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In honor of Mr. Zalman Shazar, my eye and heart. May you be written and sealed well for a good and long life and for peace without end.
You must always remember the great level of your lofty soul, gentle and very high in her upper root. To have mercy on her, to decorate and beautify her and to polish her with the supreme and awesome brightness of the Tzaddik, to save her from the snare of exploitation and the hall of exchanges that switch and damage greatly, and to behave in the manner of the holy kingdom of the true king's son, who was exchanged. [Please see Rebbe Nachman's Story: The Exchanged Children.]
The holy days of Elul [the month preceeding Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year] already have arrived, the days of mercy and forgiveness, and you now need to return and begin anew to yearn and to long with strong desires to remain on the holy Rosh Hashanah fixed with the holy gathering of the True Tzaddik. And do not separate yourself from them all the days of your life.
When a person wants to come close to Hashem Yisborach and to return in repentance, he must endure thousands and tens of thousands of descents without measure, and he must be a strong warrior to strengthen his heart each time not to abandon his place from any descent in the world, however it will be. And this is the essence and the foundation that everything depends upon: never to fall in his mind, and to strengthen himself always even if he is as he is, to believe with perfect faith that there is no descent in the world. For in every place you can find Hashem Yisborach, an aspect of "And if I make my bed in Hell, behold You are here."
The one who prays always for your peace and success, and who wishes you and your household a good and sweet year, a year of redemption and salvation.
Yisroel Dov Odesser