Igrot Kodesh · Letter 1681 — Health

By the grace of Hashem,
3 Tammuz 5712,
Brooklyn,

To the distinguished chassid* who fears Hashem,
Rav Nasan Nota,[1]

Greetings and blessings,

I had news of you with pleasure through the Rav, distinguished chassid* who fears Hashem and devotes himself faithfully to the needs of the community, Rav Menachem Shmuel Dovid HaLevi Reitchik, emissary of the elders.[2] He also transmitted to me your request for blessing. As you asked, I mentioned your name, in an opportune moment, at the gravesite of my father-in-law, the Rebbe.

I learned with pleasure that you were, in days past, a student of the Yeshivah Lubavitch in Poland. The forces that our holy Rebbeim instilled in the students in general, and in those of Yeshivah Lubavitch in particular, cannot be lost, chas veshalom*.

Nevertheless, my father-in-law, the Rebbe, used to say that "a chassid* is intelligent. He does not put off until tomorrow what he can accomplish today." This applies in particular to one who is responsible for the order of a synagogue and who, within it, can therefore obtain multiple results. He can, in a discreet manner, accomplish much more than what he does in an evident and affirmed manner.

The Almighty does not remain in debt. He rewards with an interest exceeding the principal, granting Yiddishe* and chassidic* nachas* from one's children and also from one's own person.

With my blessing of good health, physical and moral,

Notes

[1] Rav N. N. Dender.
[2] In California. See letters no. 1682 and 1747.