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My beloved son — my dear one.

I received your letter today and was very pleased. Just now I am standing in the middle of prayer — before *U'va l'Tziyon* [קֹדֶם וּבָא לְצִיּוֹן — "before *U'va l'Tziyon*" — a section near the end of the morning *Shacharis* prayer. Reb Nussun has literally paused mid-prayer to write these lines — the urgency of communication overcoming even the constraint of the prayer service] — and it is impossible to extend. The bearer of this letter is your brother-in-law — my dear friend Rabbi Yosef — may his light shine — who will tell you everything face to face. And in all likelihood you have already received the letter that I sent yesterday to you along with the letter to the rabbi of Savran [הָרַב מִסַּאוְורַאן — the rabbi of Savran — a town in Podolia. Reb Nussun has written a letter to this rabbi as part of an effort to find intermediaries who might help quench the *machloket*] and so forth — for I commanded that a special man be sent to you for this. Just now Rabbi Shmuel Weinberg is here with all the wedding party of his brother — and I need to speak with them too — and I have no leisure at all. Only this: consult well with your brother-in-law and with our true friends — perhaps you can find a man to speak with him — perhaps some salvation will sprout that the fire will be quenched [אוּלַי יִצְמַח אֵיזֶה יְשׁוּעָה שֶׁתִּשְׁקַע הָאֵשׁ — perhaps some salvation will sprout — *yitzmach* — that the fire will be quenched — *tishka ha'eish*. The *machloket* is described as a fire — and the hope is that through human intermediaries and through divine kindness it can be quenched. The language of organic growth: *yitzmach* — will sprout — as if salvation is a seed waiting to germinate] — and may He who makes peace in His heights — make peace upon us [Iyov 25:2; Kaddish] and so forth.

And since — according to his words — such a person is not to be found there — I therefore reconsidered and returned my feet to Your testimonies [Tehillim 119:59] — to rely on Hashem Yisborach alone — and to sit and not act — for it is not at all my wish that you yourself deliver the letter — and this never entered my mind at all. Even so — I am returning to you the copy in my son Rabbi Shachna's handwriting — may he live — that it should be with you — perhaps perhaps it will be needed for you — and perhaps even so a person will be found there who will direct his heart to Heaven to involve himself in this — to diminish the *machloket* — and may the Good Hashem do. More than this there is no leisure to extend — and the bearer of this letter — Rabbi Nachman of Tulchin — will tell you face to face everything. And praised be G-d — Hashem is with us and expands greatly for us within our distresses in His kindness — Yisborach — and a little of the sufferings and the expansions Rabbi Nachman of Tulchin — the bearer of this letter — will tell you. And I trusted in Hashem — for the attribute of good is abundant [Sotah 11a] — and certainly everything is for great good. And we need to strengthen ourselves and renew ourselves every day — to walk in His holy ways — to give ourselves life through the wonders of His kindnesses — Yisborach — that we merited to escape from being among those who oppose the point of truth — and in this alone we can live and rejoice even now — until Hashem expands for us in fullness — and we merit to come out from all our distresses entirely — and everything will turn to great good — to joy and to gladness — quickly.

The words of your father who intercedes for you. Nussun of Breslov.

[Hebrew: נָתָן מִבְּרֶסְלֶב...]