Letter 190

Words of slander — through which dispute and hatred and contention multiply in the world — are in the aspect of a storm wind. Through which the air becomes confused — and it is impossible to hear (speech to distant places) — the voice of a word.

The true Tzadik — who goes before us — to find for us a trodden path — to return to Hashem Yisburach even from all the places most distant from the Torah. (In the aspects of earthliness — at the very lowest level entirely.)

And peace is… in the mundane… the clear and tranquil air. Through which the word of the Tzadik is heard from afar — throughout the entire world. Until the holy word flies to the good that is hidden among the Sitra Achra — like an arrow from a bow. Until the good is heard — and it pierces the liver of the Sitra Achra — the good comes out from there in peace.

Through dispute against the Tzadik — the Torah is forgotten. Attachment to the Tzadik is a great healing.

There are times — when specifically when a person arrives at a low and most distant place from the holiness of Israel — yet Hashem Yisburach devises thoughts that none be cast off from Him. Therefore He sends him there hints appropriate to that place — and provides him some merit that he can merit according to that distant place specifically. And if he strengthens his heart…