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[This letter opens mid-sentence in the source text.] …Who relates to the true Tzadik with reverence and with immense love without end and without limit. And who strives with all his strength to greatly publicize and to make known throughout all the worlds the name of the true Tzadik — through whom the redemption will come to us and to all Israel and to the entire world. A good inscription and sealing — for a long good life and peace. One must always remember the magnitude of the loftiness of the nobility of his delicate soul — which is very high in its supernal root. To have mercy upon it, to adorn it and to beautify it and to polish it with the most supernal and most awesome lustrous brilliance of the Tzadik — to rescue it from the fowler's snare of the oppressors (and the foolish) [and the palaces] of exchange — which substitute and corrupt greatly. And to conduct oneself in the noble manner of the holy kingship of the true King's Son who was exchanged. The holy days of Elul have already arrived — the days of mercy and forgiveness. And one must now return and begin afresh — to yearn and to long with powerful desires — to remain fixed at the holy Rosh Hashana within the holy gathering of the true Tzadik. And not to separate oneself from them all the days of one's life. For as long as one is within the whole of the gathering that the true shepherd gathers — there is remedy for him always. Even if what passes over him will pass — however it may be.

When a person wishes to draw close to Hashem Yisburach and to return in teshuvah — thousands and tens of thousands of descents without measure must pass over him. And he must be a very strong warrior — to fortify his heart every time, not to abandon his place because of any descent in the world whatsoever. And this is the essential and the foundation upon which everything depends — never to fall in one's mind, and to strengthen oneself always — even as he is — to believe with complete faith that there is no descent in the world. For in every place one can find Hashem Yisburach. And even when one falls into the nethermost depths, Heaven have mercy — even so one must always strengthen oneself and never despair at all. For even there Hashem Yisburach is found — in the aspect of "If I make my bed in the netherworld, behold You are there" [Psalms 139:8]. The evil inclination lies in ambush for the soul of the person always — to defile his mind with sins and transgressions and great blemishes. And he needs abundant mercy and great strength — to deliver his soul from the hand of the netherworld, until his soul returns to its place and to its rest. The essential mercy that one must have for Israel is to implant within them the light of the Tzadik — and through this to take them out from sins and to bring them close to Hashem Yisburach. A good and sweet year — a year of redemption and salvation. The transcriber, who always prays for his wellbeing and his success — and wishes him and his household a good and sweet year, a year of redemption and salvation.