Letter 435

The entire essential lengthening and prolonging of the exile — is only because of the dispute and the baseless hatred against the true Tzadik and his people. Which is worse than all the transgressions. But the immensity and the force of the intensification against this — is so great and most exalted — without measure and without worth. That even the Tzadikim and the worthy ones — who have bent their shoulder to bear the yoke of Torah and the shattering of the desires — even within them has fallen the flame of jealousy and dispute. And the receiving of slander and baseless hatred. And they have stumbled and been trapped so greatly — that many pages could explain it. (But in the end of ends…)

And this matter has been our undoing — to distance us from the truth more than anything. And it still dances among them — to magnify the dispute and the separation. And this matter has been our undoing — to distance from the truth more than anything. But in the end of ends…!