רמט

And abundant peace to all our anshei sh'lomaynu with great love.

My beloved son — my dear one.

I received your letter just now. And there is nothing to reply to him. My nephew Rabbi Ayzik traveled today to his home — and you should see to meet face to face with him — perhaps he will tell you what was spoken on the past Shabbas. For praised be G-d he heard several words of truth that you had not heard. And perhaps now you will receive from one another — for it may be that through his telling it to you — he too will be aroused. For he already knows that after we speak such true wonders — it is still very hard to be truly affected by it — unless it is the salvation of Hashem.

[Hebrew: נָתָן מִבְּרֶסְלֶב...]

And for this very reason one must speak greatly — both one person to his fellow — and especially with his true rebbe — and between himself and himself — to search and to seek and to penetrate — to bring to light the concealments and the hiddenness of the good point that hides in a person every day in deep concealments [נְקֻדָּה טוֹבָה — the good point — a central concept in Breslov. Every person — no matter how far he has fallen — has within him a hidden good point. The Rebbe's teaching in Likutay Moharan II:112 — "Azamra" — is that through finding and strengthening that good point one can praise Hashem and draw oneself back to life. The search for that point is itself the spiritual work] — according to the deeds of the person — and according to the deed that is done on that very day — from the highest of levels down to and so forth — for His thoughts Yisborach are very deep. And we are obligated to strengthen ourselves to inquire and to seek and to penetrate — to search and to connect ourselves to the good point that belongs to the heart — "ba'eis hazos" — at this time [בָּעֵת הַזֹּאת — at this time — two words that the Rebbe was precise about in the Torah "v'atem tih'yu li" (Likutay Moharan 34) — that each person must connect his heart to the good point that belongs to his heart ba'eis hazos — specifically at this present moment — not at some abstract time — but now — in the particular circumstances of this exact moment] — as we spoke greatly about this — in what our Rebbe — of blessed memory — was precise in the Torah "v'atem tih'yu li" [Likutay Moharan 34] — where he wrote these two words "ba'eis hazos" — at this time — that every person needs to connect his heart to the good point that belongs to his heart — ba'eis hazos — at this time.

Nussun of Breslov. For on Thursday the time of payment arrived for ha'pm — and this confusion of the mind was inevitably going to pass on Thursday Parshas Tavo 5597 upon you in Tultshin — and that day has already passed and gone on its way — and there remains only what each person snatched — some good point from that day — according to the confusions and the obstacles that passed then over each and every one of the people of the world. The truth is — if we pay attention to this — the hair of our flesh will stand on end. Even so — the truth is so — and one must only give oneself life through the holy learning of "azamra lelokai b'odi" [אֲזַמְּרָה לֵאלֹקַי בְּעוֹדִי — "I will sing to my G-d while I yet live" — Tehillim 146:2. This is the signature teaching of Likutay Moharan II:112 — that through finding even one good point within oneself and singing praise to Hashem for that — one can lift oneself from even the deepest depths] — in order to have the strength to search and to seek specifically through this daika. And over all of this — what we are preparing in our thought to be on Rosh Hashanah in the holy place of his holy burial [בִּמְקוֹם קֹדֶשׁ גְּנִיזָתוֹ הַקְּדוֹשָׁה — in the holy place of his holy burial — Uman — the burial place of Rebbe Nachman. Reb Nussun here refers to the central pillar of Breslov practice — the pilgrimage to Uman for Rosh Hashanah at the grave of the Rebbe. The Rebbe himself made the promise that whoever comes to his grave on Rosh Hashanah — he will go to great lengths to help them] — this is our comfort in our poverty — and through this will our heart exult and rejoice. For there is still hope to attain the paths of life from now on — at any rate. And Hashem will make our ways successful with true and eternal success — in this world and the coming world — forever. The words of your father. The words of your father.