ALL EVIL FALLS BEFORE THE TZADDIK

With G*d's Help
The Night of the 13th of Shevat 5721
Tiberias

My dear heart, Mr. Zalman Shazar, venerable and pleasant, great peace.

How very wondrous is your love to me, how very sweet are your words to me, and how much you have vitalized me with you pleasant words, my beloved brother. I have seen that, thanks to G*d, the words of our Teacher, may his memory be for a blessing, are making such an impression on your delightful heart, and are vitalizing and restoring your soul greatly. Hope to Hashem that He will increase His kindness with you to grant you success and to make good your end from your beginning. Be strong and brave, my dear one, to make yourself happy with all your strength at all times, with all the words that we have received from the source of wisdom, both in the good points, and in that we have merited to know of such a light of lights. And in that "He did not make me a gentile." For happiness is a cure to all sorts of illnesses. Especially that there is already in the world the strength of the Tzaddik, the Beggar who was without hands, who cures the Princess, who is the aspect of the generalization of all the souls of Israel, with ten types of song! Accustom yourself every day to deepen your sharp and logical mind in the powerful kindness and awesome salvation that the Master of wonders has done with us and with all our People Israel also in these our days.

And He has sent us the True Tzaddik, complete in the essence of perfection, who has no perfection beyond him. Who is completely clean of sin. Who has not the slightest defect, even to the tiniest degree, even a hairsbreadth. Who draws in and reveals the free lovingkindness that sustained the world before the Giving of the Torah. Through which is the main sustainence of the world even now, at a time when the world is distant from the Torah. For he finds the Blessed Lifeforce even in the places distant from the Torah. And all the evil in the world is pushed away and falls before him. And through this he gives life to all the simple people in the world. And even the gentile nations of the world and all the distant ones, who are lying in the pit of hell! The Tzaddik is himself an aspect of the hidden kindness mentioned above, who can sustain the world always, even if the world is distant as they are distant.

Seeking peace with love and yearning.

Yisroel Odesser

ALL THE PEOPLES WILL RETURN TO G*D

Happy are you, for whom Hashem has done such great and awesome things.

Pleasant one of my heart and my life, whom Hashem has raised up and elevated to the highest Heavens, in order to merit him to the highest level, after which there is no level, that he magnify and sanctify in all the worlds the name of the Tzaddik, the faithful Shepard and true Merciful One, who gathers together all the alienated and lost from all the places that they have wandered to, and brings them under the wings of the Divine Presence [Shechina]. Happy are you that you have merited to this. May Hashem lengthen your days and shine into your heart the bright supremely hidden light of the ancient hidden Torah. The Tzaddik whom Hashem our G*d has sent to revitalize us in these our generations more than in his own life, to redeem us with an eternal redemption after which there is no exile.

One who is sad should give a present to the Tzaddik frequently. Through sadness a person becomes weak. One who is sad brings upon himself suffering, and by ruining happiness sicknesses come upon him. One who is not sad and always is happy certainly will be elevated. Drawing close to the Tzaddik gives happiness to the heart.

When you see that people act brazenly against the Tzaddik, know that certainly great wars will be aroused against that country. At night if you feel fear at the time of sleep, do not travel by day.

When people forget Hashem Yisborach and do not depend upon Him, this causes them to fear the gentiles. When Israel are united, the gentiles are afraid of them.

By taking advice from the Tzaddik, through this you will merit salvation. Through sadness comes disgrace. Happy are you that Hashem has done for you such great and awesome things. Hashem has lifted you up and elevated you to the highest Heavens, in order to merit you to the essence of the highest level, after which there is no level, that you lift up and magnify and make powerful with a very loud voice in all the worlds the name of the Tzaddik, the True King, who will conquer the whole world without a war at all, only through the sea of awesome wisdom that he reveals with his quill, through which he shines and draws the Divinity and Kingdom of the Blessed One to all the inhabitants of the world. And all of them, all of the peoples of the world, will come and convert and will accept Judaism and will give Hashem the crown of the kingdom. Until even all the most distant, all the peoples in the world, will come and convert and give to Hashem the crown of the kingdom, and all will accept the yoke of His kingdom to serve Him as one unity.

A PLACE FOR MY DIVINE SERVICE

With G*d's Help
7 Nissan 5732
Jerusalem

To the honorable President of Israel, the crown of my head, who has crowned his head with the crown of Truth, Mr. Sh. Z. Shazar, whom Hashem has chosen from all Israel, and has awakened his spirit and inflamed his heart like a burning fire, to spark and to ignite the hearts of Israel to the Flowing Spring, in whose great power all Israel will be rectified in perfection and all will be transformed to Hashem Yisborach. Even the totally distant will know Hashem and will give Him the crown of the kingdom. Peace and true life, long life.

All the days of my life will not suffice to praise and to exalt and to sing to Hashem about the greatly awesome kindness and the wonders that you have done with me, that you gave me true grace and love of truth and great mercy in your warm and pleasant heart. To stand at my assistance and to fight for me, with personal danger, the strong war against the Member of Parliament, M. Porush. Until Hashem aided you to subdue him. So that I shall have a holy abode to perform there the Divine service: Torah-study, prayer, and hisbodedus and dialogue between myself and my Maker. And now, after all the good and this awesome kindness that you did for me, I shall honor and rejoice you with good news and a blessing of congratulations for the new salvation, the great wonder, that was born to us in Tiberias on the night of Purim, before the reading of the Megillah [Scroll of Esther]. For the chief Rabbi of Tiberias, the Sage Meir Veknin, fufilled your request and your will completely and with a happy heart. He called me to his home and honored me exceptionally. And he said to me: "Know that I am giving you a gift for all the days of your life. The nicest and most beautiful room, on the third floor, in the new building of the Yeshiva at the Tomb of the Holy Tanniac Sage, Rebbe Meir Ba'al Haness [a colleague of Rebbe Akiva]. Also a bed and a new mattress and a bookcase." And he blessed the honorable President, may his glory increase, with great arousal and enthusiasm, that he helped him merit to this [to provide this room]. And he said the verse: "Happy is the People who have thus," that they have a President with such a precious and lovely soul.

Who can retell and describe the great wonder and the outstanding value of this lovely and nice mitzvah, through which the honor of Hashem has been magnified and endeared? And Hashem Yisborach has received from it awesome delights and contentment in all the worlds. If you only had come to the world just for this, it would have been enough. This amazing thing has been made known and publicized and has made a great commotion throughout the city of Tiberias, and all are praising and are amazed and are blessing the honorable President, may his glory increase, with all their heart and soul. Just now the donation of your heart for the sum of 100 Israeli lirot has reached my hands, and it has caused me great satisfaction and happiness. Thunderous applause and many thanks and blessings from the depths of my heart for this kindness and for all the benefits and many kindnesses that you do with me with all your strength, all the time and at every moment. May Hashem repay your good action and draw down upon you and upon your household salvation and mercy and peace and a good and long life of the holy and very awesome "Beggars". If you would know just a little of how greatly you vitalize me with the holy houses that you have toiled and endeavored so much over so that I can serve Hashem in truth with a complete heart, certainly you would be happy and strong to hold yourself fast with all your strength to the True Leader, the Flowing Stream, who is Moses-Messiah, who works also now to raise up even from annihilation to desire. And may Hashem Yisborach grant you all a kosher and happy Passover, and let us rejoice and be happy on it.

The Author

APPROACH THE TZADDIK

With G*d's Help
20 Teves 5723

My bone and flesh, Mr. Zalman Shazar, who is tied and attached to the holy and awesome tree, the True Tzaddik, who goes before us and bears us as the nursemaid carries the suckling. Happy are you that you merited to know about the Master of Wonders, all of whose words are amazing, incomprehesibly amazing wonders, to destroy and annul the false beliefs and atheism of the scholars of nature, who are the aspect of evil beasts that tread on and tear the souls of Israel. And who draws and brings near the whole world to Hashem Yisborach. Blessing and life and all good.

