אות - קמה

Related to the Torah whose first letters spell the word "Kasha" [difficulty] — "Sh'ma Hashem koli ekra" [Hear O Lord my voice, I call] (Psalms 27:7) (in Likutay Tinyana section 46) — before the word "and in any case Hashem Yisburach hears his voice, which is his salvation" — it seems to me something is missing there. And the essential matter is that the crying out in one's heart itself is in the aspect of faith. For even though great heresies and difficulties come upon him — even so, since he cries out in any case within his heart, certainly there is still within him a spark and point of holy faith. For if, Heaven forbid, there were no longer any point of faith within him at all, he would not cry out at all. It is found that the very crying out itself is an aspect of faith — understand this. And also through the crying out one can merit to faith, meaning: the crying out itself is an aspect of faith as mentioned, only the faith is in a state of very great smallness. And through the crying out itself one can merit to faith — meaning to elevate and magnify the faith until the difficulties depart from him. And even if one does not yet merit this — even so, the crying out itself is very good as mentioned above.

I heard from one of our followers who said that before Rabbainu o.b.m. told the story of the king who had a son who was entirely made of precious stones — which is printed (in Sipurei Ma'asiyos, Story 5) (289) — he said before telling it: I know a story in which the entire Name of forty-two letters is contained (290). And afterward he told that story. And even so, we do not know if that is the story of the Name of forty-two (291). And I myself also heard from his holy mouth, several years ago, that he said: the Baal Shem Tov o.b.m. knew a story that contained the Name of forty-two, and he spoke with me then about the Name of forty-two. And he asked me to find an interpretation in the vernacular for two letters "vav" and "tzaddik" that are found in that Name and I could not find them. And from what was understood, he already knew the secret of the entire aforementioned Name — only these two letters "vav" and "tzaddik" mentioned he was not yet able to incorporate into the matter in which he wished to clothe that Name.