My heartfelt brother: don't be afraid. G-d is with you, near you, loves you. TheTzaddik calls and shouts to us in a very strong and deep voice: "Gevald! Do not let yourself despair! There is no such thing as despair! There is a matter in which everything is transformed for the good!" Dear heartfelt brother: Look well and contemplate the great and powerful miracle and awesome kindness that the Master of Wonders has done for us in a time of darkness like this. Who has opened our eyes to see this point of ultimate truth, that is impossible to hide from our minds in any manner: that we have merited to be in the portion of the True Tzaddik, the new, great, and awesome light...

Even if the war is long and very fierce. And the great provocations that they provoke us with are without measure, and our deeds are as they are. Until we have fallen wondrously to the greatest depths of the seas. Even so Hashem Yisborach will finish His with certainty and not a single one of all those thoughts of repentance that come to a person in the days of his life is lost. Even though we do not yet merit proper repentance. And even if the Satan overcomes him afterwards even more and he falls down more and more, G-d forbid, even so whenever he is aroused occasionally with the smallest thought of repentance like a hairsbreadth,this is never lost. And in the end he will be repaired through this, through the convocation of his thoughts of repentance. In the strength of the True Tzaddik, the leader and merciful one, who justifies all Israel and looks at only the good that is in each member of Israel. And he gathers and finds all the good points that are in everyone, even like a hairsbreadth. And makes from them wondrous vessels and tubes to draw down Divine comprehnsion through them to each person, even to those who have fallen and descended greatly, to enlighten them that G-d is still with them and near them and that this is their main hope and rectification. The main salvation comes only through faith. and the trait of faith is according to the Leader of the generation. One must see to it to fill up the faith through the illumination from the Tzaddik, who is the generalization of the Seven Shepards [the seven seminal leaders of Judaism: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and David]. For he shepards the faith to fix and complete it. And for this reason he is called a shepard. As in Psalms 37: "And shepard faith." And the whole main faith of Israel he brings to the generation. And it is impossible to draw near to this Tzaddik except through advice, as our Sages of blessed memory stated: "be fierce like a leopard." For there are shepards on the side of evil. And they also are famous in their generation and their main dominion is through fierceness. And they are like dogs in their fierceness, as in (Isaiah 56): "And the dogs of fierceness are the shepards." As in: "the face of the generation is like the face of the dog."

Therefore, it is impossible to be saved from them, from their dominion, except through fierceness. To stand up against their fierceness. And then: "You lead with Your fierceness to the splendid place of Your Holiness" [Exodus 15:13], meaning that through fierceness one may enter into holioness. I shall conclude and say peace from the depths of my heart. A continuation will follow.

Yisroel Dov Odesser