Yitzchok Breiter

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Yitzchok Breiter The Seven Pillars of Faith

Even if the person is very far from holiness, nevertheless, by drawing close to the True Tzaddik, he at least will come to see and know how far he is from truth and righteousness, and from the proper ways of justice, and how he is in fact immersed in the opposite, in order that he should long for truth, and pray about it, without any despair or sadness.
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Yitzchok Breiter The Seven Pillars of Faith

Also, the saying "All who say a word of Torah in the name of the Rabbi who said it, brings Redemption to the world" — that is to say, that he should come to know from whom is drawn all the words, and through this he hastens the Redemption of the world and of his own soul.
20. A novelty such as the Nachal Novea Mekor Chokhmah was never before in the world. For he prepared vessels for our Righteous Mashiach, and the Mashiach will battle with them against the forces of evil, to repair the world.
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Yitzchok Breiter The Seven Pillars of Faith

He is the life of the entire world.
12. All service of Hashem rises upward through him.
13. All thoughts of repentance come from him. [4]
14. Through a person's drawing close to the True Tzaddik — that is, through understanding the above concepts, and through following his holy advice — the person draws upon himself sparks from the light of the Tzaddik — each according to his level.
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