My beloved, my brother, whom I have loved with a true love, and you are rooted in the depths of my heart always, especially when I merit to break my heart and to pour out my prayer before Hashem Yisborach. And I have known that also your love is complete with me. And your soul is expiring to hear the good words from the mighty awesomeness of the True Tzaddik. And your heart is strong in Faith, on point of the truly chosen leader, on whom depends our Redemption and the bsalvation of our souls, and who is the essential foundation of our Judaism. And my great love for you that is in my heart, I am speaking with you for your benefit. My brother, my brother, my soul and my heart. When will you get up annd renew your days, to draw near to the Tzaddik with greater strength and vigor? Set your heart and settle your mind very well, and have pity and mercy on yourself. And hasten yourself to run on your hands and feet to hold onto the wings of the Tzaddik, in order that there be hope for your fate and plunder for your soul. With the salvation of Hashem in your hand are the book of prayers and sermons, and the awesome Stories, and all [Rabbeinu's] holy books. That are full of advice and counsel and paths for every person in the world and for every type of descent in the world. Hold onto them and turn them over and over. You have no better trait than them. Open your eyes and your heart and look at them with an eye for the truth and with sincerity to guard them and to fulfill them. And do not procrastinate from one day to the next, for who knows what a day can give birth to.

The Author

THE ARK OF TRUTH

With G*d's Help
22 Tammuz 5725

In honor of the Prseident of Israel, my eyes and heart, Mr. Sh. Z. Shazar, beloved in the eyes of Hashem like a wife to her husband. Because of the great force of his desire and longing to bind himself to the true King and Sage, who lives forever and shields Israel to raise them up from the belly of hell, from the utter depths of descent, from the extreme essence of physicality, higher and higher than all spirituality. May Hashem be a shield for you and cure and heal you and your household in perfection.

The main honor and greatness of the kingdom is precisely through humility. And the more humility the king has 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.

Hashem in His greatly hidden and secret ways and His methods that are hidden and concealed from every idea and every inquiry, has rained down upon the world a flood of fierce waters of heresies and atheism, from the cisterns of the Heavens, in these latter days. Until all the high mountains have been covered up, meaning the honored ones and the people of Hashem. And in His great pity He preceeded the cure and the salvation, and sent us a man like his heart, who found grace in His eyes, and He called his name Nachman, to say: this one will comfort us from our deeds and from the sadness of our hands. And He commanded us to build an ark of Truth and Faith. So that everyone who wants to be saved can come into its chambers and close its doors and hide in the shade of his awesome wisdom. For who will give praise and who will describe the exalted power of his might, who made wondrous with his wondrous wonders to prepare and to arrange sustainance and vitality for the people of his household and for all the souls of Israel, for every generation. That they may take delight and pleasure in the beuatiful splendor of the pleasantness of his teachings and his awesome stories, that were gathered from the field of most exalted wisdom, that have never yet been revealed in the world, that exist and are credible and help forever and for all eternity.

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 who display themselves like Tzaddikim of the generation and hunt down precious souls and tread on them and tear them to pieces, with a foot of arrogance anf falsehood, and they blind the eyes of Israel from seeing the light of the true Leader, who reveals and illuminates the light of Hashem to everyone in the world, for every generation for eternity.

Know and believe that from the moment of the beginning of your existence in your mothers'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 revealed before your eyes with many reasons and wondrous means for seven years. And that you would illuminate the eyes of Israel, so that all of them would see the light of the True Tzaddik, who is the main vitality and existence of the whole Creation, and from whom will sprout the complete Redemption for the People of Israel and for the whole world, so that all will know Hashem and will give Him the Crown of the Kingdom.

We already have spoken somewhat about the great value of our bond of friendship and love, that really there does not exist in the whole world people who are brothers, faithful and true like us. This was from Hashem, from Heaven, in order that we merit to inform and publicize the name of the true Tzaddik in the world, upon which depends our main existence and hope. We need to guard ourselves greatly so that our love not become blemished, G*d forbid, even a hairsbreadth. And it is proper for us to hold onto the Truth, with wondrous love, with greater exaltation and greater determination, at every moment always.

The Author

ATTACHING TO THE TZADDIK

With G*d's Help
Rosh Chodesh Shevat 5725

In honor of the President of Israel, my heart and life-force, Mr. Shneur Zalman Shazar, who has found grace in the eyes of Hashem. Who has given him a wise and understanding heart, to understand and to recognize the real Truth, bright and clear without any blemish at all. Who is the source of our healing and vitality. May Hashem draw upon you and your household salvation and mercy and a good and long life.

Due to the strength of the connection and the love, awesome and unique in the world, that Hashem has made between me and you, my heart is very close to you, and is drawn after you with great desire and powerful yearning, so much so that I see you always, every day and at every moment. For because of this strong love, I cannot bear at all not to see you always. And my soul carresses and hugs you with the words of my mouth, with warm prayers and supplications, from the warmth and depth of my soul, that Hashem should grant you success in everything you do. And the main thing is that you succeed with eternal success to bind yourself to the Truth, to the chosen true head, with strong desire and self-sacrifice, until you merit that through you the Truth will be publicized and revealed throughout the world. For upon this depends the main rectification of the world in perfection. Hashem Yisborach at first illuminates your great heart and your mind, so that you will have a broad intellect and a wise soul, and afterwards the light spreads out, until it will reach all the limbs, meaning to the heart of all Israel and to all the world.

The Author

BE STRONG IN OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

With G*d's Help
Erev Shabbos Kodesh [Eve of the Holy Sabbath]
43 Days to the Omer [counting ceremony between Passover and
Shavuos] 5719
Tiberias

My dear Mr. Zalman Shazar, who understands one thing from another: great peace.

You must pay attention to understand the subtle implications of our words, to receive hints from them about the matter of attaching to the Tzaddik, in whose great power even one who is distant and has fallen into a deep endless descent is able to draw near to Hashem Yisborach [the Blessed Lord]. Even if our deeds do not count nicely, and we have done what we have done, and damaged what we have damaged, and become estranged as we have, and have arrived to where we have, so that we have destroyed the House of Wisdom, and burned the Temple of Intellect, and exiled our knowledge to the place of exile; still Hashem Yisborach does His, and the kindnesses of Hashem [G*d] are not exhausted and His mercies do not cease.

One who goes in physicality all his days, and afterwards becomes fired up and wants to draw near to the Tzaddik who will lead him in the ways of Hashem Yisborach: at that point the trait of harsh judgement accuses him and does not leave him alone and arranges an obstacle for him. And the fool, when he sees the obstacles, turns back. But one who is intelligent draws himself near precisely at that point. For in truth Hashem Yisborach himself is hidden in this obstacle. Hashem Yisborach does not send any person obstacles except according to his strength and ability to stand up to them, if he wants to overcome them properly. Therefore really there is no obstacle at all, for all the obstacles are only in the sight of the eyes. And the main thing is to have a strong and courageous heart, and then nothing obstructs him from drawing near to the Truth, for every [obstacle] is nullified for one who makes his heart strong and courageous in Hashem Yisborach!

People have more power than the evil urge to obstruct and entice the person and to distance him from Hashem Yisborach and from the True Tzaddik. Therefore one who wants truly to draw near to the Truth needs to be very courageous against their evil brazenness, and let his forehead be strong against theirs, not to be embarrassed by the scoffers, and to think that there is nothing in the world except he alone, unique in the world, and not to look at any person who obstructs him. To be like "Abraham was one," [from the collected teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, Likutay Moharan, Introduction to Part Two], as though he is alone in the world. And through this he can merit to find Hashem Yisborach through searching and seeking alone, in that he requests, and seeks, and searches for His Blessed Glory. And precisely by overcoming such a powerful concealment, afterwards His Blessed Glory is elevated and exalted even more, and in the end everything is transformed for the good and the world is completely rectified!

Because of the preoccupation of Erev Shabbos Kodesh [the preparations for the Holy Sabbath], it is imperative to conclude. Your beloved friend, who is connected to your heart every day always, who truly entreats for your peace and welfare.

Yisroel Dov Odesser
Tiberias

THE BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP
1.

With G*d's Help
28 Tishray 5727

In honor of the President of Israel, the joy of my heart, Mr. Sh. Z. Shazar, who has woven and bound himself to the Truth, to the True Tzaddik, the Master of wonders, wondrous wonders beyond comprehension, to heal and to vitalize us always, at all times, in every generation. In his great and awesome merit and strength may Hashem draw upon you healing in perfection, and may you merit to see the splendor of the revelation of the ultimate Truth.

My beloved, my brother, my soul and my flesh, whose pleasant love truly is resounding and fixed in my heart always. I have trusted in your great humility to open my mouth and to speak before you the words of truth that are in my heart. I have stood shaking and dumbstruck, and the pains and throes of birth have gripped me from the not-good tidings that you are in the hospital. My heart roars over your affliction and pain. I am suffering for you, my brother, beloved like my soul. My heart is certain about the kindnesses of Hashem and His wonders, that for certain He will have mercy upon you and upon His People Israel and that He will heal you speedily, a complete healing from Heaven, a healing of soul and a healing of body. The great and exalted and awesome power of the True Tzaddik, The Flowing Stream the Source of Wisdom, Rabbeinu [our Teacher] NA NACH NACHMA NACHMAN ME'UMAN, should stand for you and for your household as a shelter and a shield for eternity.

