Letter 271

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

In these latter days — at the end of this last bitter exile — in which we have wondrously descended. And each and every one has fallen — descended and fallen — to the place where he has fallen. As each one knows within himself. (Essential intensification)… Hashem Yisburach has seen — that through our many sins — in every generation and generation — the brazen-faced ones of the generation intensify…