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To the honor of the President of Israel — the delight of my heart — Mr. S.Z. Shazar

To the honor of the President of Israel — the delight of my heart — Mr. S.Z. Shazar, who has delved with the loftiness of his wisdom and his understanding — to know and to contemplate where the true leader is — to hold and to unite with him in truth. And who desires and strives to draw all Israel to this leader, who is able to illuminate the knowledge and the conception of His G-dliness — even within us — in the great extremity of the darkness of this generation. Peace and health and all good.

Yesterday I merited to visit your precious and noble sister Miriam — may Hashem heal her and restore her speedily through the merit of Rabbainu the holy and the awesome. And there was between us a great joy as is customary — and in my honor she ate all the foods of the midday meal. I am very weak in strength and am not in good health — and because of this I have not yet arranged the introduction to the holy book. And my eyes are lifted and await Hashem Yisburach that He grant me merit to overcome all the obstacles soon, and to begin and to complete the matter for the best, as the desire of his heart.

The matter of our bond — which is entirely only pure and clear truth without any blemished thought of honor or self-glorification, or money and the like, Heaven forbid — only truly for the sake of Heaven alone, to have mercy upon Israel with true mercy, to publicize and to make known to all who is the King of Glory, who is the true leader of this generation — who is the essential source of all our vitality and our hope, our consolation and our redeemer from generation to generation forever.

Your faithful lover, who longs day and night with all the expiration of the soul for your health and your good — and who prays always for your complete healing in body and soul, which is the benefit of the people of Israel. Yisroel son of Odesser Author of Ebay HaNachal

Israel Dov Odesser