The Author

2.

With G*d's Help
22 Teves 5727

My heart and my soul and all my life-force and my longing, who longs and yearns to hear the word of Hashem from the True Leader, the unique chosen one of all the true leaders that were in the world. Who is the leader of our generation and all the generations for eternity. Who will repair us and all the estranged and lost, who have become completely alienated and who have exited from the category of the holiness of Israel, along with all the gentiles, with the essence of complete rectification, and will elevate all of them to the utter essence of the highest level. Happy are we that we are living in this time, that there is found in the world a new awesome and wondrous Truth like this, that has not yet been from the day of the creation of the world.

Blessing and a good life, healthy and pleasant and refreshing for length of days.

A joy and a restoration of the soul was your holy letter that I received today. How very pleasant to me is your precious letter, how very dear in my eyes are all your pleasant words, from a tongue that speaks truth from the depths of the truth that is in the heart. I am happy and rejoice over them, from every precious and pleasant treasure. Believe me my dear brother, my heart and my eye, that I read your holy and truthful words with great and powerful joy without limit. A number of times. With burning tears from the depths of my soul, due to the great happiness that I had from every word. In my seeing the powerful awesome strength of your pleasant heart: that whatever it endures at each time, even so you strengthen and fortify yourself to hold tightly onto the great and awesome power of the True Tzaddik. Happy are you that you have merited to this.

The Author

3.

With G*d's Help
13 Shevat 5727

In honor of the daughter of my eye and my heart, President of Israel, Mr. Sh. Z. Shazar, who has delved with the heights of his wisdom and increased his understanding to distinguish and to understand and to see the light of the True Tzaddik, to understand and to realize where is the real Truth, to hold fast to it and to unify with it with a perfect heart, with all his heart, and who desires and digs with all his strength to introduce it into the heart of all Israel. For only he, only he is our main redemption and salvation of our souls, in this impoverished and orphaned generation, in these our generations.

In honor of the daughter of my eye and my heart, President of Israel, Mr. Sh. Z. Shazar, to whom the Creator has given a proper and understanding heart, to understand and to see the light of the True Tzaddik, hidden and concealed so much from the eyes of the world, and to feel in his heart a little of the hidden hints and secrets and deep and sincere advice with which he will rectify us and all of Israel and will return the whole world to the good. Great peace.

Even if due to the great power of our amazing love, literally the love of David and Jonathan [see First Samuel 18-20] you do not leave my heart ever, all the days. As my master, with his honored and exalted wisdom, recognizes and knows well clearly that these words are truth. Still Hashem knows the sadness and pain of my heart that I have from the fact that I do not merit to write to you pleasant words, stored away in the treasury of the Tzaddik, upon which all our vitality and consolation depend. But the main reason is because of the weakness of my body, and the light of my eyes is not with me as before. And also because of my great distress from a number of incidents and hardships without number that have surrounded me from all sides, that is imposssible to describe or to explain. My mind is not clear for this. But even so, since I am yearning and longing so much, day and night with expiration of the soul, for your well-being and your recovery, which relates to the benefit of all Israel, Hashem has sent into my thoughts a strong thought to gird up my strength with all my might, with the last ounce of my strength, with self-sacrifice, to write often words that illuminate from the words of our Teacher and his holy and very awesome student, that are able to shine the light of G*d throughout the whole world, and to revive dead corpses like us today in these our generations. The matter of our bond is a great wonder. And it is an amazing benefit and salvation or us and for all the People Israel. And therefore I shall request that you give assistance and encouragement and strength to this by issuing me a receipt through the secretary for every letter that arrives. I have in this no ulterior motive of honor or vain-glory of vanity, G*d forbid. Just truly for the sake of Heaven alone, as already is known to you. It also is proper for us to yearn to see each other.

4.

With G*d's Help
11 Adar One 5727

In honor of the delight of my heart, Zalman Shazar.

Yesterday I merited to visit your dear and noble sister. May Hashem cure and heal her speedily, in the merit of our holy and awesome Teacher. And behold there was between us great happiness, as usual, and out of respect for me she ate all the foods of the afternoon meal.

I am very weak, and I am not in the line of health. And for this reason I have not yet arranged the introduction to the holy book. And my eyes are turned and looking at Hashem Yisborach, that He merit me to overcome all the stumbling blocks soon and to start and to finish the matter well, as your heart desires. The matter of our connection that is entirely truthful, pure, and bright, without any blemished thought of honor and glory-seeking, or money and similarly, G*d forbid, just truly for the sake of Heaven alone. To have mercy on Israel with true mercy, to publicize and to make known to all who is the King of honor, who is the True Leader in this generation, who is our main life-force and hope, our consolation and our redeemer, from generation to generation for eternity.

Your loving and faithful friend, who yearns always for your complete healing, in body and soul, which is good for all the People of Israel.

Yisroel Ber Odesser
Author of Ibay Hanachal [Y,B,O in Hebrew forms an acronym for the word IBAY]

CHANUKA :
THE TRIUMPH OF THE TRUTH

With G*d's Help
The Eve of Chanuka 5720 [1959]

My precious and dear soul, Mr. Zalman Shazar, who put his heart to interweave ["Shazar" in Hebrew] himself with the Ultimate Truth, that redeems from all sorrows, which the whole world needs very very much to accept, peace and all good.

That we light a Chanuka candle, each person in his own house, less than ten tefachim [approximately a meter] from the ground is because the Great Tzaddik brings us awesome rectifications until he illuminates us with Divine comprehension through channels that reach below to the very lowest levels, akin to being below one meter, a place to which the Shechina [the Divine Presence] has never descended. For in his great power he is able to illuminate even the most estranged and worst people, if they want to accept [from him]. An aspect of: "For if I shall sit in darkness Hashem is light for me." And this is the main mitzvah [commandment] of the Chanuka light, to light and illuminate the light of Truth in the world, so that everyone will merit to know where is the True Tzaddik, who is the chosen and true head amongst all the Tzaddikim. For the main miracle of Chanuka is that the evil kingdom, an aspect of falsehood, a slave, the serpent's poison, was subjugated and that the Kingdom of Holiness of Israel, who are the aspect of the King's son, the aspect of Truth, was strengthened and elevated. One should intend in lighting the Chanuka light that through this we shall merit to draw down the illumination of Truth and to draw near to the point of Truth always.

The one who yearns and desires to meet with you in love and joy with a true heart, who seeks your peace who prays for your peace and salvation and eternal success.

Yisroel Dov Odesser

THE DEEP WATERS OF THE HOLY FAITH

With G*d's Help
22 Nissan 5723
The Holy Jerusalem

My bone and my flesh, Mr. Zalman Shazar, who has sharpened his ears and heart to hear the amazing and awesome song and melody, supreme and choice, of the True Tzaddik. Through which he removes from our hearts all types of poisonous arrows. That are the errors and confusions of heresies and false beliefs. And he heals us completely. The King Messiah will sing this song in the future and through this will draw the whole world near to Hashem Yisborach and will fill the world with knowledge of Hashem.

May your light break forth like the dawn and your cure from Hashem quickly sprout forth.

I received your heartfelt blessing from the 8th day of Nissan 5723, with a check for the sum of 100 Israeli lirot. You vitalized my soul very greatly. And I rejoice with great happiness without limit over your strong desire to dig and to find the deep waters from which grows the Holy Faith.

May Hashem be with you and give you long life, good life. A life of true faith, which is the essence of the life.

DESPAIR DOES NOT EXIST !!!

With G*d's Help
8 Elul 5723

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

DO NOT BENEFIT FROM HONOR

With G*d's Help
The Fourth Day, 28 Iyar 5723

In honor of the President of the State of Israel, Mr. S. Z. Shazar, who is outstanding in the great preciousness of his exalted soul, that was hewn from a holy source, from the giants of Israel, pillars of the Torah, who turns his heart to hear the voice of Hashem. Who calls him with a great voice every day and every moment, that he hasten himself to flee to the True Tzaddik, who can repair him completely and return him to the ancient path on which walked his holy forefathers, may the memory of Tzaddikim be for a blessing.

A good sign and good fortune for blessing and life and endless peace to everything you have.

