IBAY HANACHAL

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


LETTER SEVENTY-FOUR

With G-d's Help
21 Tammuz 5725

In honor of the President of Israel, my eyes and heart, Mr. Sh. Z. Shazar, who is beloved in the eyes of Hashem like a wife to her husband, because of the great force of his desire and yearning to bind himself to the true King and Sage, who exists forever and shields Israel to raise them up from the belly of hell, from the deepest depths of descent, from the essence of utter physicality, higher and higher than all spirituality. May Hashem shield you and cure and heal you and your household in perfection in body and soul.

The main glory and greatness of the kingdom is through humility specifically. And the more humble the king is the more his kingdom spreads out. For this is the way of the kingdom: each time it must put humility before its honor and greatness. In the place of your greatness there I find your humility, to come and to speak before you that which Hashem will put under my quill.

In the future The Holy One Blessd Be He will avenge the vengeance of his People from those prophets of falsehood, who fill their stomachs with honor and arrogance, and display thenmselves like Tzaddkim of the generation. And they hunt precious souls and crush them and tear them to pieces, with a leg of arrogance and falsehood, and they blind the eyes of Israel from seeing the light of the true Leader, who draws down, reveals, and illuminates the light of Hashem to everyone in the world, from generation to generation for eternity!

Know, my brother, and believe that from the moment of the beginning of your existence in your mother's womb it was decreed upon you by the Creator that you would be President over Israel in this orphaned generation, in order that you have mercy on the People of Hashem, with true mercy. And that with your great and straight intellect and your polished and glorious tongue you would teach the People the awesome Truth, unique in the world, that Hashem has put before your eyes, with many amazing reasons for seven years, and that you would open and illuminate the darkened eyes and hearts of Israel so that all of them would see the light of the true Tzaddik, hidden, stored away, secreted, and concealed from the eyes of everyone. Who is the main life-force and existence of the whole Creation and from whom will sprout the complete Redemption for the People Israel and for the whole world, so that all will know Hashem.

We already have spoken somewhat concerning the matter of our bond of friendship and love, that truly there cannot be found in all the world people who are brothers, faithful and true like us. This was from Hashem, from Heaven, in order that we merit to publicize and make known the name of the true Tzaddik in the whole world. Upon this only depends our whole main hope and rectification in completion. We need to guard ourselves greatly so that our love not become blemished, G-d forbid, even a hairsbreadth.

The Author


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