Igrot Kodesh · Letter 2156 — Faith & Bitachon

By the grace of Hashem,

29 Sivan 5713,

Brooklyn,

To the Rebbetzin Chaya Sarah[1],

I bless and greet you,

I received with pleasure your letter of this Tuesday, in which you tell me that next Wednesday will take place the closing meeting[2] of the N'shei uBnos Chabad* organization, for the Chicago group. You will find enclosed a letter that I have addressed to this organization[3]. You will read it out during this meeting. Perhaps it will also be possible to send you in time the notes of my father-in-law, the Rebbe, may his merit protect us, regarding his imprisonment[3]. These are currently at press.

It would be good to speak to those present, at least briefly, of the festival of liberation, to tell them that the will of my father-in-law, the Rebbe, was always not to limit oneself to the narrative, but to draw from it a lesson to strengthen the practice of Torah* and mitzvos*.

How much more so is this the case with regard to women, who can exert a broad influence on their husband and their children. Of course, everything depends on the place where one finds oneself and on the women whom one is addressing. What can be expected of them is, in each case, different. Nevertheless, there is always a point about which one can and must speak, in every place, to every woman. One can then hope for positive and concrete results.

With my brachah* of success for all the members of the organization, as well as for those who belong to their family, that each one receive the satisfaction of her needs,

Notes

[1] Rebbetzin C. S. Hecht, wife of Rav Shlomo Zalman Hecht of Chicago.

[2] Of the year of study.

[3] From which he was liberated on the 12-13 of Tammuz.