When someone from Israel receives new honor, then he needs a great effort and a great battle to gird himself with strength and power, like a strong and brave warrior, to nullify his own honor as nullity and nothing, against the Honor of Hashem Yisborach. And not to use the authority and honor for his own needs and pleasure, and not to take anything for himself from the honor. So that the honor not be for him like a servant with which to fill his lusts, G*d forbid. Rather he just should raise up his honor to Hashem Yisborach, who is the King of Glory, and to the True Tzaddik. So that through this honor and authority that he has received will grow and will be elevated the honor of Hashem Yisborach and the honor of the Tzaddik, the True Leader of all Israel for all generations, The Flowing Stream The Source of Wisdom, who draws the whole world to Hashem Yisborach, even those most distant in the worst type of estrangement. That through this is made precious and is elevated in perfection the Glory of Hashem Yisbo rach in all the worlds. For His light shines from one end of the world to the other, without limitation at all. For in every place, even in the most defiled air, His Truth illuminates the way to escape from there, through which His Blessed Glory is made precious and is elevated throughout all the worlds.

I surely shall rejoice in the salvation of Hashem and His powerful kindnesses, that He has orchestrated and arranged with His great mercies to have you chosen as President of the Nation after about five years passed during which you merited to blossom for the good in the holy and awesome garden of life of the True Tzaddik, the new light, stored away and hidden and extremely concealed. Who is the essence of life, who revealed wondrous and awesome new teachings (awesome and wondrous, unfathomably amazing wonders) that never before have been revealed in the world, in order to give us life to this day, even in the worst essence of total darkness that is in our generations, at the end of this last bitter exile. When Israel now are erring extremely after the vanity of all who have retreated from Hashem Yisborach and His Torah due to the poison of heresies and false beliefs. My brother my brother, my heart and my flesh! Now has come the time for you to strengthen your warm heart and deepen your thought to consider and to yearn, with the longing of your energetic desire, to accomplish your strong will and desire to show true mercy to Israel and to make known and to publicize the great and powerful strength, in all the worlds, of the name of the True Tzaddik who now can be found in the world. Who works to return the entire world to the good, who has the power to draw down a wondrous peace, even for the nations of the world. And through the broadness of the peace everyone will be transformed to the Faith of Israel and will subjugate themselves to us, and the Jews will rule over them with their desire and consent. The Messiah King will draw down and reveal the holiness of the mind of the True Tzaddik with a wondrous revelation and with a wondrous and true mind, with the essence of perfection, and through this everyone will go in the ways of repentance and will return to Hashem Yisborach. Even the nations of the world and the whole world will become filled with knowledge of Hashem. Actualize the desire of your heart, that burns like a fire unto the heart of the Heavens, to have true mercy on Israel (to spread out the good wellsprings of the Tzaddik throughout the world) and to make known and to publicize in all the worlds that there exists now, in our generations, such a True Tzaddik who has the power to return the whole world to Hashem Yisborach. That there exists now, in our days, a true and wise Tzaddik, awesome and amazing, who has the power to return the whole world to the good. And there exists today, in our days, a true wise man, awesome and exalted, who has revealed wellsprings of advice and rectifications and hidden kindnesses, without end or limit, that never have been revealed in all the days of the world. That purify and clean from all the dirt, from all the filth and defilements in the world. So that the whole world can come, clean and pure, to the Palace of the King and receive as a free gift the treasures that the King has prepared for them. Happy is one who merits this.

DO NOT BE OLD

With G*d's Help
6 Adar 5721
Tiberias

The perfection of all things is the Faith, and without the Faith, everything is lacking.

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 noexistence 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].

THE ESSENCE OF THE COMPLETE REDEMPTION

With G*d's Help
Evening of 15 Iyar 5724

In honor of the President of Israel, the delight of my heart, Mr. Sh. Z. Shazar, who yearns and longs for the awesome Beggar, with broad shoulders, who carries us out of all the places into which we have fallen to the aspect of being above space. Happy are you that you merited to this, with miracles and great mercy. Blessing, life, and peace.

Now, in these our generations, in which Israel has come to the ultimate level of descent and concealment, until we have fallen to such distant places into which Israel never before has fallen. And all this is due to the old and foolish king, who is the source of all defilement of heresies and atheism and false faiths of the princes of falsehood, who pursue honor and power and fight with impudence and brazenness to distance and separate the souls of Israel from the True Tzaddik, who is the main source and root of their life and salvation for all generations for eternity. And this is a very terrible crime, worse than all the most severe sins in the Torah. And just by this they have caused all the heresies and atheism, and all the afflictions and destructions that have come upon Israel. And through this they delay the Redemption, which depends only upon the attachment of all Israel to the True Tzaddik, who introduces into us holy and amazing faith, through which we merit to comprehend the Divine, even all the distant and completely alienated. For the whole essence of the Complete Redemption depends only on this: that the light of the True Tzaddik be revealed and shine in the whole world until all Israel will attach to him. For through a true connection to the True Tzaddik, shine all the amazing lights that in the future will shine through our righteous Messiah.

For the whole essence of the Complete Redemption depends only on this: that the light of the True Tzaddik be revealed and shine in the whole world in order to raise up the banner of the Tzaddik in the world, until all the souls of Israel will draw near to him. For through a true connection to the True Tzaddik will shine all the awesome lights that in the future will shine through our righteous Messiah. The True Tzaddik, of great stature, outstanding and powerful and very very high, in the essence of a stature that has no level beyond it, only he can accomplish all this.

The Author

DO NOT DESPAIR

My beloved and dear friend, Mr. Z. Shazar, who has put his heart to be drawn to the real Truth, that redeems from all the afflictions, happy is your portion. Blessing and peace and kindness for length of days.

Through the simple talk of the Tzaddik a great light is opened up, and then it is easy for people to grasp high wisdoms.

When the days already have come and the person has reached old age and the day starts to set, and when he has seen that most of his years have passed, then in most cases, when he wants to start to think about repentance and to come close to Hashem Yisborach in truth, the Satan becomes powerful and spreads himself out greatly to block him from the path of life, G*d forbid, and does not want to let him leave the lusts and their net that he is snared in. And then this is the main test of the person. Then he must look at himself carefully, at his fate and his end, and strengthen himself especially to tie himself well to the True Tzaddik, who is the aspect of Moses-Messiah, who encourages with very great encouragements, immeasurable, priceless, and innumerable, to become strong and to start each time anew, to come close to Hashem Yisborach as though he was born now. And not to fall from anything in the world. And the main thing is that he must strengthen himself against the idea of small mentality, that becomes very powerful against the person and wants to throw down his mind as though he has no more hope, G*d forbid. Just know and believe in the words of the True Tzaddik, who cried out with a great and strong voice: "for there is no despair in the world at all." For G*d's greatnessis unfathomable. And with the great mercy of the Blessed One, he can transform everything completely, from evil to good and from sins to merits, through repentance!

The words of the True Tzaddik, who strengthens us greatly always to take strength with good desires and yearnings for Hashem Yisborach, in everything that occurs to us, and who informs us that there is no despair in the world at all. These words we must be careful to put into our heart like dew and rain. For like the dew and the rain, that fall drop by drop of water onto the earth and afterwards wondrous plants grow from them, so too must we put these words well into the depth of our heart, until they will grow in our heart and will make good fruits. For we always must listen well to these words about taking encouragement in Hashem, and understand one thing from another, to understand well the hints of the Tzaddik, how much we must encourage ourselves always. For it is totally impossible to explain all the necessity of these words in detail, except by allusion, that shows you the way--on this path you should go and through this, etc.--and hints to take encouragement always in desires and longings and shouting and roaring that Hashem Yisborach sometimes has, and through this certainly one will merit in the end to the Complete Redemption, to return to Hashem Yisborach in truth! The main delay of the Redemption is only because of dispute. For in every generation there are great and prominent people who have the sparks of Dosson and Aviram [please see Numbers 16] in them. And they toil to separate people from the True Tzaddik, the aspect of Moses. And through this have come about all the afflictions and the destructions of now. Even so, "You Hashem are always exalted." For there also are found in each and every generation True Tzaddikim and proper people, who depend on the great choice Tzaddik and are happy to call on him and listen to his advice. And through this will come the Complete Redemption! Somtimes precisely when a person reaches a place very very low and far from the holiness of Israel, there precisely he will become aroused with a great arousal to Hashem Yisborach. And there are a number of reasons and ideas for this!

