קד.

[This letter opens mid-sentence in the source text.] …Who has bound himself in immense love to the heroic Tzadik — the great possessor of power — who lowers and humbles himself greatly to all the most utterly distant ones in the very extremity of their great corruptions.

And annihilates and nullifies their power of evil — and reveals and clarifies the good hidden within them — and transforms the very essence of evil to complete good — and returns them to good. May Hashem lengthen your days and illuminate in your heart the lustrous brilliant lights of the hidden Torah — Oraysa Stima'ah — which G-d has sent for these our generations — to repair the world in perfection. May it be His will that it be publicized and revealed in the world speedily in our days — and then the world will be entirely new. To the honor of the President of Israel — my heart and my flesh — Mr. S.Z. Shazar, who watches and gazes and looks to see the true truth — which is wonder of wonders, wonders upon wonders, great and awesome without end and without limit — which will conquer the entire world and implant in their hearts a complete, pure, clear, and lucid faith, until all the false faiths and all the heresies will be nullified. And the unlearned will convert and become Jews, and will say: Hashem, the G-d of Israel, is King, and His kingship rules over all. Abundant peace. I exult and rejoice in my heart upon seeing your flaming blessing, and the love of your heart and the greatness of your kindness that you have multiplied toward me — in the amount of three hundred Israeli liras. Many thanks. May Hashem recompense your good deed. My eyes and my heart are lifted to our Father in Heaven — until He grace you and raise your glory and your success, and guard you and your household from all kinds of ailments, and heal you in body and soul for long and good and pleasant years. The entire essential purpose of the Exodus from Egypt, and all the awesome signs and wonders that Hashem Yisburach performed with our forefathers and with us from the day of the Exodus from Egypt until this very day in every generation — all of it is for the sake of the holy faith. In order to merit to complete faith — which is the essence of everything, and this is the essential service of a person all the days of his life. And for this purpose a person comes to this world — to know Hashem. And this is the purpose of all purposes.

Israel Dov Odesser