My heart and yearning, Mr. Zalman Shazar, who roams in the field of the Tzaddik, to search for and to gather his sermons and teachings, which are paths and avenues and broad roadways through which to grasp and to recognize the Blessed Creator. Blessing and peace for long life.

You need to pay attention to remember well to believe in yourself. That the root of your soul is great and high and very precious. And she is from the root of the true King's son. Except that she descended to the earthiness and physicality of this world, to places far beyond the boundary of holiness. So that specifically through this you will desire and yearn to dig, to escape, and to flee with all your strength to the Tzaddik, who conquered the ways of repentance and broadens them. And who draws in true advice and proper and wondrous remedies, until you will come to the source of your soul. And you will merit to return to Hashem, and He will have mercy on you!

Even if the person has violated what he has violated. And has fallen to the deepest depths without end. Also there Hashem Yisborach can be found. And He constricts Himself, and hides Himself, in his wondrous and powerful ways and reminds him all the time, with many many different hints every day and in every place, in order that he return to Him. And the main thing is that he try with all his strength to attach to the True Tzaddik. In order that he merit through him to perfect faith, which is the principle and essence of the entire Torah, and then for sure he will have hope forever, whatever will be!

Certainly this was from Hashem, that He brought to you, with amazing Providence, with many types of hints and transformations, the Tzaddik, the great man, the true man of kindness, in whose awesome teachings you can find everything you seek. And there is no fall or descent in the world that you cannot rise out of from there. But also your powerful desire and burning heart for the truth merited you to this. Look with an eye for the truth. And pay careful attention to this, until all the lights and remedies of the Tzaddik will shine upon you. Happy is your portion and your lot! The main creation of the Heavens and earth was just for this: that the person should start each time from the begining. As though he was born today. And as though today is the begining of his start!

Our Teacher, may his memory be for a blessing, warned greatly that it is forbidden to be old. Meaning start each time anew and think each time that one still has no existence in the world at all. And that he wants to start to prepare himself that he should have an existence in the world. And even one who is very old and still has not begun at all to return [to G-d], and he is very far from the holiness of the Torah, as he is far. And even if he has transgressed the entire Torah, thousands and tens of thousands of time. He should not say in his heart that he already has become old is his ways, until it is impossible for him to change. Just all the days that he lives on the face of the earth, until the day of his death, all the time that his soul is inside him. All the time that he can move still one limb. He should strengthen himself to teach himself every time and to begin each time anew, to prepare himself to have an existence in the world. And he should strengthen himself to start a new beginning, whatever is possible, small or large, and vitalize himself with the least amount that he still merits to touch the holiness of Israel. For no small movement, or sigh, or cry, or yearning for holiness, even in the deepest pits, is lost forever. And if he will be strong in this, certainly Hashem Yisborach will help him to draw near and to return to His Blessedness. And all the preparations and desires and yearnings and passions and slight efforts that he had to draw near to Hashem Yisborach, all will gather together to help him!

All the lusts and evil traits of the person embitter his life. For through them the person is as though he errs in the wilderness literally, in a place of wasteland, void, and darkness. And all this is impossible to fix except throught he TrueTzaddik, who is the foundation of the world! The heart of the Israeli man, in its innermost place, certainly burns always for Hashem Yisborach and for his Torah in truth. But the Satan and the evil wisdoms overpower each time against the good in the person and want to take him out of both worlds through his lusts and vanities. And the more that he digs and struggles against him, he overpowers even more. Therefore it is a very great and long battle. But even so certainly the person would overcome the evil, except for the biggest obstacle, which is the old and foolish king, the defiled one wise in evil. An aspect of Bila'am. [An evil Biblical character. See Numbers 22:1-25:9] Who, because of the vast poison of his evil lusts, especially the lust for adultery, had a vulgar and haughty spirit and an evil eye, etc., which is an aspect of jealousy, lust, and honor-seeking. [See Chapters of the Fathers 4:28] And not just did he err so greatly and defile himself so much, but his evil and defiled spirit even enticed and led him astray, until he stood against the True Tzaddik, the aspect of Moses our Teacher. And he was very jealous of him and wanted to hide and conceal his light completely from Israel. And from him come all the afflictions and exiles of Israel and all the damages and flaws from then until now, in this our dark and bitter generation. But many are the thoughts in the heart of a person. And the advice of Hashem will prevail. And always He has the upper hand, and he finishes and vanquishes always, and lips of truth are always ready.

The author, who prays always for your peace and success in this and the next world. I wait and look forward to seeing you on Purim with joy and dancing and hand-clapping with the melody and song, "the Rose of Jacob, jubilation and joy, when they saw together the light of the Tzaddik" [liturgical Purim song].