FAITH IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL

With G*d's Help
22 Nissan 5726

In honor of the President of Israel, my heart and my flesh, Mr. Sh. Z. Shazar, who seeks and peers and looks to see the real Truth, that is the wonder of wonders, wondrously wondrous, great and awesome without limit or boundary. That will conquer the whole world and will place into their hearts complete faith, pure, bright, and clear. Until all the false beliefs and the heresies will become nullified. And the peoples of the earth will accept Judaism and convert, and will say: "Hashem the G*d of Israel is King and His Kingdom rules over all." Great peace.

I rejoice and am happy in my heart when I see your fiery blessing and your heartfelt love and great kindness that you have multiplied to do with me, with the sum of 300 Israeli lirot. Many thanks. May Hashem repay your good deed. My eyes and my heart are raised to our Father in Heaven, until He will grant you and raise up your horn and your success and will guard you and your household from all sorts of illnesses, and will heal all of you in body and soul for length of days and good and pleasant years.

The whole main point of the Exodus from Egypt, and all the awesome signs and wonders that Hashem Yisborach has made for our Forefathers and our People, from the day of the Exodus from Egypt until today, in every generation: it is all for the holy faith, in order to merit complete faith, which is the essence of everything. And this is the main work of the person all the days of his life, and for this purpose the person has come into this world, in order to recognize Hashem, which is the goal of all the goals [of life].

The Author

FALSEHOOD WILL BE TRANSFORMED INTO ATTACHMENT

With G*d's Help
Midnight of the Third Day [to Shabbat]
25 Tishray 5720
Tel Aviv

My heart and soul, Mr. Zalman Shazar, who purifies and polishes his soul with the exalted and completely new wonders that were revealed in these generations. Peace and life and all good.

Even one who merits to find himself a true friend, who received from the True Tzaddik words of Truth that genuinely help his soul, even so still one needs great exertion and much searching until he can find and comprehend the truth of his holy advice, upon which depends the essence of his Judaism. For it is very difficult to help a person with free will, except with the very very awesome kindnesses of Hashem [G*d] that the True Tzaddik draws down all the time. But one needs for this at least some arousal from below, and therefore the task of working with people to draw them to the Ultimate Truth is very very deep: deep deep who can find it. And one needs for this much searching and seeking, both from the friend and from the student, and then if they truly will search, certainly they will find!

Rabbeinu [Our Teacher], may the memory of the Tzaddik be for a blessing, told Rabbi Yudel, of blessed memory, from Medvidevka, at the beginning of his attachment [to Rebbe Nachman], that when one desires to draw near to the Truth then the falsehood becomes powerful. And when one overcomes the obstacles and breaks them then the letters of the word SHeKeR [falsehood] are rearranged to form KeSHeR [attachment]. "You will already be attached to me all the days of your life." The Rav and Tzaddik, Rabbi Yekutiel, the Maggid [Preacher] of Terhovitza, may his memory be blessed, merited more than all the famous leaders of his generation to subdue himself under Rabbeinu [Rebbe Nachman], may the Tzaddik's memory be a blessing, and to stand before his splendid holiness with awe and fear. And through him his relatives and desendants also drew near to Rabbeinu, may his memory be blessed! The Tzaddik Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac, also was a follower of the Preacher mentioned above. And he was a businessman, in the occupation of a money changer, and when he came to Rabbeinu, may the Tzaddik's memory be a blessing, he inflammed his heart literally like a flame of fire for the service of G*d, and commanded upon him special practises, according to the root of his soul. And one practise that he commanded upon him, that was heavier and more difficult than all the rest, was for a full year not to speak even one word to any person. And afterwards he travelled to his house, and as soon as he arrived he completely separated himself and his place from matters of this world, and he did not speak with any person, as he commanded him, until his lips never ceased from Torah and Tefilla [prayer]. And immediately very great arguments and harassments were stirred up upon him from his whole family, and especially from his father-in-law and his wife, and they went to great lengths to speak and express to him expressions that literally cut like a sword. And Rabbeinu, may his memory be blessed, saw with his holy spirit the great bitterness of [Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac's] heart because of their evil words, and he became very afraid that he not fall from his service, G*d forbid, because of this. And immediately he called speedily to one of his men and ordered him immediately to hire for him a carriage to Terhovitza. And he raced there with speed and reached there at night, and stood with the carriage near the house of the father-in-law of Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac, may his memory be blessed, who dwelled together with him. And he knocked on the door that they open up for him, and he entered into the house. And the father-in-law lifted up his eyes and saw that, behold, Rabbeinu, may the Tzaddik's memory be a blessing, had come to his house, and he was very amazed and dumbstruck by this. And Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac, may his memory be blessed, was in his room and was then reciting Kriyat Shema [the Shema prayer] before going to sleep with great power, with strong and very wondrous devotion. And Rabbeinu, may the Tzaddik's memory be a blessing, heard and did not want to enter his room and to appear before him, in order not to confuse him lest he stop in the middle of his prayer. And during this Rabbeinu, may his memory be blessed, began to rebuke the father-in-law about his evil path, in that he was afflicting his son-in-law with such harsh afflictions. Also Rabbeinu, may his memory be blessed, asked him: "Is it not so that in the morning, when you put on Tefillin [prayer phylacteries], and with your hand you wrap yourself in straps of leather from an animal, and with your mouth you are quiet and silent, and then you do not want to speak a word. Then if some uncircumcised person were to stand before you at that moment, who had never before seen or heard such a thing, would he not say about you that you are going out of your mind? So too are your words that you say about your son-in-law: that he is going out of his mind because he is doing the Will of the Blessed Creator, according to His hidden ways that He informs to us through His faithful servants." And with other similar words like these he spoke and rebuked him, until his father-in-law was very regretful about this, and he accepted upon himself not to afflict him further from that day onwards. And after Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac, may his memory be blessed, finished the Shema, [Rabbeinu] appeared before him, and his heart became very filled with joy and happiness until he literally restored his life. And in the morning Rabbeinu, may his memory be blessed, arose early and returned to his home, and from then on Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac, may his memory be blessed, toiled in G*d's service without an obstructer or adversary!

Rabbi Yitzchak Yehuda, may his memory be blessed, from Teplik, before his attachment to Rabbeinu, may the Tzaddik's memory be a blessing, was very famous in many towns, and people would give him redemption money [charity money given to a Tzaddik to achieve expiation]. And afterwards, when he recognized the truth of Rabbeinu, may his memory be blessed, abandoned and rejected from himself his celebrated behavior and took upon himself the yoke of serving the Blessed One with sincerity and simplicity. And he did not turn his face away also from all the shame and embarassment that he had because of this. And he returned to Hashem with all his heart and soul, like the other men of Rabbeinu, may his memory be blessed!

The faith alone, in that one believes in the Tzaddik and draws himself near to him, even if he will not get anything from him, this itself is very good. For through the faith and the attachment alone his evil is consummed and he is transformed into the substance of the Tzaddik, with the stipulation that his intent be for Heaven. Rabbeinu, may his memory be blessed, rebuked one person who was close to him and became distant and afterwards returned and came to him. He answered and said: "Even if many years pass by and one does not move and rise in his level, and just remains at his first level as in the beginning, and even if he is worse than before, as long as he is connected to the True Tzaddik, the attachment itself is very good, without measure or value. Behold there are people with me about whom I do not know if the deepest part of Hell was enough for them, and through me they became close to Hashem Yisborach...!"

The one who seeks your peace and success with fierce love, with all my heart and soul.

Yisroel Dov Odesser

FOLLOW THE TZADDIK'S ADVICE

With G*d's Help
13 Kislev 5722
Tiberias

The daughter of my eye and heart, Mr. Zalman Shazar, who girded up his loins without laziness, and fired up his heart enflamed like a burning fire, to use his clear tongue, sharp and apt, and his talent far greater than the norm to gather great souls of authors and scientists, to enflame their hearts to the True Tzaddik.... Peace and all good for a long life, a good life, a true life, an eternal life.

From the great friendship and powerful love that I have loved you, a great and true love, behold I send to you these words from the words of Rabbeinu, may his memory be for a blessing, that Hashem has sent into my heart after the conversations and entreaties and tears that I poured out over you before the Blessed Creator during hisbodedus at midnight between the mountains. For your soul is conncted to mine always, at all times. And especially during my prayers and entreaties my innards roar over you greatly. For I know the goodness of your heart in its innermost depths and the specialness of your exalted and very high soul. And it is proper for you to endeavor with all your strength not to lose the treasures and precious and dear remedies that hang on your very dear soul.

