Letters

To my friend.

It is now noon and I have received his letter from the eighth of the first month, and your beggar’s complaints against me is an accepted prayer, as it is written in the Zohar.

I have already proven to you in my previous letters that while you reproach me for not writing, it is your own languor you should be reproaching. Note, that you have not written a word to me in more than two months, while I wrote you four letters in that time...

To my soul mate

…You implied to me in your last letter, that I hide my face from you and consider you an enemy, you mean, as though hearing one’s disgrace and keeping still, and that I do not carry the load with my friends and do not care for my friends’ pains. I admit that you are right. I do not feel these pains that you feel whatsoever. On the contrary, I am happy and rejoice in these apparent and appearing impairments...

Dear…

…Yet, let me write to you, with regard to the middle pillar in the work of God, so as to always be a target for you between right and left. This is because there is he who walks, who is worse than he who sits idly. It is he who deflects from the road, for the path of truth is a very thin line that one walks until one comes to the King’s palace.

My dear soul mate and disciple, and all the friends.

I have received all your letters, and may they please the Almighty. However, “Know thou the God of thy father and serve Him.” Know means recognition, because a soul that does not know is not good. This means that, if a person does not know his master, even though he has a soul and yearns and longs to serve Him it is not good.