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[This letter opens mid-sentence in the source text.] …In the future — at the time of the last End — Moshiach will come to redeem Israel.

To the honor of the President of Israel — the daughter of my eye and my heart — Mr. S.Z. Shazar, to whom Hashem has given an understanding heart — to understand the secret of the awesomeness of the greatness of the Nachal Noavaya — who has revealed great and wondrous novelties beyond all reckoning, through which He will take us out from within the depths of the descent and the concealment, and will repair everything in perfection. May he receive blessing and salvation from Hashem, Amen.

The fire of my love for you — which burns in my heart always — will kindle and never be extinguished forever. "Many great waters cannot extinguish it" [Song of Songs 8:7], Heaven forbid. We must always be together — even when we do not see one another. For the bodies are distant — but the souls are very close. For we are bound together in the true truth — the Nachal Noavaya — which is all our hope and our vitality from generation to generation forever. And he will arouse this awesome melody in the world — and through this he will redeem Israel — and repair the entire world — and reveal to all eyes His G-dliness and His kingship and His dominion. The immensity of the anguish I have from your suffering — from the illness of your precious wife — there is no way to measure. For your pain is literally my pain. With a bitter heart I shed many tears in my prayer and supplication before Hashem Who hears the prayer of every mouth — that in His great mercies He have compassion upon us and remove her illness from her. May He send His word and heal her — and may she return to her full strength completely, speedily, Amen. My heart exulted and rejoiced and was glad — on Sunday, the 2nd of Adar I, I merited to receive from his special emissary his great contribution in the amount of three hundred Israeli liras. It greatly gave life to my soul — for now after the operations I am in need of recuperation. I am also glad to inform him that on the eve of the previous Sukkos festival there arrived in my hands his doubled, tripled and quadrupled contribution in the amount of four hundred Israeli liras. And because of my serious illness I was unable to write an acknowledgment — nor was I able to properly fulfill the mitzvah of the sukkah as fitting. In the month of Marcheshvan I entered Hadassah Hospital under the supervision of Professor Zaltz — and I underwent three operations, and was in great danger. And through the greatness of the kindnesses of Hashem — through miracle and wonder — I came out in peace. I hold in my heart all the good things that you have done for me from then until now — kept and sealed in the King's treasury forever and ever. A thousandfold thanks and expressions of gratitude from the very depths of my heart. May Hashem recompense his good deed — and may He grant him grace and mercy before Him always, and fulfill all his desires for good. And may He have mercy and speedily give a complete healing to his precious wife, Rachel daughter of Zelda, Amen, so may it be His will. Many worlds thunder and shake from the wondrous deed he has performed — in bringing out to light the holy book Ebay HaNachal. Eminent Torah scholars have drawn close through it — and many true ba'alei teshuvah have been made. We must greatly rejoice in this. Fortunate are you and fortunate is your portion that you have merited to this.

Israel Dov Odesser