Letter 164

The immensity of the trouble in these generations — that the natural scientists strengthen themselves. And they multiply books of vanity and apostasy that are against the holy Torah — and especially against the Oral Torah. And they mock all the books of truth — all the wisdom of the Talmud and the holy Zohar, etc. They wish to invert inversion upon inversion — to nullify, to cause forgetting and to nullify the Torah. And the essential drawing down of the miracle and the salvation is through the true Tzadik — who is the essential one of all the true Tzadikim. Who uproots the building of their houses. For his holy books uproot their evil opinions — and they are erased from the hearts of Israel. And they illuminate greatly the light of the holy Torah — through the multitude of his holy books and his holy disciples.