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📋 Translator's Summary — Siman 18 (Rabbi Yonasan Mishtaay) And how Torah scholars must through their learning bring blessing and illumination into the roots of the souls of Israel in the thought of the Holy One — producing converts and penitents. Only there are still many obstacles until they cast off the dirty garments and merit the wings of the mitzvah. And it is impossible to merit Torah except through humility. And honoring those who fear Hashem with a whole heart — the ascent of honor to its root — fear. And when honor returns to its root — fear — then the damages of fear are completed and one merits peace within oneself — the body nullifying all its desires before the soul. And through this one merits prayer — and through this the general peace is drawn — peace in all worlds — to bring the worlds to their perfection. And one should engage only for the rectification of one's soul — even all of one's prayers only for this — for when one is spiritually rectified, material rectification follows automatically. And the mitzvah of Chanukah candles — drawing all the above rectifications — until the general peace of the future: "the wolf shall dwell with the lamb" [Isaiah 11]. Until: "there shall no longer be a merchant in the house of Hashem" [Zechariah 14] — "until the foot is no longer in the marketplace." And the essential healing through peace — "peace, peace — says Hashem — and I will heal him" [Isaiah 57]. And bringing people back to repentance is the rectification of the sin of seminal emission. In Siman 15 [Or HaGanuz] it is elaborated that through justice [mishpat] — the person judging and evaluating himself in all his affairs — he elevates fear to its root which is Da'as — and merits pure and clear fear: fear of the Name in awe of the Majesty. And through Da'as one merits to taste the flavor of the hidden light [or haganuz] — the hidden secrets of the Torah that will be revealed in the future — the aspect of holiness — the Temple — the World to Come — the aspect of the great tree from which all souls emerge. The author writes: See — I have shown you in great brevity from all the above discourses how they all revolve and turn upon the secret of the world of rectification and future governance — and the coming redemption and coming of Mashiach and the building of the Temple speedily in our days.