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Also at the beginning of that winter, even before the Rav of Savran wrote the aforementioned letters, the Rav had commanded his people to attack Moharan"as's livelihood [parnasah] and undermine it. For in the times before the machlokes, there were many people in the New beis midrash who would supply Moharan"as's livelihood, because of the great love with which they loved him — since he had greatly aroused their hearts to the service of Hashem Yisborach and to devotion of heart during prayer, until they literally split the heavens with their communal prayer every single day, morning and evening. Were it not for the aforementioned machlokes and persecutions, we would already have merited to be redeemed through this. And through their abundant persecution of Moharan"as and his people — very greatly, to break and destroy them and their livelihood to the very end — only five men in Breslov withstood the trial and remained in their service of Hashem Yisborach as before. But the majority of the group in Breslov could not be returned to their service; even after Hashem Yisborach helped Moharan"as and gave him rest from all his enemies on every side, through His decree. And despite Moharan"as's za'l dire straits in his livelihood at that time — through the aforementioned Rav — Hashem Yisborach nevertheless arranged that there should be found a man, R' Yitzchak of the village of Shervitz, who had been drawn close some years before to Moharan"as and to the rest of the people of Rabeinu za'l — through the man Moshe Hinkes himself, for he was of his family and dwelt with him in the business of the mill which was in the aforementioned village near Breslov. When the aforementioned R' Yitzchak came to Breslov, he would lodge in the house of the aforementioned Moshe; and Moshe himself had told him of all the great and wondrous things he had seen from Rabeinu za'l, until he drew close as mentioned. And afterward, when the storm-wind of the dispute erupted and the aforementioned [Moshe] turned into an opponent, there remained at least one point in Moshe — that he did not wish to push away R' Yitzchak from his livelihood. And when bringing the flour from the mill to the city of Breslov, R' Yitzchak arranged intentionally that his entry would be in the middle of the night; and at the beginning of entry into the city, there lived R' Leibtze — who was one of Moharan"as's people — and R' Yitzchak would knock at his window for him to come out, and would hand over to R' Leibtze, from the flour account, a sack of flour for the house of R' Leibtze to give to Moharan"as. And in the morning, the sack of flour was carried to Moharan"as's house. And the aforementioned R' Yitzchak supplied him and his household with all the flour they needed. And Hashem Yisborach also arranged yet further wondrous circumstances regarding his livelihood.