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Overview: Sunday, Parshas Nitzavim-Vayeilech — Nemirov. To Yitzchok. Received his letter just now — nothing to reply. His nephew Rabbi Ayzik traveled today to his home — see to meet face to face with him — perhaps he will tell him what was spoken on the past Shabbas — for he heard several words of truth that they had not heard. Perhaps now you will receive from one another — through his telling it to you he too may be aroused. For after we speak such true wonders — it is still very hard to be truly affected by it — unless it is the salvation of Hashem. 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 — according to the deeds of the person — and according to the deed that is done on that very day — for His thoughts Yisborach are very deep. 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 — as the Rebbe was precise in the Torah "v'atem tih'yu li" (Likutay Moharan 34) — where he wrote these two words "ba'eis hazos" — that every person needs to connect his heart to the good point that belongs to his heart ba'eis hazos. For on Thursday the time of payment arrived — and this confusion of the mind was inevitably going to pass on Thursday Parshas Tavo upon you in Tultshin — and that day has already passed and gone — and there remains only what each person snatched — some good point from that day — according to the confusions and 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" — 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 — 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. Hashem will make our ways successful with true and eternal success — in this world and the coming world — forever.

[Hebrew: בְּנִי חֲבִיבִי....]

...And to write to him words of truth that flow from the flowing stream — the source of wisdom — the time does not agree just now — and also the parchment is short. And he has already spoken greatly — and more than this one must speak every day. And if it seems to you that you have no one with whom to speak — he has already proven him greatly in this — that one should look only at the good that is in every person — and then he will always have with whom to speak words of truth — from the good point in the heart — in the aspect of "u'm'kablin dein min dein" — receiving from one another. [וּמְקַבְּלִין דֵּין מִן דֵּין — Aramaic: from the Zohar — they receive from one another. The teaching: two people who each focus on the good point in the other — each draws forth the other's good — and both are thereby elevated. This is the ideal of true friendship in Breslov — not just mutual support — but a mutual illumination of each other's hidden good point] And also express your speech before Hashem Yisborach — to receive the good point from Him and through Him. And all these good points need to be received from the general good point — which is the words of our Master our Teacher and our Rebbe — of blessed memory — that you heard from my mouth and from his holy and awesome books. *"Hafoch bahem v'hafoch bahem"* — turn them over and turn them over — and so forth.

[Hebrew: דִּבְרֵי אָבִיךָ...]

[Hebrew: נָתָן מִבְּרֶסְלֶב...]

And see to gladden your soul greatly every day — in what you merited to know from the light of such truth — "ilmalei lo asinu l'olma ela l'mishma da" — "were it not that we came into the world only to hear this" [אִלְמָלֵא לָא אָתֵינָא לְעָלְמָא אֶלָּא לְמִשְׁמָע דָא — Aramaic: from Talmud Bavli (Megillah 16b) — the formula of ultimate valuation. Reb Nussun applies it to the three good points he mentions here — that flow from the Torah "v'atem tih'yu li — mamleces kohanim" (Likutay Moharan 34). To hear even one such teaching is sufficient justification for an entire lifetime in the world] — from the matter of the three good points he mentioned here — that flow from the holy Torah *"v'atem tih'yu li — mamleces kohanim"* [Likutay Moharan 34] — *dayeinu.* And so on every single word — all the more so on every Torah and Torah — and on every deed and deed — one must say this in truth — how it is — even so — *ashreinu.* And *"un taki"* — even so — *ashreinu!*

The words of your lover in truth forever. Nussun of Breslov. And to Hashem the salvation — that all will be well established in His *chesed* Yisborach — for the chasadim of Hashem have not ended and His mercies will never cease — and with this he gives himself life just now every day and every time and every hour — for he believes with complete faith in all this — that he wrote to him — for the chasadim are renewed every morning — as Rashi explained on the verse (Eichah 3): "chadashim labekarim rabbah emunasecha" — which is written after "chasdei Hashem ki lo samu" — and as he spoke greatly about this in the past winter — and still one must speak greatly about this — and go in this — to know and to believe every day that wondrous new *chasadim* are drawn down every day — through which Hashem Yisborach will complete according to His will and the will of the true *tzaddikim* — until we all return to Him Yisborach in truth — for all will turn to good. For great is Hashem and His greatness has no investigation. And the essential of His greatness Yisborach is the attribute of chesed — which is called gedullah [גְּדֻלָּה — the sefirah of Chessed — lovingkindness — in Kabbalistic terminology is also called Gedullah — greatness. Tikkune Zohar 67b. It follows that since Hashem's greatness has no investigation — and His greatness is His chesed — therefore His chesed also has no investigation — no limit — no end. This is an immense source of hope and strength] [Tikkune Zohar 67b] . It emerges that His chesed — which is His gedullah — has no investigation. And understand this well — and through this you will be able to strengthen yourself greatly and to rejoice always. And especially at the time of prayer — which requires strengthening more than any other time — that every time you stand to pray — remove completely from your mind all that has passed until now. Only trust in His great chesed — as it is written [Tehillim 13:6] : *"va'ani b'chasd'cha vatachti"* — "but I — in Your chesed I have trusted" — and so forth — and pray with joy and good heart. And it is impossible to extend more now. And abundant peace to all our anshei sh'lomaynu with great love. Section heading: Letters of the year 5598.