IBAY HANACHAL

(Letters from Rav Oddesser to Zalman Shazar, former President of Israel)


LETTER TWENTY-THREE

With G-d's Help
The Night of the 13th of Shevat 5721
Tiberias

My dear heart, Mr. Zalman Shazar, venerable and pleasant, great peace.

How very wondrous is your love to me, how very sweet are your words to me, and how much you have vitalized me with you pleasant words, my beloved brother. I have seen that, thanks to G-d, the words of our Teacher, may his memory be for a blessing, are making such an impression on your delightful heart, and are vitalizing and restoring your soul greatly. Hope to Hashem that He will increase His kindness with you to grant you success and to make good your end from your beginning. Be strong and brave, my dear one, to make yourself happy with all your strength at all times, with all the words that we have received from the source of wisdom, both in the good points, and in that we have merited to know of such a light of lights. And in that "He did not make me a gentile." For happiness is a cure to all sorts of illnesses. Especially that there is already in the world the strength of the Tzaddik, the Beggar who was without hands, who cures the Princess, who is the aspect of the generalization of all the souls of Israel, with ten types of song! Accustom yourself every day to deepen your sharp and logical mind in the powerful kindness and awesome salvation that the Master of wonders has done with us and with all our People Israel also in these our days.

And He has sent us the True Tzaddik, complete in the essence of perfection, who has no perfection beyond him. Who is completely clean of sin. Who has not the slightest defect, even to the tiniest degree, even a hairsbreadth. Who draws in and reveals the free lovingkindness that sustained the world before the Giiving of the Torah. Through which is the main sustainence of the world even now, at a time when the world is distant from the Torah. For he finds the Blessed Lifeforce even in the places distant from the Torah. And all the evil in the world is pushed away and falls before him. And through this he gives life to all the simple people in the world. And even the gentile nations of the world and all the distant ones, who are lying in the pit of hell! The Tzaddik is himself an aspect of the hidden kindness mentioned above, who can sustain the world always, even if the world is distant as they are distant.

Seeking peace with love and yearning.

Yisroel Odesser


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