Awaken my brother from your sleep and remember your Creator in the days of your old age and think about your end and your eternal puropose before the candle goes out. Have not many of your years already passed by, and our days are like a shadow on the earth, for the time goes and roars, goes and storms, and runs and flies away very very fast. And it does not stand still even for a moment. And when will you do for your eternal home? Pay attention well to these words, and remember what we have spoken many times, that thanks to G*d we have an elderly Father, an Elder of Elders, whose strength is very very great and awesome, who works to rectify us and endeavors for our eternal success in every generation, and who certainly will rectify us with a wondrous rectification. Just be strong and brave to fulfill his words to make your soul happy always, with all the means of his advice, and not to fall in your mind at all, ever, from anything. And force yourself greatly to learn his books each and every day, a little o r a lot, and find calmness for your soul. And the main thing is to nullify your mind before the mind of our holy and exalted Teacher, may the Tzaddik's memory be for a blessing.

The main force of the evil inclination, which is the aspect of the Primordial Serpent, is against the Torah students and the great scholars who have exceptionlly great minds. He is always pursuing after them to cause them to sin, since they have very great souls, [meaning] their intellect. And the main rectification and repentance is
to guard carefully your mind and intellect that you not introduce into your thoughts any extraneous thought or wisdom. For the mind is the soul and when you sanctify your mind, meaning your soul, through this you elevate and return everything to its root. And this is the main repentance. And to merit this in perfection is only through the great Tzaddik, who merited the humility of Moses, and through the greatness of his modesty he lowers himself to all the lowest levels and lifts up and attaches everyone to Hashem Yisborach, even the most alienated.

The one who yearns and desires to see you again with love and great joy.

Yisroel Dov Odesser

THE GARDEN AND THE GARDNER

Delight of my eyes, Mr. Z. Shazar, who fights and struggles to inherit the good life of the Tzaddik. Who awakens from sleep all people who sleep away their lives, through the Stories of the earliest years, from where all seventy faces of the Torah are drawn. Happy is your portion that you merited to this. Peace and good life!

There is a True Tzaddik, who merits to live a good life that lacks nothing. And he precisely looks as though he is deaf, since he does not hear any sound of this world. For all the sounds of this world are only from deficiencies. For each one shouts about what he lacks. And even all the joys in the world are only because of a deficiency that was lacking and now is filled up. And therefore he is called deaf, because to him this world does not count at all that he should listen to its deficiencies. And his good life is bread and water. But in his bread and water you can sense all the tastes and all the scents and all the sights of the world, and all types of pleasure in the world. Until you can live through them a good life in truth, without any deficiency!

There is a garden in which grow fruit and wondrous plants, that have all the tastes and all the smells and all the sights of the world. And the whole world could live a good true life through this garden. And over this garden is a gardener, whom they call agradnick, that is a holy and supreme Tzaddik, who is appointed over it and tries always to fix the garden. And sometimes because of the sin of the generation the gardener is lost, meaning that the light of this Tzaddik is hidden and concealed and the world cannot merit to know about him, that he is the gardener through whom they could all live a good true life through the garden. And even though this gardener goes and says that he is the gardener, but the world considers him insane, G*d forbid, and throws after him stones and banishes him; and therefore obviously he cannot work at repairing the garden. And because of this everything that is in that garden certainly must come to an end and cease, since there is no one there in charge, meaning the gardener. And behold, even though certainly there are remarkable Tzaddikim who have great wealth and great treasuries of spirituality, and they also boast that they live the good life; even so the ruination of the blemished ones of the world can damage even for them the taste and the smell and the other things mentioned above. And all the more so that they do not have the strength to fix the world and to return to them the good life that they could live through the holy garden mentioned above. And therefore when also their good life is ruined, then their whole rectification is through the Tzaddik of the greatest level, who is the aspect of deaf, who lives a good life that has no deficiency at all. And he gives to them to taste from his bread and water, and they sense in them all the tastes, etc. And also through this that which was damaged for them is repaired. And this Tzaddik can repair also the good life of the whole world. And he informs them that the main damage of their good life came to them from the bad traits that the Satan put into them. Meaning that since they do not have truth, and they corrupt judgement, and they turn their faces and take bribes, through this their vision is damaged; and through obscene [literally, dead and rotten] language their taste is damaged, so that all tastes have the taste of dead flesh; and through sexual immorality literally, G*d forbid, their smell is ruined. And he warns them greatly to purify themselves from these sins. And then not only are their taste and vision and smell repaired, but also they merit through this to find the lost gardener. And then the Tzaddikim mentioned above admit the Truth and tell the world that the whole rectification of the above mentioned Tzaddikim themselves, and also the rectification of the whole world, depends only on the deaf Tzaddik.

THE GATHERING OF THE TZADDIK

With G*d's Help
3 Kislev 5721
Tiberias

When a person comes to a certain test, he should know that if he will stand up to this test, then the Holy Blessed One will make a miracle for him.

My pleasant heart, Mr. Zalman Shazar, renowned and master of a sharp eye, deep and broad to discern and to grasp who is the True King of Israel today, and for all the future generations, who destroys all the falsehood and spirit of defilement of the prophets of falsehood, and the false, dirty, and filthy ideas of the scholars of nature, that are fuller of vomit and excrement than a lavatory. And there is no vileness and evil smell worse than them in the world. Peace and true life for length of days.

The more that are multiplied the souls that come to the Tzaddik to receive his light, the more is reduced and nullified the evil breath that was made on the earth. Which are the questions of the heretics [that result] because they see a Tzaddik who suffers evil and an evil doer who enjoys good.

THE GOOD CHOICE

With G*d's Help
The First Day of the Intermediate Days of Passover
16 Nissan 5720 [1960]
Tel Aviv

My brother, dear and beloved like my soul, the pleasant Mr. Zalman Shazar, peace and a good and long life.

Your letter I received just now, and I had great joy. Many thanks to your honor. May Hashem repay you for your action and save you so that you will add to these to grab good from amidst the hell that is this world, that is full of bitterness and pain. For only this is left to the man, and his reward will not be withheld, and his righteousness will stand forever. My eyes are depending on Hashem, that there will sprout forth from this the good fruits that we are awaiting to revive us, that are pleasant, beloved, desirous, and sweet, the sparks of Hashem Yisborach, that our awesome and holy Teacher drew down into the world evenn for this orphaned generation in this our lowly situation. Happy is the one who merits to draw near to him and to go in his ways in truth. Blessed is our G*d who created us for His glory and separated us from the erring.... Your faithful and beloved friend in truth. With blessings for a kosher and happy Festival.

Yisroel Dov Odesser
Tel Aviv

THE GOOD ELOQUENCE

With G*d's Help
26 Iyar 5721
Tiberias

My dear heart, Mr. Zalman Shazar, who warms his heart with heat and flame to drink from the waters of knowledge, etc. Peace and all good.

In the Story of the Master of Prayer, concerning the group that said that rhetoric and speech is the goal, meaning that one should know many languages and be a nice speaker, etc. This error is slightly understandable. For we know all the evil thing that is done today by the sinful speakers, as our Teacher, may his memory be for a blessing, said jokingly, when he greatly praised the power of speech. And he said afterwards, "but there are speakers who are sinners of Israel,as it is written 'and your speakers sinned against Me.'" For all the intellectuals and philosphers and heretics, virtually all of them are great speakers. And in truth, in its root in holiness, speech is very good. As our Teacher ,may his memory be for a blessing, himself praised speech greatly, and he said that speech has great power to arouse the man.

And behold this matter of the value of speech is very necessary for every person who desires true and eternal life, who wants to go in the ways of Hashem, to return to the Blessed One. And the general advice, which is the foundation of all the types of advice, is isolation and talking between oneself and G*d, as we have explained many times. Meaning to accustom oneself every day to go to a special place to isolate himself and to speak before the Blessed One, the way one would speak to his friend, and to say a great amount of complaints, entreaties, requests, placations in the language that he normally speaks, that Hashem Yisborach should help him and merit him to return from his evil deeds and to draw near to the Blessed One. And for this the idea of speech is a great thing. Meaning to accustom oneself to expand his speech and to say many complaints and to request to find for himself each time new words of repentance and appeasement and nice complaints and words of arousal for great mercies. For in the matter of speaking between himself and his Maker, which is the main goal that we need through which we can merit eternal life, and to be saved from the pit of destruction and from the muddy depths, etc. For this matter we need all the types of speech in the world, petitions and requests and appeasments and placation and entreaties and mercy and grace and complaints and similarly like this greatly. And all the matters of these words are included in rhetoric. For all this comes at its root from the aspect of the highest rhetoric, from where King David, may peace be upon him, arranged the Book of Psalms with his holy spirit, which contains all the expressions of holy rhetoric. But the group mentioned above chose rhetoric for their own evil, to consume all their days in the ways of rhetoric, in order to draw the Israeli heart, G*d forbid, to the ways of the skeptics and the philosphers, through which they uproot themselves and their children and their students who go in thieir footsteps from both worlds, as we literally see in their evil ways and to where they arrive through their evil rhetoric.

