Letter 247

(The Tzadik gathers the displaced from the four corners of the earth.)

The Tzadik — who is the great possessor of power — who subdues the klipa of Amalek — is in the aspect of the "staff of strength" [Psalms 110:2]. And the Sitra Achra wishes to swallow him. And then he stands in its house of swallowing — in the aspect of "at his neck lodges strength" [Job 41:14]. Namely — the Tzadik — the possessor of power — who is in the aspect of the staff of strength — stands against it at its neck — at its house of swallowing. And then it is compelled to vomit — namely the Sitra Achra is compelled to vomit and to bring out all the holinesses of daas and mercy that it has swallowed — from the waters of daas that it swallowed from the holiness — the holiness of daas. In the aspect of "he swallowed wealth and vomits it" [Job 20:15]. And not only does the Sitra Achra vomit and bring out all the holiness that it swallowed — but also the very essence (of its vitality) — its very own vitality — it is compelled to vomit and to bring out. And this is the aspect of converts who convert — for at first those souls were literally from the very essence of the Sitra Achra. And now they return to holiness. For the Sitra Achra is compelled to vomit and to bring out its very essence of vitality. And this is the aspect of converts — for the power of the Tzadik descends literally within it. And through him it brings out and vomits its very essence of vitality literally from within itself and its belly. And he shatters the heads of the Sitra Achra and the serpent — that had been suckling from the mercy and the daas.