Ullim LeTroofah
עלים לתרופה
Leaves for Healing
LETTER TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE
Uman  ·  Year 5598 (1838)  ·  Written in haste before the post departs
To Abundant peace — to my beloved son — the rabbinical scholar — our Teacher the Rabbi Yitzchok — may his light shine.

Just now — close to noon — I arrived here in Uman in life and peace — praised be G-d — and I did not find Rabbi Naftali in his house — for he went for the moment to his desired place. And upon entering his house — I found his letter on his table — and it was a great comfort to me. And just now the post is very pressing — and it is impossible to extend at all — and to reply to him on his question. Praised be G-d — it seems to him that in his letter that he wrote him from Tshehrin — before he received his letter with his bitter cry — there is in it enough and enough to give life to his soul anew. Even though the matters are ancient — but they are truly ancient — the words of the Ancient of Days — that are renewed at every time and moment with wondrous renewal — for every one who truly desires to receive them. [דִּבְרֵי עַתִּיק יוֹמִין הַמִּתְחַדְּשִׁים בְּכָל עֵת וָרֶגַע — the words of the Ancient of Days — renewed at every time and moment. The Rebbe's teachings — precisely because they flow from the most ancient source of all — are inexhaustibly fresh. Every time one returns to them — they are new. The charge of the letter *from Tshehrin* is the charge of the *Azamra* Torah and its holy movements — which never grows old]

Listen my son well and you will understand what I write to you — for it is not a vain thing — the Torah Azamra — with the holy movements — that he told them several times that one must go with it — [הַתְּנוּעוֹת הַקְּדוֹשׁוֹת — the holy movements — the melody and the inner movement of the soul that accompanies the Torah Azamra as one sings and speaks it — the bodily and spiritual gestures through which the teaching enters the heart] *"hafoch bah v'hafoch bah"* — "turn it over and turn it over" — for it is your life forever. [Pirkei Avos 5:22] And according to what appears — he will travel after Shabbas Kodesh coming upon us for good — if Hashem wills — to his home. May Hashem lead him in tracks of righteousness for the sake of His name.

The words of your father who writes in haste.

Nussun of Breslov.

Overview: Uman — no date given — written in haste before the post departs. To Yitzchok. He arrived in Uman close to noon in life and peace — praised be G-d. Did not find Rabbi Naftali in his house — for he went for the moment to his desired place. Upon entering his house — found his letter on his table — great comfort. Just now the post is very pressing — impossible to extend at all — and to reply to him on his question. Praised be G-d — in his letter from Tshehrin — before he received his letter with his bitter cry — there is in it enough and enough to give life to his soul anew. Even though the matters are ancient — but they are truly ancient — the words of the Ancient of Days — that are renewed at every time and moment with wondrous renewal — for every one who truly desires to receive them. Listen my son well and you will understand — for it is not a vain thing — the Torah Azamra — with the holy movements — that he told them several times that one must go with it — "hafoch bah v'hafoch bah" — for it is your life forever. And according to what appears — he will travel after Shabbas Kodesh to his home. May Hashem lead him in tracks of righteousness for the sake of His name.

Key Themes

Words of the Ancient of Days — Renewed at Every Time and Moment — Hafoch Bah V'Hafoch — For It Is Your Life Forever Even though the matters are ancient — but they are truly ancient — the words of the Ancient of Days — that are renewed at every time and moment with wondrous renewal — for every one who truly desires to receive them. It is not a vain thing — the Torah Azamra — with the holy movements — one must go with it — "hafoch bah v'hafoch bah" — for it is your life forever.