שלב

My beloved son — my dear one. He received his letter just now — with the two gold coins — in the midst of very great preoccupation. And the immensity of the pain that was for him from his letter — he can understand himself. For his pain is his pain — and in all his distress he is distressed. [וּבְכָל צָרָתְךָ לִי צָר — from Yeshayahu 63:9 — "in all their distress He was distressed" — Reb Nussun applies it to himself as a father: in all your distress I am distressed. This is the deepest fatherly empathy — the child's suffering becomes the father's own] May Hashem Yisborach have mercy and save quickly. And also what you wrote in your letter — that you have much to write on several pages — he understands from afar — for he knows his anguish. But already Hashem Yisborach preceded the healing for the blow — what they merited to know from such a faithful and merciful Healer. He will heal him and all of them — with complete healing in the physical and the spiritual. And will awaken His mercy for his son — his dear friend — and send him quickly complete healing from heaven — healing of the soul and healing of the body — in the midst of the other sick ones of Israel. And because his mind is not at all clear just now — it is impossible to extend at all. And he hopes to Hashem to hear quickly the good from his son — may he live — for long days and good years — Amen so may it be His will. And do not forget that Hashem is great — and no one knows at all. The words of your father who intercedes for you and awaits salvation. Nussun of Breslov.