Igrot Kodesh · Letter 49 — Released-Time Education · Chinuch · Decree Annulment

7 Shevat 5703,

To the great scholar, of many activities, the Rav ...

I greet you and bless you,

I respond to the letter that you sent to my father-in-law, the Rebbe Shlita, and to the Merkaz Leinyonei Chinuch, formulating a proposal for the free hour, on Wednesday, of the schoolchildren [1].

The Rebbe Shlita forwarded your letter to us and asked us to follow through on it.

We have therefore established contacts with various people who can intervene in this matter.

We have prepared pamphlets, which you have surely received.

You will no doubt send us a report on our Beit Rivkah, of which you are the director, as we discussed by telephone. You will find enclosed a model of it.

In these times of terrible persecutions, comparable to those of Haman [2], the counsel given by our Sages is to teach Torah to the sons of the ignorant and to lead the wicked toward Teshuvah. It is thus that these decrees will be annulled.

Each person must consider that the world is half meritorious, half guilty, and that he can, through his good actions, tip it to the side of good, bring about redemption and salvation, in the terms of the Rambam.

With my blessing of immediate Teshuvah, immediate redemption,

The director of the executive committee

[1] Which is devoted to the teaching of Judaism, which was one of the important activities of the Merkaz Leinyonei Chinuch.

[2] This last part is identical to that of letter no. 44.