Brother, hold yourself. Do not let up. Make yourself fresh, as though today you were born. Gird up your loins like a mighty one, my dear brother. Be strong and brave and be happy and rejoice and trust in the power of the Elder of Holiness, the Elder of the Elders. For he walks before us at all times and in every generation. Even if we already have been snared as we have been snared and stumbled as we have stumbled; even though we ourselves are guilty. Even so happy are we, happy are we [ashreinu, ashreinu], thousands and tens of thousands of times without number, that we merited to what we merited, that we have come into this world at this time when there is such a light of lights, such a novelty of novelties....Such awesome teachings, sermons, and Stories, that have no example like them. And we have neither mouth or faculties to explain even the smallest amount of them. Even the least portion of them, a thousand or thousands or tens of thousands, until the place where these words reach, in the highest places in the Heavens. But also in their simplest form they vitalize all the souls with eternal life at all times. Delve into them and delve into them, into every lesson and sermon; certainly you will be able to vitalize (and rejoice) yourself always, and to vitalize others as well.

When the person is in a terrible bind, and the forces of evil overpower him, as they do, until he has no where to turn either right or left, until it appears that he has no hope, G-d forbid, and that he is in the grips of pressure and the constrictions on his soul; then turn to Hashem Yisborach from the bind. Even if he only turns himself to Hashem Yisborach like a hair's breadth, this is very precious in the eyes of Hashem Yisborach. And the letters of MeiTZeR [constriciton] are rearranged to form TZeMeR [wool], an aspect of the thread of wool that whitens the sins on Yom Hakippurim.

The True Tzaddik always finds merit in Israel, even in the most unworthy and the least of them, because in all of them can be found many good hairs, meaning the extent that they draw themselves occasionally from bad to good like a hair's breadth. And those hairs gather together and are weaved and woven and made into the light of the holy Tzitzis [fringes], which are an aspect of extremely high and awesome kindness, the root of all the Thirteen Traits of Mercy, from which are pardoned all the sins and transformed into merits.

Know and believe that not one good point and no single simple movement is ever lost, and even just a general arousal to holiness and a good thought are never lost, for as soon as one is awakened with a certain awakening, and all the more so when he does some act of holiness, then immediately the True Tzaddik, who works for the rectification of the souls of Israel, grabs it and brings it into the place that he brings it to, for the sake of the wondrous and awesome building that he labors to build, in order to bring into there all the outcasts in the world. And not one of them will be left outside. And through this great delight is created Above, without measure.

Seeking your peace, with feelings of love and yearning.

The Author,
Yisroel D. Odesser