived — and the messenger has also now come to my home — and the day is passing and going. And so the heart bids farewell to the spring — and the spring to the heart — with such songs and praises — and when the day finishes — the heart would — G-d forbid — depart. Meanwhile the great man arrives — the true man of kindness — and gives the heart a day as a gift [אוּן סֶע גִּיזֶעגִינְט זִיךְ דָאס הַארְץ מִיט דֶעם קְוַואל... דֶּעַר אֶמֶתֶּעַר אִישׁ חֶסֶד שֵׁיינְקְט אַ טָאג דֶּעם הַארְץ — Yiddish: the heart and the spring (kvall) bid farewell with songs and praises. When the day ends the heart would be extinguished — but the great man arrives — the true ish chesed, the Rebbe — and gifts the heart another day. The manuscript provides the Hebrew translation in brackets confirming the content] — so that happy are the ears that hear such things — even today — and there was very great joy there — and so we too are certainly required to rejoice through this — even in the mud — in body and spirit. Even so — amidst such mire and thick mud [רֶפֶשׁ וְטִיט הַיָּוֵן — Tehillim 40:3: "He drew me up from the roaring pit, from the thick mud." Even in the heaviest, most sinking mire — Hashem draws one up] — and such depths of sea that have spread now in the world because of our many sins — in the footsteps of the Mashiach [בְּעִקְבוֹת מְשִׁיחָא — Sotah 49b: the generation immediately before the Messianic arrival, characterized by unprecedented spiritual decline] — we merited to hear such awesome wonders — wonders of wonders. And if we were to say wonders of wonders ten thousand times — it would not suffice for a single word of this awesome matter the like of which has never been heard in the world. And still — how fortunate are we, how fortunate are we.

To: My beloved son, my dear one. [Yitzchok] He will receive this letter from me — together with the one I prepared on Wednesday. And what shall I add to write you after I have already written much

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Nussun of Breslov.