Letter 235

May Hashem have mercy upon you — and may the words of the Tzadik enter your ears and your heart well, well. For "hearing depends upon the heart" [Zohar III 53b]. That He have mercy upon us… and may you set your heart well, well — to what is done with us in this world. And may He give us counsel as is fitting for each and every one — in such a way that we are able to save ourselves from what we need to be saved. That our hope not be lost — Heaven forbid…

Whoever truly wishes to have compassion upon himself — must greatly ask in many supplications from Hashem Yisburach and from the true Tzadik. That they set their heart well — upon what is done with him. In such a way that they give him a true and eternal counsel — through which he succeeds forever in truth. Until we merit every time to a complete counsel drawn from the true Tzadik — through which he is able to stand against all kinds of corrupted counsels that the adversary brings around in his heart every day and at every moment.

…Good counsels — to recognize the Creator Yisburach through them. The essential thing is to receive counsels from the true Tzadik — in such a way that one is able through them every time to stand against the corruption and confusion of the counsels of the Sitra Achra — which intensifies through its cunningness. And to return and to strengthen oneself to remain at one's post — to strengthen oneself in the Tzadik — through whom is the essential complete counsel.

Know, my brother — that this is the essential wonder of the deeds of the Tzadik — for he is awesome. For he knows and strengthens each and every person — according to what he is — in every place where he may be — every single day — with deep and true counsels. Which are aimed precisely according to the corruption of the counsel that the adversary wishes to overpower him through its stratagems and its cunningness.