Letter 52

One must always remember well the magnitude of the loftiness of the nobility of his delicate and very exalted soul in its supernal root — and thousands of thousands and tens of thousands of tens of thousands of worlds without measure depend upon it. And one must be aroused with abundant mercy to have compassion upon it — to adorn it and to beautify it and to polish it with the most supernal and most awesome lustrous brilliance of the Tzadik. To rescue it from the fowler's snare of the oppressors and the palaces of exchange — (who wish to plunder and to oppress the good of his soul) — which substitute and corrupt, and lie in ambush for him, who wish to plunder and to oppress the good of his soul. And to conduct oneself in the noble manner of the holy kingship of the true King's Son who was exchanged — who is the King over all Israel from generation to generation.