And it is impossible to expand upon this here, for a multitude of parchments would be insufficient to tell the greatness of the bitter affliction that has spread out today so much and about those sinful rhetoriticians is said: "And what advantage is there to the master of the tongue" and "Remove from me the multitude of your songs", etc.

Who prays always for your peace and salvation, who yearns to be seen with you in joy.

Yisroel Dov Odesser

THE GOOD PATH

With G*d's Help
18 Tammuz 5724

In honor of the President of Israel, the pleasant one of my heart, Mr. Sh. Z. Shazar, who lowers himself and throws down his own honor for the sake of everything pertaining to benefit the projects and affairs of the True Tzaddik and Leader, who has the attractive power to attract and to draw the whole world near to Hashem Yisborach. Peace and long life, a good and true life.

My beloved, my brother, my soul and my heart: do not delay the mitzvah that Hashem has sent to you for your benefit. And be hasty to do it for the sake of Heaven without delay. For certain you will have a proper portion in everything that wil be born from this. Strengthen yourself to request wisdom from the True Sage, the great wonder of all the generations. And hear and listen to his words and advice. Day and night his memory should not depart from you, and you should place him always before your eyes. Balance your feet to straighten them out in the direction of the Truth, and from the path of falsehood flee and take distance. Do not be lazy about being a good friend to those who truly fear Hashem. Stick to their friendship always, especially on the holy Rosh Hashanah that is coming soon. Be a good friend to the true fearers of Hashem, always cling to their friendship, especially on the holy days of Rosh Hashanah that are coming. Balance out your feet to straighten them on the path of the Truth, and from the path of falsehood flee and take distance.

The Author

THE GOODNESS OF THE TZADDIK

With G*d's Help
2 Shevat 5721
Tiberias

My precious Mr.Zalman Shazar, who is covered with dust from the feet of the Tzaddik, in order to benefit from the pleasantness of his radiance and to fatten his soul with the splendors of the light of his teaching.

How very wondrous is your love for me. How very sweet were your words to me. And how much you gave me life with your words, my dear brother, when I see that, praise to G*d, the words of our exalted Rabbi [Rebbe Nachman of Breslov], may his memory be blessed, are making an impression on your pleasant heart, and are vitalizing and restoring your soul greatly. I am certainly hoping in G*d that He will increase His kindness with you, to enable you to succeed to do well in your destiny as well as your beginning. Be strong and brave, my dear one, to make yourself happy at all times, with all your strength, with all the methods that we received from the source of wisdom. Both with the good points and with the fact that we merited to know of such a light of lights. And in that He did not make me a goy [non-Jew]. For happiness is a great cure for all sorts of illnesses. Especially now that there is already in the world the power of the Tzaddik , the Beggar without hands. Who cures the King's daughter, the aspect of the generality of all the souls of Israel, with ten types of song. Accustom yourself every day to deepen your logical thinking into the powerful kindness and the amazing salvation that the Master of Wonders did with all of our People Israel, even in these our days, by sending us the True Tzaddik, complete in the essence of perfection, after whom there is no other perfection. Who is completely clean from all sin, who has not the slightest blemish, even the tiniest amount, even like a hairsbreadth, who draws down and reveals the free kindness, which sustained the world before the Giving of the Torah, through which he sustains and vitalizes the world even today, when the world is distant from the Torah. As they are distant. For he finds the Blessed One's life force even in the places that are far from the Torah. And all the evil that is in the world is pushed away and falls before him, and through this he gives life to all the simple people in the world, even the gentile nations, and all the distant ones who are lying in the depths of hell.

The Tzaddik himself is the aspect of the hidden kindness mentioned above, that can sustain and vitalize the world always, even if the world is distant as they are distant.

The Author

With G*d's Help
Midnight of the Second Night of Chanuka 5722
Tel Aviv

My dear heart, Mr. Zalman Shazar, who merited to join himself with the True Tzaddik, who is the true chosen head of all the choice and true Tzaddkim, unique in the generations. Who revealed such truth in the world that it is impossible to ruin it in any way in the world. Peace and life and all good.

You need to remember very very well, all the days of your life, each and every day, the greatness of G*d's kindness that He did with you and brought about awesome events in His concealed ways to draw you near to the True Tzaddik. Who removed you from the place he removed you. And who informs you that Hashem still is with you and will not remove His kindness from you forever. And even though you still are undergoing what you are undergoing, certainly the kindness and goodness that Hashem Yisborach has done with you certainly is not in vain, G*d forbid. And in the end Hashem Yisborach will finish His and you will merit to return to your source in perfection. For the word of G*d will stand forever, in every generation, to inform them of his exalted awesomeness: the great level of Rabbeinu [our Teacher], may his memory be for a blessing, the holy level of his teachings and sermons and all his matters.

THE HAPPINESS OF LIVING IN OUR ERA

With G*d's Help
Eve of Rosh Chodesh [New Month of] Shevat 5721
Tiberias

My precious, beloved, and yearned for: Mr. Zalman Shazar, who gets dusty in the dirt at the feet of the Tzaddik, in order to benefit from the pleasantness of his radiance. And to fatten his soul with the amazing light of his teaching. To draw from there eternal life. May you have length of days and years, with a majority of true and eternal good.

Brother, hold yourself. Do not let up. Make yourself fresh, as though today you were born. Gird up your loins like a mighty one, my dear brother. Be strong and brave and be happy and rejoice and trust in the power of the Elder of Holiness, the Elder of the Elders. For he walks before us at all times and in every generation. Even if we already have been snared as we have been snared and stumbled as we have stumbled; even though we ourselves are guilty. Even so happy are we, happy are we [ashreinu, ashreinu], thousands and tens of thousands of times without number, that we merited to what we merited, that we have come into this world at this time when there is such a light of lights, such a novelty of novelties....Such awesome teachings, sermons, and Stories, that have no example like them. And we have neither mouth or faculties to explain even the smallest amount of them. Even the least portion of them, a thousand or thousands or tens of thousands, until the place where these words reach, in the highest places in the Heavens. But also in their simplest form they vitalize all the souls with eternal life at all times. Delve into them and delve into them, into every lesson and sermon; certainly you will be able to vitalize (and rejoice) yourself always, and to vitalize others as well.

When the person is in a terrible bind, and the forces of evil overpower him, as they do, until he has no where to turn either right or left, until it appears that he has no hope, G*d forbid, and that he is in the grips of pressure and the constrictions on his soul; then turn to Hashem Yisborach from the bind. Even if he only turns himself to Hashem Yisborach like a hair's breadth, this is very precious in the eyes of Hashem Yisborach. And the letters of MeiTZeR [constriciton] are rearranged to form TZeMeR [wool], an aspect of the thread of wool that whitens the sins on Yom Hakippurim.

The True Tzaddik always finds merit in Israel, even in the most unworthy and the least of them, because in all of them can be found many good hairs, meaning the extent that they draw themselves occasionally from bad to good like a hair's breadth. And those hairs gather together and are weaved and woven and made into the light of the holy Tzitzis [fringes], which are an aspect of extremely high and awesome kindness, the root of all the Thirteen Traits of Mercy, from which are pardoned all the sins and transformed into merits.

Know and believe that not one good point and no single simple movement is ever lost, and even just a general arousal to holiness and a good thought are never lost, for as soon as one is awakened with a certain awakening, and all the more so when he does some act of holiness, then immediately the True Tzaddik, who works for the rectification of the souls of Israel, grabs it and brings it into the place that he brings it to, for the sake of the wondrous and awesome building that he labors to build, in order to bring into there all the outcasts in the world. And not one of them will be left outside. And through this great delight is created Above, without measure.

Seeking your peace, with feelings of love and yearning.

The Author,
Yisroel D. Odesser

HAVE MERCY ON THE PEOPLE OF G*D

With G*d's Help
Eve of the Holy Sabbath
16 Tammuz 5725

In honor of the President of Israel, my heart and life, Mr. Sh. Z. Shazar, who is dear in the eyes of Hashem like a wife to her husband, because of the great force of his desire and yearning to bind himself with the True Sage, who exists forever and shields over Israel from generation to generation, to elevate everyone from the depths of the pit, from the essence of descent, from the essence of physicality, to a level higher and higher above all spirituality. May Hashem shield you and heal you and strengthen your power and your house in body and soul for length of days.

