Overview: Parshas Eikev, Wednesday — pure joy in a brief form. *Tzmichas yeshuasecha* — the budding image from Letter 106 applied personally. *Yisaif Hashem chasdo ligmor yeshuascha bish'leimus*. *T'valeh yamecha*: now identified as the Talmudic ideal of *valey yomoi b'Torah* — the complete exhaustion of one's days in true goodness, leaving nothing unspent. *L'orech yamim v'shanim tovim*.

The bearer of this letter is in urgent need — and I too am preoccupied now with several matters — and I have no word on my tongue to write you. Although I have great sorrow from the cry of your pain in your letter — but this is my consolation — that praised be G-d in His great kindness, Yisborach, his holy words — of blessed memory — have borne fruit in your heart [דְּבָרָיו הַקְּדוֹשִׁים זַ\"ל עָשׂוּ פֵּרוֹת בְּלִבְּךָ — organic spiritual growth: the teachings have taken root and produced fruit. The standard of genuine reception: not merely heard but grown into the person, transforming the interior life from within] — to the point that even the melody is fixed in your heart. And so it is fitting for you — for in truth it is not an empty thing to strengthen oneself — however one is, however one is — for this is the essential thing — and upon this all of Judaism depends.

To: My beloved son, my dear one — may his light shine. [Yitzchok] Your letter I received today — and I am ready now to travel in peace — and I have no time to reply to you anything.

It is good to give thanks to Hashem — that your longing and your consolation is the light of truth that illuminates all — for this is the consolation of all

Nussun of Breslov.

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