Letter 284

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

…To make known, to glorify and to publicize and to illuminate the light of truth in the world. Who is the true Tzadik — the light of all lights. Who illuminates our eyes through the light of His G-dliness — even in the bitter dark places that now exist in the world — in this dark generation…

Who thinks thoughts and stratagems — to make known and to illuminate the light of truth in the world. Who is the true Tzadik — the light of all lights — who illuminates our eyes through the light of His G-dliness — even in the bitter dark places that now exist in the world. And shatters and subdues…

The discerning one — the revered one…