The main honor and greatness of the kingdom is specifically through humility. And the more humble the king is the more the kingdom spreads out. For this is the way of the kingdom: every time it must put humility before its honor and greatness. And also: in the place of your greatness there I find your humility, to come and to speak before you that which Hashem has put under my quill. Know 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 vou would be President over Israel. In order that you have mercy on the People of Hashem with true mercy. And that with your great straight intellect and your polished and glorious tongue you would inform and teach the People the wondrous and awesome Truth that Hashem has put before your eyes, through many reasons and events of his wondrous Providence, in a manner of miracle and wonder, for the last seven years. And that you should open the eyes and heart of Israel that all would see and understand the real Truth, stored away and hidden and concealed from the eyes of everyone, which is the main life-force and existence of the Creation. And from whom will sprout the Final Redemption for us and for the entire world. That everyone will recognize and know Hashem. And they will give Him the Crown of the Kingdom.

We already have spoken somewhat about the matter of the bond of friendship and love that Hashem has made between us, and that truly there do not exist in the entire world men who are brothers, faithful and true like us. This was from Hashem, from Heaven. And we need to guard ourselves greatly that the love not become blemished, G*d forbid, even a hairsbreadth. For it is proper for us to hold fast to the love, with greater exaltation and greater determination, since we have merited to have a portion in publicizing and revealing the name of the True Tzaddik in the world, upon which depends our main hope, rectification, and Complete Redemption and the rectification of the whole world.

The Author

THE HOLINESS OF ERETZ YISROEL
[THE LAND OF ISRAEL]

With Thanks to G*d
The Fifth Day to Shabbat
The Tenth Israel Independence Day Festival 5718
Tiberias

In honor of my heart's desire, the pleasant Mr. Zalman Shazar. Peace and great light from the great Eagle. May he hover over you every day, constantly, for the length of your days.

Behold I send to you my heartfelt blessing on the Tenth Israel Independence Day Festival. Blessed is the One who has sustained us and brought us to this time. Who has made for us open miracles in the eyes of the whole world and hidden miracles concealed from our minds. So too may we merit the Complete Redemption through the revelation of the holy knowledge of the True Tzaddik, the Flowing Stream the Source of Wisdom, may his merit protect us, Amen.

Through the sanctity of Eretz Yisroel [the Land of Israel] we merit to know of the True Rebbe. And according to how much we merit to attach and to be included with the True Tzaddik, so too do we merit a portion in Eretz Yisroel.

Eretz Yisroel is the encompassing holiness of all forms of holiness. In her we merit to escape from the perspective of "nature" and to know and to believe that everything is through Divine Providence alone. And this awareness is the essence of holiness. If a person were truly to believe in the sanctity of Eretz Yisroel, even in just one part in a thousand of her true holiness, surely he would run and fly to Eretz Yisroel with all his strength, and no obstacle could stop him.

Every member of Israel has a portion in Eretz Yisroel, and there is our life, there is our holiness, there is our home, there is our Land, there is our soil, there is our portion, there is our lot. And in Chutz Le'aretz [literally, "outside the Land"] we dwell like a guest with nowhere to lodge, who wanders around in the courtyards, marketplaces and streets, for there is not our land and our portion at all. And therefore it is called "Outside the Land," "outside" precisely. For we are standing on the outside, literally outside, and there is no one to gather us home until we shall come onto the Ground of Holiness.

By dwelling in Eretz Yisroel we can perceive the Providence of the Blessed Lord over the world.

Yisroel Dov Odesser
Tiberias

HOW TO ENTER THE SEA OF WISDOM

With G*d's Help
26 Kislev, Chanuka 5722
Tel Aviv

My dear heart, Mr. Zalman Shazar, who merited to join himself with the True Tzaddik, who is the genuine chosen head amongst all the chosen and true Tzaddikim, unique in their generations, who has revealed such truth in the world that it is impossible to damage it in any way in the world. Peace and life and all good.

You need to remember very very well, all the days of your life, each and every day, the great kindness of G*d that He did with you and caused awesome events to happen in His secret ways to draw you near to the True Tzaddik. Who extracted you from the place he extracted you. And he informs you that Hashem is still close to you and that He will not abandon His kindness to you forever. And even though you still are undergoing what you are undergoing, even so certainly the kindness and good that Hashem Yisborach has done with you is not in vain, G*d forbid, and in the end Hashem Yisborach will finish His and you will merit to return to your source in perfection, in the great strength and merit of the Tzaddik, for the word of G*d lasts forever.

Through the holy light, wondrous and awesome, of the holy Chanuka light, we draw upon ourselves the light of the True Tzaddik, who already drew in the perfection of the Redemption that will be through our Righteous Messiah. The main Coming of the Messiah is to reveal the Truth in the world. For now the Truth is in a great exile and everyone says that the Truth is with him. And the main Truth will be revealed through the Messiah. Falsehood is the side of death, and Truth is an elixir of life. And therefore the separation of truth from falsehood is an aspect of the revival of the dead. (The Truth is the aspect of "in order". Meaning that people say things as they are, which is the aspect of "in order". But the falsehood is the aspect of "not in order", since people change the matter and the story from its true order. The main mitzvah of the Chanuka light is to light and to illuminate the light of Truth in the world, that everyone should merit to know where is the Truth, that he lights and illuminates all the souls of Israel with the light of the Messiah, in all the types of darkness and gloom, and he nullifies all the darkness and all the fallen loves. And he saves them from mighty flood waters, that rise up all the time to destroy the world, to make people forget the Torah.

Hashem Yisborach in His mercy leads each generation with His kindness through the Great TrueTzaddik, and his proper and true students, who occasionally grab people and remove them from very distant and dirty places, and they start to purify them and to draw them to Hashem Yisborach and illuminate them with great light, with a great illumination. Even though there are many who fall afterwards from their level, may G*d save us, even so each time they try to draw nearer, because You are exalted forever Hashem. Always You have the upper hand, until in the end everything will be rectified perfectly.

(Now that the exile has lasted so long upon us.) Now in the great power of the darkness, the Truth is hidden, and one who turns away from evil runs wild and those who fear sin are despised. And in most cases people of truth are very pursued, because of the accusation against the True Tzaddik, and the main rectification is not to enter into inquiries and questions and explanations at all. Just to look at the real Truth and to guard yourself from stumbling in the net of the pursuers, with their smooth tongues and their cleverness and scoffing. And all this is harder than physical pursuit, for a mental obstacle is the hardest of all.

One who wants to enter the sea of wisdom will find it impossible except through a true leader, who will know all the ways and paths in the sea of wisdom. And who, with wisdom and wondrous craftsmanship, will make ships with which to traverse and to sail in the sea of wisdom. For one who does not receive from the True Rebbe, who is the aspect of Moses, the idea of constriction and boundaries of the intellect, so that he not enter into and comprehend that which is too much and too wondrous for him; and that he not enter into investigations and questions and answers, but rather that he will rely just on Faith. And if he will enter into the sea of wisdom [without the True Rebbe], certainly he will drown spiritually and physically in the sea. And this was the main miracle of the splitting of the Sea of Reeds [the culmination of the Exodus from Egypt by the Children of Israel; see Exodus: chapters 12-15], that the Sea of Wisdom was split for them spiritually, in the strength and merit of Moses our Teacher, peace be upon him, and they merited to traverse it in peace. And so too the sea split for them physically and they passed across the dry land in the midst of the sea. And the main thing was that Moses illuminated them with the idea of silence, not to doubt the traits of the Blessed One, an aspect of "Hashem will fight for you and you will be silent" [Exodus 14:14].

The Author

IBAY HANACHAL : OUR CHILD

With G*d's Help
27 Elul 5730

In honor of the President of Israel, who rules over the secret chambers of science and supremely high wisdom, higher than all, that our Teacher, the Flowing Stream, revealed. Who in his wisdom will conquer the whole world and will extract them from darkness to light and will illuminate all of them with the pleasant light of Hashem. May you be written and sealed for a good year and life and peace for you and your household, and may you have long days and years in your government with much good.

The days of old-age have leapt upon me with a strong hand, and my strength and my mind are weak and poor. In addition the illnesses and pains and afflictions without measure that surround me from all sides, due to my many sins, may you be spared, do not allow me to come in letters or writing as is proper for us.

Even if the bodies are far apart, but our souls are ver