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No. 417

This letter was addressed to R. Yaakov Landau, the Rav of Bnei Brak and a leading Lubavitch Rabbinic authority.

B"H, 26 Cheshvan, 5709

Greetings and blessings,

As I recall, I am the one who is “righteous” with regard to our correspondence, for you did not answer the last letter that I wrote you, nor did you acknowledge receipt of the Rebbe Rashab’s maamar entitled VaYachlom (Kuntreis 52) that I sent you at that time.[54]

In one of the newspapers, I read that you took part in a Rabbinical assembly and that you suggested a text for a heter iska.[55] I took joy at least in this piece of information.

I am writing with regard to a matter of present [concern]. Enclosed is Kuntreis Heichaltzu, 5659, which was just published. You will no doubt acknowledge receipt of it.

On this occasion, I would like to recall again the promise you made previously, to send a copy of the conclusion of the Rebbe Rashab’s letter concerning Lashon HaKodesh,[56] the beginning of which you sent last year. (It concludes with the note: “Behold, in Sanhedrin, the words ‘according to one version are as above.’”) And also [you promised], given the contingencies of time, to copy other letters of significant content if you possess them. [I send] my thanks in advance.

With wishes for everlasting good and with good wishes to the members of your household even though I do not know them.

M. Schneerson

   

Notes:

54. (Back to text) [See Letter No. 319.]

55. (Back to text) [An arrangement that allows money to be given at interest without violating the Biblical prohibition against doing such.]

56. (Back to text) [“The Holy Tongue.” This letter was printed in the Rebbe Rashab’s Igros Kodesh, Vol. II, p. 816ff. See the Rebbe’s Igros Kodesh, Letters No. 228, 235, 262, 294, 319, and 473.]

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