It is good to thank Hashem who arranged with His wondrous Providence that I succeeded to recognize the greatness and preciousness of your great stature after many years that I heard about your good name from my close friend, Reb Meir Anshin. And from then on I greatly desired to meet with you and I did not succeed in this. But your strong yearning for the Truth was the cause of Hashem arranging with His wondrous kindness that I merited to see him and to connect with him with the love of truth. To my knowledge there are hidden in this hints with a number of postive implications. Although in truth I am a completely simple person; however a small piece of wood can ingite and burn a very large piece. And if however we are at the bottom point of the most humble level, as we know about ourselves that our faces are not pretty at all, for a storm wind and a great cloud storm and darken greatly, especially in these our days. However Hashem Yisborach already introduced a cure and total rectification through the rivers and streams of the true wisdom of the True Tzaddik. And whoever will hide himself in the shade of his wings and will go in the ways of his teachings, and will cast away from himself all other wisdoms, and will throw away his intellect completely, as though he has no intelligence except for what he receives from the Tzaddik, certainly he will have a complete rectification, in ultimate perfection, no matter who he is.

Rabbeinu Hakodesh [Our Holy Teacher], of living memory, before he died was sighing and shouting greatly with strange voices and sighs and great shouts about the heresy and atheism that in the future would spread throughout the world. For this is the greatest evil of all the evils and miseries in the world; there is nothing more evil than this, may Heaven protect us. And then his followers were sighing before him greatly and were saying: "What shall we do and to whom will he [Rabbeinu] leave us?" And he answered, "What are you worrying about, since I am going before you, etc." And he revealed his thoughts both explicitly and implicitly that everything that he did with his followers was for both those who are here and those who are not here, meaning even for the future generations. And he said, "Just strengthen yourselves together with unity and friendship and the love of friends, and then you will be kasher [proper] people, and not just kasher but you will even be Tzaddikim and good. For Hashem Yisborach will surely help me that my wish will be fulfilled as I have always wanted. For with G-d's help I have finished and I shall finish according to His will for sure." And he said that whoever endeavored to join with one of his followers "certainly will be a truly kasher person, and not just kasher but even a complete Tzaddik, the way I want."

On the last Rosh Hashanah before his passing, Rabbeinu Hakodesh of blessed memory said the awesome Torah Tiku Tochacha [Likutay Moharan Part Two, Torah Eight], which explains that one must seek and search very very much for the holy spirit and prophetic spirit of the true Tzaddik and Leader, and that the main perfection of the Faith, which is the essence of Judaism, is through him spcifically. And then after saying the above mentioned Torah, he warned me expressly to write this great admonition that every man in the world, from great to small, needs to be very careful about this. And we need to warn and to remind them about this thousands of times that they will remember greatly every single day to search and seek greatly after the Tzaddik, the True Leader, who has the spirit of prophecy and holiness with which he is able to rectify truly for eternity. Certainly the search and request is not after the physical body of the Tzaddik, rather after his holy spirit, through which is his main rectification. And this one must search and seek always however you look at it: if you have not yet found the Tzaddik at all, certainly you need to go on your hands and knees to search and seek with all your might throughout the whole world from one end to the other all the days that one lives on the face of the earth, perhaps you can find your soul's eternal life for even one day or one moment before your death. And if you already think that you found the TrueTzaddik, for sure you need to search and seek even more. And it is possible that one is next to the Tzaddik and still his light is darkened from him and that he doesn't feel the pleasant truth of his holy advice. And because of this he is far from his rectification. And for this one needs great effort and a lot of searching until one finds him. And if he truly searches surely he will find him.

Through drawing near to the True Tzaddik the poison of the serpent is stopped. And the opposite: through a false leader the poison gains strength. There is a Tzaddik who is so great in stature that he doesn't envy any other tzaddik, not in this world and not in the next. Just Hashem Yitborach, akin to: "he was jealous for my jealousy" [stated about Pinchas avenging Hashem's honor in killing Zimri; Numbers 25:11].The main greatness of the Tzaddik in his lifetime and after his death is that he draws down and illuminates the very highest light and life force, meaning revelation of the blessed G-d, even in this physical world. Even into the very deepest and coarsest places, until he is able to elevate even all those who have fallen and become extremely vulgarized. Until the verse is fulfilled: "And every creature will know that You created him..." [Rosh Hashanah Prayerbook: Amidah]. Through drawing near to the Tzaddik we merit to Faith and heresy is nullified.

