Today — before the morning prayer — he received his letter — from Rabbi Nachman — may his light shine. And at first he gladdened him with his words — in what he merited to be at the holy tziyun — and to pour out his soul there. May He Who hears prayer and hears sighing — hear his prayer and his sighing — and help him and save him in all that he needs to be saved — quickly. But afterwards — his cry was very great — unto his very soul. And he has already heard his cry greatly in the previous letters for some time — but now he added to express the bitterness of his heart. May Hashem Yisborach have mercy and save.

And what shall he do for him — my beloved son — for we are obligated to believe that "the Lord is righteous in all His ways." And if this itself is his cry — that Hashem is righteous and you are the guilty one — G-d protect us — He has already preceded to inform us of His abundant mercy and righteousness without measure. And he guarantees him — that also you are included in the mercy. And certainly Hashem Yisborach will not abandon you — for we have a very great elder-father — the elder of elders — the ancient of ancients. And we have someone to rely upon — in this world and in the World to Come — forever and ever. And know and believe — that all that passes over you — has already passed over many many great and upright tzaddikim — as he heard from his holy mouth — awesome stories about this matter — that it is impossible to explain in the open field. And also now — more and more than this — passes over many and many — and there are many aspects — tzaddikim and wicked — great and small — and middling. And the essential bitterness is over those who are in the aspect of middling against the world — such as we and such as you — who however it is — you are not in the category of the wicked — G-d forbid — and not in the category of the tzaddikim — only in the category of the middling — in which there are also thousands and myriads of levels without number. And what happens with each and every one every single day — it is impossible to imagine and to tell. And how many and many have sunk — G-d protect us — through this — because they have no one to truly strengthen them — and it is impossible to explain and to know what happens in this with each and every one. And this is all the strengthening of the dispute — against those who hold to his name and his holy ways — for they arouse against them very greatly — because they are still burrowing and hoping and toiling to come out from the flood of great waters that strengthen over them at every time — as written in Psalms 88: "sabuni ka'mayim kol ha'yom hikifuni yachad" — and likewise "tava'ti b'yon m'tzulah v'ein ma'amad basi b'ma'amakei mayim" — and likewise in many verses. And mah nashiv laHashem kol tagmulohi aleinu — that we merited to receive his holy words — which can give life even to you and to those much worse than you — greatly more and more. Lulei Hashem she'hayah lanu b'inyan zeh k'var avadnu b'anyeinu — lulei Hashem ezrasah li.

And know my beloved son — that the multitude of fear and alarm and melancholy that you have from your ponderings and confusions — this itself strengthens — G-d forbid — the confusions and evil ponderings — as written in his holy books — and in particular in chapter 72 — and in Likutay Tinyyana in chapters 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 — look there carefully — that it is explained many times that one need not turn his face to them — only not to look at them at all. And if even so it seems to you that they stand around you and will not let your spirit rest — even so — be strong and bold — to say words of Torah or prayer or the work of commerce and the like — and do not look backward at all. And the essential — do not fear and do not be afraid at all — for Hashem is with you — as our Master our Teacher and our Rebbe — of blessed memory — said — that one must pass over a narrow bridge in this world — and the essential is not to be afraid.

And the essential that rises above all — is the great power of our Master our Teacher and our Rebbe — of blessed memory — that you merited not to be an opponent against him — and even to be at his holy tziyun — in particular in the days of Rosh Hashana — within the general gathering of his people — the holy gathering of his. Would that also your sons and all your descendants be counted with the holy gathering called by his holy name — of blessed memory. And praised be G-d — you have with what to spend the day — in three prayers a day — and in study of Shulchan Aruch and Tanach and other holy books if you have leisure. And in particular the books of our Master our Teacher and our Rebbe — of blessed memory — and what we merited to make new and to explain in them. Hafoch bahem v'hafoch bahem v'siv u'v'lei bahem — and from them do not move — for you have no better measure than them. And at every time that he writes what Hashem Yisborach helps him to explain in his holy Torah — it comes to his mind that this conversation is very needed for you. And praised be G-d — you have many of them in print and in writing — and you can still receive new ones from them with Hashem's help. And also you need to engage in commerce — and good is Torah with the way of the world — for the toil of both makes one forget sin. Remove from yourself sorrow and sighing with all your strength — trust in the chasadim of Hashem — for all will turn to good. And fulfil "sasson v'simcha yassigu v'nasu yagon va'anacha" — to snatch the sorrow and sighing specifically into the joy — to say in his heart: all the more I am worse in my own eyes — G-d forbid — the more I have to rejoice more and more in truth — that even so I am not an opponent against him — and I am called by his name — the memory of the righteous for a blessing — and in the category of his holy gathering. Un fort hop — and in any case only joy.