Your letter I received just now — together with the quill [הַקֻּלְמוֹס — a quill pen sent by Yitzchok to Reb Nussun — which Reb Nussun will use to begin writing this very letter and comments upon in Letter 159] — and the time of Minchah has arrived. And enclosed here are two more new prayers [תְּפִלּוֹת — continuing the extraordinary burst of new *tefillos* from the Rebbe's Torahs — three sent with Letter 157 on Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, and now two more in the same week. The composition of each new prayer is a spiritual event: the Rebbe's Torah transmuted into the register of direct address to Hashem] — and they will certainly revive your soul — for all of them are necessary for you — and they speak of your matters — to be saved from the illness of the recurring fever — may the Merciful One preserve us — and not to eat excessively and to merit complete knowledge [דַּעַת שָׁלֵם — *da'as shalem*: complete or whole knowledge — one of the central concepts of the Rebbe's teachings. In LM I:21 and elsewhere the Rebbe teaches that *da'as* — spiritual knowledge, the inner sense of Hashem's presence — is the foundation of all service. *Da'as shalem* is the fully integrated and undivided awareness: the knowing that has become one with the person and informs all their thoughts, words and deeds. It is the opposite of *da'as chiloni* — external or fragmented knowledge]. And so the second prayer — for multiplying in *tzedakah* and meriting worthy poor [עֲנִיִּים הֲגוּנִים — *aniyim hagunim*: worthy poor — the Rebbe's teaching that giving *tzedakah* to the right recipients — poor people of spiritual merit — is itself a *tikkun*, a spiritual rectification. The poor person of merit elevates the *tzedakah* given to him and returns it upward as blessing] — so that he will be rectified through this — and all of this is necessary for you. And I knew that your thoughts long for these rectifications — may Hashem Yisborach give you merit to attain them speedily.

And see and observe how great is the power of the will — for all the prayers that have been renewed now — all of them came from Hashem through His wondrous and awesome ways — and all of them were only made and renewed through the good desires and good longings of yours [הָרְצוֹנוֹת טוֹבִים וְהַכִּסּוּפִין טוֹבִים שֶׁלָּכֶם — the two complementary Breslov terms for the aspiring soul's upward movement: *ratzon* — will, desire — the driving force; and *kisufin* — yearning, longing — the accompanying emotional quality. The new prayers are presented as a divine gift that emerged *in response to* the longing of the community. The community's desire and yearning literally drew them down from above]. There is yet hope that we will all merit to fulfil all that we seek in our prayer — for Hashem is great and so forth — and to His greatness there is no searching out [גָּדוֹל ה' וּמְהֻלָּל מְאֹד וְלִגְדֻלָּתוֹ אֵין חֵקֶר — Tehillim 145:3: "Hashem is great and greatly praised — and to His greatness there is no searching out." The verse of the absolute inexhaustibility of the divine greatness. Whatever we ask in prayer — however great — is still infinitely within Hashem's capacity to grant, since His greatness has no limit and no end] [Tehillim 145:3]. And the day has gone very much and it is impossible to extend at all. May Hashem Yisborach give me merit to pray Minchah with *kavvanah* — with the power of these prayers.