Letter 33

My dear son!

Remember well, well — all the kindnesses and the wonders that Hashem Yisburach performed with you. So may Hashem continue with you a thousandfold!

The true Tzadik — all the salvation and all the desire and all the aim of Rabbainu Hakadosh, may his memory be for a blessing — is that we merit to walk with his words. Meaning to fulfill them simply — and to understand one thing from within another. And to find for oneself counsels every single day always, in all that passes over a person at every time and season — by day and by night, in his lying down and in his rising up and in his walking on the way. In the days of his youth and the days of his maturity and the days of his old age — from his beginning to his very end. Whether between himself and himself — or in his conduct with his household and his wife and his children.

With what shall we precede, shall we precede… it is upon us to remind ourselves every time of all the kindnesses and the wondrous good things that Hashem performed wondrously for us — what Hashem has performed for us. That we have merited to engage in such things — which stand at the very height of the heights of the world without end. To give life to our souls in this dark and orphaned generation — in our lowly state as it is.

You have put joy in my heart. Therefore we are obligated to give thanks and to praise Hashem always — who has performed kindnesses and wondrous good things for us. Through the immensity of your longing to hear such awesome secrets — that we have merited to engage in such things, which stand at the very height of the heights of the world without end. Which give life to our souls in this dark generation — in our lowly state as it is. Remember well, etc., forever.