Letter 386

The falsehood is intensifying and spreading now in length and in breadth — greatly beyond all measure. To mislead the entire world — Heaven forbid — from Hashem Yisburach and from His holy Torah. And already many have been seized and trapped in what they have been trapped — through the falsehood. (But even so — the falsehood has still not come to its rest and repose…) But even so — the falsehood has still not completed coming to its rest and repose. And therefore it intensifies and spreads every time — with new lies and deceptions without measure. As we see — the group of apostates and the opponents against the point of truth… And it always strives to seize everything — through many and many kinds of enticements and incitements and smooth words. For before it comes to the ultimate of its wholeness — it has no rest and no repose. And therefore it intensifies and spreads every time — with new lies and deceptions and deceits without measure. And it always strives to seize everything — Heaven forbid — with its lies. Through many and many kinds of enticements and incitements and smooth words — until its wholeness. But through the spreading of the falsehood even more — when the time and the moment arrives that the falsehood has spread so greatly in its fullness — until it is close to its rest and its repose — Heaven forbid. That nearly all will err in its lies — through such great multitude of lies. The falsehood will be transformed to the truth — and all the nations will turn to the truth — to call in the name of Hashem. And this is: "For then I will transform upon all the peoples" [Zephaniah 3:9], etc.

The fools and the boors do not know and do not understand this matter: What is this that Hashem has done: "When the wicked flourish like grass and all the doers of evil blossom — it is in order to destroy them forever" [Psalms 92:8]. Why does He need to make them flourish — and then destroy them forever? But in truth — the ways of Hashem are upright — and there is no injustice in Him. Only that it is impossible to understand this through any human intellect.