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With the help of G-d, may He be blessed My beloved son, may his light shine and radiate.

My beloved son — your letter I received. And I was already

prepared today to travel — but the wagon driver deceived me: he hired out his wagon today for a short journey — and said each hour that he was coming — until I was delayed the entire day. And whatever the Merciful One does — He does for the good — even though one does not understand the good immediately. At present, it seems I will not travel any more via the road through Tultshin. I am confident in the kindnesses of Hashem that it will surely be for Rosh Hashana with the help

of Hashem Yisborach. More than this — peace and life and a good inscription and sealing.

And more than this — one must set one's heart at all times to understand in oneself that no distancing or slackening should result, G-d forbid, through rebuke and mussar that enters the heart. For it can be that the arousal of rebuke and mussar that comes upon the heart is from holiness — from the daily proclamation — but the Adversary always lies in wait for a person — and in every thought, speech, and deed that passes over a person there are two aspects: the elixir of life and the elixir of death — as our Sages, of blessed memory, said (Yoma 72b): V'samtem — if you are privileged — and so forth. Therefore he mostly inverts the words of the living G-d — and desires specifically through this to push away and slacken the heart of a person, G-d forbid.

[Hebrew: נָתָן מִבְּרֶסְלֶב...]

And already explained among us are several counsels on how to be saved from him — and to give oneself life and gladden oneself. And in particular through the wondrous, awesome, and most exalted path that the light of lights revealed on the verse I will sing to my G-d while I yet live [Tehillim 146:2] — (Likutay Moharan, 282). Turn it over and turn it over — age and wear yourself out in it — and from it do not stir — for you have no better quality than it. Nussun of Breslov.