Letter 167

The occupation of this wretched person in this world — is very, very deep. Very deep — very deep — who can find it?

Fortunate are we — a thousandfold and ten-thousandfold times without number — that we have merited to know of such a holy and awesome light. Of Torah teachings and conversations and most awesome stories — which give life to and restore all the souls with seven restorers of taste. Certainly you can always give yourself life through them — always — even in the distress of the soul — even in all kinds of distress of the soul. Even though we ourselves are guilty — even so His kindness Yisburach is very great — beyond all reckoning and all number. And through His kindness Yisburach He will not abandon us.

How great are the kindnesses of Hashem that He performed with us in this generation — through the true man of understanding. Who has drawn down such awesome repairs — to give life to all the fallen souls — who have multiplied as they have multiplied in these generations. But woe to those who dispute and oppose the one who labors at the repair of their souls at every moment! And even though they dispute as they dispute and mock as they mock — even so he labors at their repair from afar. For the spring that flows out, etc. — waters and refreshes the land even in the place where it flows underground in the depths. And how good is our portion — that we have merited through the kindnesses of Hashem and His wondrous salvation — to truly know of the one who labors at our repair forever in every generation.

How greatly does the physical coarseness of the person and of the world distance one from such awesome and holy things! Even so — it is upon us to rejoice and to dance with a whole heart — with great joy — that we have merited to know of that which he does not remember at all — and he is elder and young shoot.