קלה

Praise to G-d — blessed be G-d, blessed be G-d — here all of us are in the line of life and peace. So may I merit to hear from you — life and peace and a complete healing — together with all of Israel — without limit.

On Wednesday, Reb Altir, may his candle shine, came here — who is traveling to Jerusalem — and conveyed to me greetings of peace from you — and told me that your precious son is not in good health. And he had a letter from you — but he lost it. And immediately I came home and told my wife, may she live, and my sister, may she live — and immediately went with them to the graves of the Tzaddikim — and performed a redemption from my own money — which I gave as a gift for your son. And on Thursday I wrote you a letter — asking you to inform me every day what he has done. And perhaps you have no leisure — I asked of my friend Reb Aizik to write to me — for the suffering is beyond all estimate — that we have no news from you of his good health.

And today the wagon came — and the blind non-Jewish driver brought me from the woman Chana, may she live — beans and butter and plum-preserves — but brought us no letter at all. And truly our souls are entirely spent — longing to hear from you the good tiding of his health. And in the end we have no news at all. Therefore I ask of you to spur yourselves with alacrity [לזרז עצמכם — "to spur yourselves with alacrity" — from zerizus — alacrity, zealous swiftness in action; to urge oneself with eager, energetic speed; stronger and more urgent than merely "rouse yourselves"] and write to us good news. And may the G-d Who is good do good for you — in the merit of all the Tzaddikim — and in the merit of Rabbainu z"l and his holy disciple — and may you merit to raise him to Torah and to the wedding canopy and to good deeds. And may He in His great mercies remember you this year with a male child — a seed that endures — for "two are better than one." [Ecclesiastes 4:9 — "two are better than one — for they have a good reward for their labor"; the verse of the advantage of partnership and companionship; applied here to the blessing of a second child alongside the sick son]

And may Hashem Yisbarach merit us to be pure — for the receiving of the Torah — with fresh ardor — and to draw upon ourselves repentance from the fiftieth gate — and to receive the holy festival of Shavuos in holiness and purity — and to draw upon ourselves great lovingkindness and supernal knowledge from the mikveh of the fiftieth gate — and to receive the holy festival in joy — so that we merit true settled composure of mind — to reckon from now onward on our eternal ultimate purpose — upon what we have come into this lowly world — and in what manner we shall enter before the King [v'b'haych anpin ni'ul kadam malka — Aramaic from the Zohar: "and in what manner shall we enter before the King" — ni'ul — "we shall enter" — from Aramaic a'al — to enter; the soul's approach and entry before the divine King]. And nonetheless we should be in joy always — for Rabbainu z"l warned greatly about constant joy. And particularly on the holy festival — through which is repaired the encompassing evil in which all bad character traits are contained. And to merit all the true and eternal good.

More there is nothing new — only long life and good life — without limit.

Your friend, one who truly loves you — who seeks your peace always — with strong love, Nussun from Breslov

Undated — shortly before Shavuos 5642. A fuller account of the same events as Letter 134. A radiant Shavuos teaching: the fiftieth gate as the mikveh of complete repentance. נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן