a) The main form of redemption depends on faith, for exile is primarily a result of the lack of faith.
b) Prayer is an aspect of faith for one believes that there is an Innovator who has the power to renew everything according to His will. Therefore, a person who believes, prays to the Holy One to fulfill his requests. By this he can bring about miracles, above and beyond the laws of nature.
c) The essence of faith, which is prayer, an aspect of miracles, is only in the Land of Israel. There is the main place for prayers to rise and there a person can, through his prayer, bring about what he wants and create true miracles and wonders in the world.
d) Faith, prayer and miracles and the Land of Israel are all one aspect. All of them are inter-dependent.
e) If one causes a blemish in the Land of Israel, which reflects faith and prayer, then one descends into exile. The main blemish is that prayer descends into exile and it becomes impossible to pray properly and bring about miracles.
f) Some people cover over all the miracles by explaining them as nature. When these atheists, who don't believe in miracles, cease to exist and faith becomes much stronger throughout the world, then Meshiach will come for the main essence of redemption depends on this, that's to say, on faith.
g) It is impossible to achieve faith other than by truth (that's to say, the essence of faith is only when the intellect doesn't understand, for when one understands, faith doesn't apply. This being the case, when a person doesn't understand, where will he acquire faith from to believe in what he has to believe. So, essentially, faith depends on truth. When a person wants to look at the real truth, he will understand automatically that he has to believe with pure faith in the Holy One, in true tzaddikim and in His holy Torah. Even though this is impossible to understand properly with our crude intellect, nevertheless, by looking at the truth with a true eye, he will understand, even from far away, that this is certainly the truth though we cannot understand it intellectually. Therefore, we have to strengthen ourselves with perfect faith. Understand well. )
h) One cannot reach truth other than by coming close to true tzaddikim and by following their advice, without swerving to the right or left from their words. As a result, truth will be etched within such a person; then he will merit to faith, prayer, the Land of Israel and miracles. By this, the Redemption will come.
i) Advice that we receive from tzaddikim is like a holy marriage, for we get drops of their intellect by this advice that we accept. This means that it is an aspect of rectifying the brit. On the other hand, accepting advice from those who oppose or obstruct the tzaddikim is like blemishing the brit, for they entice and lead people away from the point of truth. Consequently, someone who has blemished his brit has to guard himself a great deal from this mixed-up advice of those who oppose the truth, in order that he not lose his whole world in a moment, Heaven forbid.
j) One has to stay far away from the advice of common people because most of their advice is bad and very spoilt. This is even more so with the advice of those evil people who oppose the truth. All the sins and blemishes come from them so one has to keep very far away from them indeed. Their advice is like that of the Primaeval Serpent, so when one accepts their advice it instills poison within you. This is like marriage to the husks of evil, as it says," The Snake beguiled me" (Genesis, 3, 13). Such advice is an aspect of blemishing the brit which distances a person from truth, holy faith and the Land of Israel. Therefore one has to very careful not to follow their advice, Heaven forbid. Rather, one has to attach oneself to true tzaddikim and their followers whose advice is entirely a seed of truth (Jeremiah, 2, 21). Taking their advice is an aspect of rectifying the brit and through their advice one merits to everything good, to truth, faith, prayer and the Land of Israel and to bring about miracles in the world.
k) The craving for sex primarily depends on the eyes. The mitzvah of tzitzit acts as a guard and correction for this and, by this we are saved from bad advice. It merits us to receive true advice from the true tzaddikim. Consequently, we have to be careful about this mitzvah of tzitzit; when you wrap yourself in the holy tzitzit and make a blessing you should have in mind that it should merit you to a protection of the brit and to good and truthful advice. By this, you should merit to faith, the Land of Israel and to bring the redemption closer. You should also merit to prayer and to bring about miracles and wonders in the world. As a result of this holy mitzvah, may you also have a good income, for this depends mostly on rectifying the brit. Finally, through this, you should merit to understand very well whatever Torah you learn such that all its wisdoms will be revealed to you like an arranged table.
l) Prayer, which is faith, has a special power to help the memory and saves you from forgetting which stems from flaws in faith.
m) Before coming close to a tzaddik, one is in the aspect of "makes the heart fat, stops up its ears and seals its eyes" (Isaiah, 6, 10). That's to say, one's heart is closed, one's ears blocked and one's eyes blind from seeing the truth and awakening to repentance. However, when you attach yourself to tzaddikim and take their advice, then your heart, eyes and ears are opened ,as it says,' see with their eyes etc. which are the three brains. Then he will repent and be healed such that he sees hears and understands the truth and merits to repent.
n) Through blemishing the brit (sexual sins) a person loses his income.
o) It is especially good for a sick person to look at the tzitzit.