Igrot Kodesh · Letter 9555

[19 Elul* 5728]

This will, in every respect, be at a good and fruitful moment[1]. I will mention their names at the tomb[2] for all of this, and so that they be inscribed and sealed for a good year.

Without a doubt, they will immediately organize a program of study of the revealed part of the Torah and of Chasidut*, with enthusiasm and ardor, in accordance with the great importance of these days, since the Yud* concluding the word Dodi* — "my Beloved" — is already being revealed, after the preparation of the twenty days that have passed since Rosh Chodesh* Elul, corresponding to the two Yuds that conclude Ani LeDodi* — "I am to my Beloved"[3].

And the assurance was given to us[4] that: "when a person sanctifies himself...[5], he is greatly sanctified from Above."

Notes

(1) This is the Rebbe's reply to the announcement of the arrival of guests from the Holy Land, who came to spend the month of Tishrei* with him.
(2) Of the Rabbi Rayats*.
(3) The four words constituting the verse: "I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine" each conclude with a Yud. The numerical value of these four Yuds, that is forty, corresponds to the number of days separating Rosh Chodesh Elul from Yom Kippur*. See the Sefer HaMaamarim Melukat, vol. 1, p. 371, in note 108.
(4) See tractate Yoma* 39a and the Tanya*, at the beginning of chapter 27.
(5) Even a little, in this lower world.

ט'תקנה

[י"ט אלול, ה'תשכ"ח]

ויהא בשעטומ"צ בכל – ואזכירם עה"צ להנ"ל ולכוח"ט.

בטח יכנסו מיד לסדר לימודים בנגלה ובחסידות ובהתמדה ושקידה מתאימות לגודל ערך ימים אלה – שכבר נתגלה הי' דס"ת ודודי – לאחרי ההכנה דהעשרים יום דמר"ח אלול, ב' היודי"ן דס"ת אני לדודי.

והובטחו : אדם מקדש עצמו כו' מקדשין אותו הרבה מלמעלה.