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No. 649

This letter was sent to several persons, individually addressed to each one.

B"H, 25Tammuz, 5710

Greetings and blessings,

Your letter and your pan were duly received. As you requested, I read it at the gravesite of my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe, hk"m, and in his room where one enters for yechidus and for giving a pan.

A tzaddik grants blessing and G-d fulfills the blessings of a tzaddik — who, [after his passing,] is found in this world [even] more than during his lifetime[620] — in a full manner.

It is my hope[621] that you do not need to be informed— and that would be a ray of light[622] — about the concept of hiskashrus, bonding ourselves, to the Nasi, my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe, hk"m. This bonding comes through studying his teachings and following the directives that he gave.

Surely you have a fixed time devoted to study of the teachings of my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe, hk"m, [as printed in] his maamarim, talks, and letters. How good would it be if this study were of a group nature so that one person could strengthen and motivate a colleague![623]

It is understood that the above does not free one from the obligations for study incumbent on every person, including the fixed study sessions in which all are equally obligated on a daily basis: Chumash, together with Rashi's commentary; Tehillim, as divided up on a monthly basis; and Tanya, as divided on a yearly basis by my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe, hk"m.[624]

With wishes for all types of good,

M. Schneerson

(The response to your telegram certainly reached you.)

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Without committing myself to a vow, I will mention your names and that of your aunt — in the room and at the gravesite [of my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe, hk"m] — [for blessing] in all that is necessary, as requested in your letter.

Certainly, you recite — without committing yourself to a vow — the Rebbe's kapitle in Tehillim (which is now kapitle 71)[625] every day and [will continue] doing so at least until Yud Shvat, 5711. See the sichah in the kuntres of Yud-Beis Tammuz, 5700, sec. 11.[626]

With wishes for all forms of good and with the blessing of mazel tov for bringing your son into the covenant of Avraham our ancestor. May you raise him — together with your other children — to Torah, marriage, and good deeds.

   

Notes:

620. (Back to text) [Zohar III, p. 71b; see also Chulin 7b; cited by Tanya, Iggeres HaKodesh, Epistle 27.]

621. (Back to text) [See Letters No. 624 and 706 where similar sentiments are expressed.]

622. (Back to text) [The Hebrew terms the Rebbe uses: ha'arah, translated as "to be informed" and ha'arah, "ray of light," sound alike.]

623. (Back to text) [Cf. Yeshayahu 41:6.]

624. (Back to text) [I.e., Chitas;see the Igros Kodesh of the Rebbe Rayatz, Vol. VI, Letter No. 1890; the Rebbe's Igros Kodesh, Letters No. 561, 706, 708, et al.]

625. (Back to text) [See Letter No. 644.]

626. (Back to text) [Sefer HaMaamarim 5710, pp. 263-264.]

Blessings for health; questions regarding a woman's conduct during pregnancy

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