The delight of my eye and heart, Mr. Zalman Shazar, pleasant to everyone. The might and strength of Hshem will be your strength, and will strengthen your heart with all forms of power, to hasten greatly to skip over what you must in order that you be able to draw onto your mind and wisdom illumination from the melody and song of wonders that transcends nature, that comes forth from the harp of 72 strings of the Tzaddik, that will be revealed in the future at the time of the End of Days by our Righteous Messiah. Through this heresy and false faiths are destroyed and nullified, and through this everyone will return to the Truth and will draw near to Hashem Yisborach and His Torah, and the whole world will be filled with knowledge to know that Hashem is G-d. Peace and all good for length of days.

My dear and beloved brother, how much has my joy increased since I have merited to see your handwriting, strong and filled with affection and faithful blessings, dearer to me than thousands of gold and silver. I have requested from you, my dear friend, to review the words that I have written to you until now, and that the books of our Teacher, may his memory be for a blessing, always be on your mind, and to study them with precision. For surely you will find in every word all types of sweetness, and surely you will be able to vitalize yourself always with them, even in the depths of the darkness of all sorts of spiritual travails. Do not let it seem evil in your eyes that I have not written to you in a long time, for Hashem knows my heart, for I surely have yearned with consumption of my being to broaden our communication and to travel with you in the Upper Gan Eden [Paradise] of the Tzaddik every day. However my mind is not clear because of betrayals of time that have surrounded me, as is known to you sligh tly. And if Hashem will desire to expand my mind, then for sure I will make myself strong and brave with all my soul, to inform you at all times awesome news about the salvations and powerful kindnesses that Hashem has done with us in these latter days, at the end of this final and bitter exile, through the True Tzaddik, who is the fortress of our final hope. Until that even now, after all the bitterness and great destruction that we have caused, our main consolation and hope is the wondrous kindnesses, that are the aspect of very high and hidden intellect, the roots of the Torah, which are above the Torah, that "The Flowing Stream, the Source of Wisdom" [i.e., Rebbe Nachman of Breslov; see Proverbs 18:4] draws upon us in order to give life to all the fallen souls that have multiplied greatly in these generations. It is upon us to rejoice and to dance with a full heart, with great joy, that we have merited to know of the one who works for our eternal rectification in every generation. And woe be to those who argue against and oppose this one who works to rectify our souls at all times. And even though they dispute as they do and scorn as they do, even so in the end the Truth will be revealed to all until all distribution of honor will be to the Truth, and then certainly everyone will run to serve Hashem in Truth and to draw near to the True Tzaddik, who is the main perfection of the Truth.

I seek your peace and salvation and bless you with instructive blessings for a kosher and happy Festival [Passover]. I await and look forward to seeing you today to rejoice with us together over our happiness.

The Author,
Yisroel Dov Odesser