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To: My beloved son. [Yitzchok] At this hour I received your letter — but the letter which you sent yesterday

[Hebrew: אֲהוּבִי בְּנִי....]

has not reached my hand — and I do not know whom to ask about it.

And you did not do well in not mentioning in your letter through whom you sent it yesterday — and it distresses me — especially the letter from Petersburg. Inform me immediately through whom you sent it — and by implication it will reach my hand. And now I have nothing to write — for it is close since you were here — and I also wrote you a letter here on the past Sunday. And when I receive the letter you sent yesterday — I will see to reply to you further — if Hashem wills. And now — be strong and resolute — and rejoice and exult in His holy salvation — that we merited to draw water with joy from the wellsprings of salvation [לִשְׁאֹב מַיִם בְּשָׂשׂוֹן מִמַּעְיְנֵי הַיְשׁוּעָה — Yeshayahu 12:3: the great verse of the post-Messianic rejoicing: ush'avtem mayim b'sason mima'aynei hayeshuah — "and you shall draw water in joy

from the wellsprings of salvation." The prophecy of the day when Hashem's anger has turned — when the people will draw not from ordinary wells but from the *ma'aynei hayeshuah* — the wellsprings of salvation itself. Applied to the Rebbe's teachings: they are those very wellsprings — and the community of Breslov disciples has already begun to draw from them in joy. The verse is the basis of the Simchas Beis HaSho'evah — the Water-Drawing ceremony at Sukkos — connecting this to the season of ultimate joy] [Yeshayahu 12:3] — whose holy waters have not yet ceased — as we see with our senses that even now his holy words flow like a gushing spring — as you yourselves see

[Hebrew: נָתָן מִבְּרֶסְלֶב...]

with your own eyes at every time. May Hashem Yisborach give us all merit to fulfil his holy words at every time. The words of your father — who awaits salvation. Nussun of Breslov. [Translator's Note: Overview: Wednesday, Parshas Naso. A lost letter and a missing Petersburg letter. A second letter for Rabbi Chayyim of Lvov enclosed for forwarding to Kamenets. *U'sh'avtem mayim b'sason mima'aynei hayeshuah*: now identified as Yeshayahu 12:3 — the verse of the post-Messianic drawing from the wellsprings of salvation, the basis of the Simchas Beis HaSho'evah. The Rebbe's words are those very wellsprings — still flowing. *Hu hitchil hu yigmor* / *Hashem yigmor ba'adi* (Tehillim 138:8) — He who began will complete. Key Themes U'sh'avtem Mayim B'sason — Yeshayahu 12:3 "You shall draw water with joy from the wellsprings of salvation." The post-Messianic verse of Yeshayahu — the basis of Simchas Beis HaSho'evah. The Rebbe's teachings are those very wellsprings — and the Breslov community has already begun to draw from them in joy. Their waters have not ceased.]

[Hebrew: נָתָן הַנַּ"ל...]