Letter 231

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…Who longs to praise and to glorify and to honor and to magnify and to publicize the name of the Tzadik…

…Who stands at the head of those who believe in the true Tzadik — who rules and governs over all of Israel from generation to generation. Who always flows and pours upon them at every moment — the waters of his wisdom — which are most precious and wondrous healings and remedies — that have never yet been revealed in the world.

(Fortunate are you — that you have merited to flee and to escape.) And strives with devotion (with counsels) — with all kinds of many counsels and stratagems — to publicize and to glorify and to honor and to magnify the name of the true Tzadik — throughout all (the world) the worlds.

Fortunate are you — that you have merited to this — to flee and to escape from the heresies and the opposition and the investigations and the difficulties against the truly wise Tzadik. All of which flow from the possessors of honor and arrogance (who wish — from the possessors of honor and arrogance) — the hypocrites and the liars. Who destroy and ruin the world entirely — and bring it to chaos and emptiness and darkness and gloom — Heaven forbid. May Hashem save us from them. Peace and life and all good.