Letter 54

The true Tzadik has revealed words that give life to all souls — from the smallest to the greatest — from the loftiest heights to the very ultimate of the lowly levels. Incline your ear and hear (well) — open the eyes of your intellect and see and understand and behold the truth of truth! Remove from yourself the crookedness of heart and the wisdoms of vanity — distance them from you. Have mercy upon your soul — and incline your mind toward the true truth.

I give great thanks to Hashem with my mouth — that He has strengthened and encouraged us to gather wondrous treasures and precious, eternal, life-giving healings for the souls. One who looks upon them with the eye of truth will see within himself the precious splendor of their greatness — and the truth will testify to itself. May Hashem send us His light and His truth and always guide us in the path of truth. And may He incline our hearts to serve Him all the days of our lives in truth — to love peace and truth.

Were it not for his outstanding disciple — our master and teacher Rabbi Nussun, may his memory be for a blessing — this new wondrous light would have been entirely concealed and hidden from the world!

Very many and great are his deeds and his acts that he has prepared for us — to give us life as of this day. And his acts that he performed and prepared for all — for us and for all the generations — and has provided us with treasuries upon treasuries of faith and daas — that we never be shaken.

Until all who see this great and awesome sight will be astounded and astonished and tremble. He will be astounded and astonished — he will be bewildered and tremble — all who see this new and awesome wonder — without end and without limit — which gives life to and sustains us through his wisdom in this generation — for all generations, in every generation and generation.

Know, my brother — that everything that has happened to us all the days of our lives, and everything that happens in the world — is all hinted at in his holy Torah. And all who attend to this will be astounded and amazed.

Know, my brother — that one who truly desires the truth — will certainly merit to understand the truth. Even though he has many difficulties and crookednesses, etc.

I have set my heart to write — in these our generations, in which hearts are going and diminishing — because of the very extremity of the darkness (of this) of these our generations, in which hearts are going and diminishing. Hashem knows the truth — that the matter of writing is very hard for me. The matter of writing is very hard for me — for hearts are going and diminishing.

…With great warmth and great passion — whose heart blazes like a burning fire without measure and without end — to make known and to publicize in every place in the world the secret of the awesomeness of the greatness of the Nachal Noavaya. Who alone is able to take us out from the darkness — and to redeem us from all the darknesses passing over us. Which is the end of the era of the exile in these our generations.