Remember the Love in Meron — Before the Wedding; R' Noson of Tulchin's Saying

[Yiddish:] "My dear, warm-hearted brother — one must not abandon oneself in any way. Is this then the ultimate purpose — to pass one's life in the world with such vanities? 'Is it conceivable that I was created to waste my days in such vanity?' 'I am a small creature of the sea — and I go into the mouth of the Leviathan.' Remember still the love that was in Meron before my wedding [קודם חתונתי — this is the first explicit mention of the fact that R' Shmuel's wedding has now taken place! He refers to the time in Meron before the wedding as a past memory, meaning the wedding has already occurred.] — as the holy Tzadik, R' Noson of Tulchin [הרה"צ ר"נ מטולטשין — apparently R' Noson Sternhartz (of Breslov / Tulchin) — referred to here as a later transmitting figure in the chain; or possibly a different R' Noson from Tulchin], said: 'Who is my brother? A Breslov Chassid. Who is my father? A Breslov Chassid. Who is my wife?' etc., etc. And Rabbainu the Holy one brings in Torah Chadi Rabbi Shimon [Torah 50]: anon bichavuta talya milta. And Rabbainu the Holy one says at the opening of Rabbi Shimon [Torah 50] [apparently the opening section of this Torah lesson]: one can sleep all seventy years thinking one is learning and praying — but one is sleeping. Then one must come to the Tzadik who can wake through Sipuray Maasiyos — stories from ancient times — which is higher than all seventy faces of Torah."

[Yiddish:] "My dear, warm-hearted brother — R' Noson the Holy one once grabbed hold of his white beard and said: 'A white beard — and still a Breslov Chassid! So what can we even say?' And the Daughter of the King answered all the kings who came to seek her hand — but the Seven Waters [ז' ואסרין — the Seven Waters; from the story of the Daughter of the King in Rabbainu's Tales; the Seven Waters are a mystical obstacle — the true path to the Daughter of the King requires passing through them, which only the one who has undergone true self-sacrifice (mesirat nefesh) and accepted humiliation can do] did not pass over you — because the essence is the self-sacrifice and the humiliations that one accepts in order to draw close. And one must know the marginal note: 'Avraham was one' [Ezekiel 33:24 — cited in a marginal note in Likutay Moharan, with the teaching that Avraham served G‑d solely through being one — utterly single-minded and unified in his devotion, without distraction] — that Avraham our Father served G‑d, blessed be He, only by being one, etc. Study it there."