I received your letter today and was very pleased. Just now I am standing in the middle of prayer — before *U'va l'Tziyon* [קֹדֶם וּבָא לְצִיּוֹן — "before *U'va l'Tziyon*" — a section near the end of the morning *Shacharis* prayer. Reb Nussun has literally paused mid-prayer to write these lines — the urgency of communication overcoming even the constraint of the prayer service] — and it is impossible to extend. The bearer of this letter is your brother-in-law — my dear friend Rabbi Yosef — may his light shine — who will tell you everything face to face. And in all likelihood you have already received the letter that I sent yesterday to you along with the letter to the rabbi of Savran [הָרַב מִסַּאוְורַאן — the rabbi of Savran — a town in Podolia. Reb Nussun has written a letter to this rabbi as part of an effort to find intermediaries who might help quench the *machloket*] and so forth — for I commanded that a special man be sent to you for this. Just now Rabbi Shmuel Weinberg is here with all the wedding party of his brother — and I need to speak with them too — and I have no leisure at all. Only this: consult well with your brother-in-law and with our true friends — perhaps you can find a man to speak with him — perhaps some salvation will sprout that the fire will be quenched [אוּלַי יִצְמַח אֵיזֶה יְשׁוּעָה שֶׁתִּשְׁקַע הָאֵשׁ — perhaps some salvation will sprout — *yitzmach* — that the fire will be quenched — *tishka ha'eish*. The *machloket* is described as a fire — and the hope is that through human intermediaries and through divine kindness it can be quenched. The language of organic growth: *yitzmach* — will sprout — as if salvation is a seed waiting to germinate] — and may He who makes peace in His heights — make peace upon us [Iyov 25:2; Kaddish] and so forth.