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My bone and flesh, Mr. Zalman Shazar, who is connected with strong ties to the wondrous tree, very holy and awesome, that is the True Tzaddk, who stands over us as a shelter and a shield for every generation. Who sustains and strengthens our souls with all sorts of smells and scents of his awesome teachings. Happy are you that you merited to know of the Master of Wonders, all of whose words are wondrous, incomprehensibly wondrous wonders, to destroy and to nullify all the heresies and false faiths and to draw near and to bring close the whole world to Hashem Yisborach.
The main purpose and perfection is just to serve Hashem with complete sincerity, without any clever ideas at all. For there are investigators who say that the main goal is to pursue their philosophies and alien wisdoms, and they consume their days in this world to study and to comprehend the enlightened wisdoms and that is the purpose of life for them. But in truth the main attainment of the purpose of existence and the World to Come is only through Faith and carrying out the commandments. To serve Hashem with complete sincerity and simplicity, and through this itself we merit to what we merit ("the eye has not yet seen, etc."). But really the main grasping of the purpose of existence is only through Faith and sincerity specifically, that is: fear of G-d and the active commandments with complete simplicity. And through this itself we merit to what we merit.
Prayer can change nature, and the wisdoms and philosophies, that go according to nature, are nullified. The philosophers and heretics explain the whole Torah through their clever ideas and heresies. And even the active commandments: they explain everything through their intellectual comprehension, and they deny the active commandments. Happy is one who knows nothing about them at all. And their main subjugation is through the True Tzaddik, extremely great with outstanding stature, whose main idea is prayer, for prayer changes nature.