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In honor of the President of Israel, my heart and flesh, Mr. S.Z. Shazar, who is prepared to come through fire and water for the ultimate Truth, beloved to him with thick love, without end or boundary. And who merited to be a faithful servant for the Tzaddik, the true King over all Israel for all generations. Who has revealed wondrous and awesome new things, about which there is no tongue in the world that can describe their compelling, lofty, and exalted value and level, and their holiness and their power. With them he gathers together and brings inside to Hashem Yisborach even all the alienated and completely evil people, and reveals His Divinity and Kingdom eye to eye to all the inhabitants of the world. How good and how nice is your portion! Peace and all good.
In honor of your completing your 74th year, behold I am sending you herein, as my blessing and gift of my heart, the long life of the Beggar who is completely blind to the world. And who has no vision of this world at all. For the whole world does not count to him as the flash of an eye.
And the good life of the Deaf Beggar, who boasted about his utterly great distance from this world. And who is completely deaf to hearing the voices of this world, all of which are deficient. For the whole world does not count to him to hear their deficiencies. Look well at the awesome Story of the Seven Beggars [in Rebbe Nachman's Stories] and stand shaking and silent to see such light. Our Teacher, may his memory be for a blessing, spoke much about the idea of life, that everything is called life by the world, but really the main life is to merit to renew one's days to start to come near to Hashem Yisborach. To serve Hashem each time anew. And not to fall to the decrepitude of the side of evil, as though one already has aged in his sins and actions that he is used to doing, until it is impossible for him to abandon them. Just strengthen yourself to begin to live renewed each time in Hashem's Service, and do not fall from anything. And do not truncate your spirit due to the confusions and weakening of the m ind, as though, G-d forbid, there is no hope due to of the evil deeds that you have done until now. For you must not look at all this at all, for there is no despair in the world at all. And however it is, even if you already have fallen without measure, even so there is no despair in the world at all.