קצז

And abundant peace to all our *anshei sh'lomaynu* with great love and precious affection. Be strong and let your hearts be courageous — all who hope in Hashem [Tehillim 31:25]. It is a time of trouble for Yaakov — and from it he will be saved — SPECIFICALLY FROM IT [עֵת צָרָה הִיא לְיַעֲקֹב וּמִמֶּנָּהּ יִוָּשֵׁעַ — Yirmiyahu 30:7: eis tzarah hi l'Yaakov u'mimennah yivvashe'a — "it is a time of trouble for Yaakov — but from it he will be saved." The Rebbe's teaching: *mimennah daika* — SPECIFICALLY from the distress itself — not despite it but through it — the distress itself is the vehicle of the salvation. This is one of the Rebbe's most characteristic teachings on suffering and redemption] [Yirmiyahu 30:7] — through the distress itself will come to us a great salvation — and the distress will turn into great expansiveness — in His wondrous kindness — through the great power of the holy elder. And praised be G-d — we have One to rely on — and there is hope for our future — in this world and the next forever.

[Hebrew: אֲהוּבִי בְּנִי חֲבִיבִי....]

My beloved son — my dear one.

I received your letter on Sunday together with the sum of eighteen gold coins — and they were a comfort to me when I heard from the abundance of your good welfare. And now see the wonders of Hashem — for specifically now — *daika atah* — when you traveled with such obstacles — it turned to peace — specifically [דַּיְקָא עַתָּה — precisely and specifically now: the Breslov emphasis on *daika* — the word that marks the paradox of divine providence. It was *specifically* in the moment of greatest obstruction that the breakthrough came. The obstacles themselves became the instrument of the peace] . See and understand the ways of Hashem — for there is no obstacle whatsoever in the world — and when a person is strong in his mind and breaks all the obstacles — even if they press down upon him — the obstacles turn into salvations [הַמְּנִיעוֹת נִתְהַפְּכִין לִישׁוּעוֹת — one of the cornerstone teachings of the Rebbe: obstacles are not real impediments to the divine will — they are invitations to inner strengthening. The person who breaks through them does not merely overcome them — he transforms them into the very vehicles of his salvation] . Be strong — my son — and resolute. For it is fitting that you rejoice in this Shabbas — for you had a very great share — praise be to G-d — in all that happened this Shabbas for good.

May Hashem Yisborach strengthen your heart and the heart of all our *anshei sh'lomaynu* — to walk in the straight and true path — and may we merit to direct our mind at every time to choose for ourselves a truly straight path in truth — according to His will — Yisborach — and the will of those who fear Him — of blessed memory. And may we merit to fulfil: *nafalosa d'rachenu v'nachkarah v'nashuv* — let us search and examine our ways and return — *nissa l'vaveinu el kapayim* — let us lift our hearts to our hands [נַחְפְּשָׂה דְרָכֵינוּ וְנַחְקֹרָה וְנָשׁוּבָה וְכוּ' — Eichah 3:40–41: the call to self-examination and return during the season of the Churban. *Nissa l'vaveinu el kapayim* — "let us lift our hearts with our hands to Hashem in the heavens." These verses of Eichah are the call to the inner work of *teshuvah* during the Three Weeks] [Eichah 3:40–41] and so forth — in all that we spoke of this past Shabbas. May Hashem Yisborach grant us to merit to fulfil His will — Yisborach — and to act according to His will in truth always — all the days of our lives. Amen. The words of your father. Nussun of Breslov.