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[This letter opens mid-sentence in the source text.] …Who has sharpened his wisdom and his intellect — to attain and to understand the sweetness of the most supernal luminous lights — which are deep counsels, new, complete, upright and clear — that the true shepherd-Tzadik has revealed. Who gathers the displaced of Israel and subdues and nullifies their evil and brings them close to Hashem Yisburach. Fortunate are you that you have merited to taste the pleasantness of the truth — and to be saved from the venom of impurity and the falsehood of heresy and false faiths of the masters of honor and arrogance — the false prophets — who pursue honor and arrogance.

And who fight with insolence to conceal and to hide the light of the Tzadik — who is the savior of Israel forever and ever. Woe and alas to them! For through this they uproot the truth — and themselves and Israel — from the source and root of their vitality. And through this they cause all the heresies and all the troubles that come upon Israel. May Hashem have mercy upon them from now on — that they distance themselves from falsehood and return to the truth speedily.

[This letter opens mid-sentence in the source text.] And may He return them to the truth — that they flee from falsehood and return to the truth speedily. …Who has sharpened his wisdom and his intellect — to attain and to understand the sweetness of the most supernal luminous lights — which are deep counsels, new, complete, upright and clear — that the true shepherd-Tzadik has revealed. Who gathers the displaced of Israel and subdues and nullifies their evil and brings them close to Hashem Yisburach. Fortunate are you that you have merited to taste the pleasantness of the truth — and to be saved from the venom of impurity and the falsehood of heresy and false faiths of the masters of honor and arrogance — the false prophets — who pursue honor and arrogance. And who fight with insolence to conceal and to hide the light of the Tzadik — who is the savior of Israel forever and ever. Woe and alas to them! For through this they uproot the truth — and themselves and Israel — from the source and root of their vitality. And through this they cause all the heresies and all the troubles that come upon Israel. May Hashem have mercy upon them from now on — that they distance themselves from falsehood and return to the truth speedily. And may He return them to the truth — that they flee from falsehood and return to the truth speedily.

Israel Dov Odesser