Siman 147

(19.) Close to the time before he traveled to the Land of Israel, one person asked him why he does not draw them close and does not speak with them. He said to him that he has no words now. And he said that it had become known to him now regarding the verse [Isaiah 43]: "When you pass through the waters, I am with you" — how one can see when one desires the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And it was also a wonder to me why specifically on this verse. But I think it is because I need to cross the sea — but what is that to you? What need do you have of it? And even if I could clothe this in a moral teaching that would be needed for all — but I have no words now. Afterwards he was walking back and forth in the house, and answered and said: "I am poorer and more destitute than all the great ones — this one has money, that one has silver, this one has towns — and I have nothing. But this is all my consolation: when I recall that in the World of Truth all will need me and all will long to hear the novelties I constantly innovate at every time and every moment. What am I? Only what my soul innovates."