The main connection is Love: that one should love the Tzaddik with a complete love, that his soul should be connected with his soul. One should be very careful to expel from within himself the spirit of foolishness, that his heart is filled with the foolish spirit that clings to him. And by attaching to the True Tzaddik, meaning that he loves the Tzaddik with soul-love, through this he expels very quickly the foolish spirit from within himself. And through this he merits a broken heart. The True Tzaddik compared to the world is like the head. And the world is like the body. And the main rectification is when we merit to be close and connected to the Tzaddik, as the body is with the head, for the main vitality of all the limbs comes only from the head.

We must seek and search very very much, in each and every generation, for the True Tzaddik, with every type of search and with literal self-sacrifice. For the main vitality and existence and perpetuation of every member of Israel is only through the True Tzaddik. And through Israel's search until they find him and draw near to him, through this we merit the Complete Redemption. And the song that will be sung in the future. Happy is the one who merits and waits and truly yearns for this.

Through dispute against the Tzaddik, we forget the Torah. The Coming of the Messiah depends on drawing near to the Tzaddik. The proliferation of secular wisdom, particularly the wisdom of philosophy, causes very very great damage to the whole world, more than snakes and scorpions and all sorts of evil and destructive beasts that are in the world. For they damage the Holy Faith, which is the foundation of everything. Through speaking against the Tzaddik, philosophy becomes strengthened in the world. And also the opposite: the main elevation of the soul and its perfection is when the souls of Israel are collected into one unity [meaning with the True Tzaddik]. Through love and peace and unity amongst Israel, through this all the harsh judgements are sweetened. And all the heresy is nullified. And natural wisdom is supressed and eradicated. And there is revealed faith in the desire of the world to know and to believe that everything happens only through the Will of the Blessed One. Through the peace that exists between people, who analyze and explain to each other the Truth, every person will throw away the falsehood of the idolatry of his money and will draw himself near to the Truth. And according to the Peace that is in the Generation, so can they draw the whole world to the Service of the Blessed One and to serve Him in unity, and everyone will throw away their gods of silver and gold and will pray to the Lord alone.

The value of the gathering of Israel, who hold themselves with the True Tzaddik with great love and unity, and with the essence of true peace, and who draw onto themselves at all times an illumination of his holy wisdom, and who gather together and meet at all times to talk with each other about Fear of Heaven and about the illumination of the holy wisdom that the Tzaddik mentioned above endeavors to shine upon them: this holy gathering is very precious and exalted and through it will be the Redemption speedily in our days and will come the Messiah who will repair everything in perfection.

Through the truth the world is protected from all destructive forces. The Truth redeems from all travails. When there is truth there is peace. When there is not truth there is not kindness. Through truth one merits to an eternal name. One who guards himself from falsehood is always victorious. Jerusalem will not be rebuilt until there will be peace between Israel. And the Holy Temple will not be rebuilt until arrogance disappears. I request your forgiveness that I have not yet sent you the holy books. For I was ill and suffered difficult afflictions--G-d spare us--and for sure everything is for the best. Even now I am still very weak. And I struggled with all my strength to write a few holy words that have within them the power to sustain and restore the heart. Since the time we parted I have not forgotten you, for your love is engraved in the depths of my heart with great and eternal love. And I yearn and desire for you always to connect with you as brothers dwelling together. I pray for you always that you will merit to see the splendid light of the holy sun that shines now in the world, and to pass on and disperse the clouds that darken the sunlight. In a manner that we shall merit to leave the darkness for the light, from darkness to great light, and as the light of the morning shines upon us, the sun of charity and healing in its wings. With feelings of honor and preciousness behold I seek your peace and the peace of your dependents.

Yisroel Dov Odesser
Tiberias