Letter 214

[This letter opens mid-sentence in the source text.]

…Who longs after the most awesome pauper (bettler) — the one of broad shoulders. Who carries us from all our places to the aspect of above place. And saves from the father of all fathers of impurity — which is the heresy and the false faiths of the liars who pursue honor and arrogance. And who battle with hardened brow — to distance and to separate the souls of Israel from the true Tzadik — the true shepherd — who is the source and root of their vitality, their salvation and their hope for the generations of eternity forever. And through this they cause all the heresies and all the troubles that befall Israel — which is a very grave sin — more than all the serious transgressions in the Torah. But in the end the Tzadik will complete his own — what he began — to repair the entire world in ultimate perfection. As he promised us and said: I have completed and I will complete! I have conquered and I will conquer! Peace and blessing and all good. From the Master of Mercy — peace and blessing and all good.