A Car Plunges Off a Mountain — A Miracle of Salvation

First — I will write to you of my good health, and may I also merit to hear from you only good. And I will also inform you: on Sunday of this week I arrived in Jerusalem. And when I traveled from Tiberias here — when the automobile reached the mountain near Nazareth, it fell from the mountain together with all of us [the car went off the road on the mountainside near Nazareth — an extremely dangerous stretch of road], and was shattered to pieces. And blessed be G‑d — in the merit of the Tzadik, Foundation of the World, the Rashbi, of blessed memory, and in the merit of Rabbainu the Holy and Awesome Nachman, Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman, of blessed memory — we were saved. And we literally went from death to life. And there is no way to measure or assess the greatness of the miracles that were done for us — above the natural order entirely — and we remained on the middle of the mountain. And it was a miracle of miracles that would not suffice all time to describe and enumerate them. And if all the days of one's life were filled with ink, etc. — we cannot suffice to give thanks to G‑d, blessed be He, for the greatness of the miracles and wonders, etc.

And one non-Jew died in the hospital in Nazareth, and one non-Jew had his eye struck and blinded, and all his face was struck and injured. And we — the Jews — blessed be G‑d, were saved. And only each one was a little struck and wounded. And blessed be G‑d we have already healed. And the officer from Nazareth gave us another automobile — and this one too [the second car!] ran over a cow and swerved and nearly fell — and did fall into mud. And we were left the entire night in a Jewish colony [קלניה יהודית — a Jewish agricultural colony], and a day and night in Haifa [הפולי — Afula, probably; or Haifa]. And we traveled by train to Haifa on Friday, and we spent Shabbos in Haifa, and we recited Birchas HaGomel [ברכת הגומל — the blessing of thanksgiving recited after surviving a life-threatening experience, as required by Talmudic law (Brachos 54b)]. And on Sunday we borrowed money and traveled by train. And there is no way to measure or assess the depth of our toil during those days — truly beyond all measure. And when I arrived here — my situation: I cannot describe to you the depth of my terrible circumstances. Literally in the lowest level imaginable.