Guidance and insight for efforts in locating a long-lost parent
By the Grace of G-d
12th of Iyar, 5727
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Blessing and Greeting:
I duly received your special delivery letter in which you write about the complications you have encountered in trying to locate your natural father.
In view of what you write, there is no imperative need for you to expend large sums of money for this purpose. This would certainly not be called for if the investigations might in some way prove embarrassing to him. Hence the idea of employing an agency and the like, as you mention in your letter, should be rejected.
As for the suggestion that Rabbi . . . or Rabbi . . . should make discreet inquiries through friends in the place where your father lives, this would be worthwhile doing if it would not involve any special difficulties. It is necessary to bear in mind that in view of the fact that your father could easily locate you, and yet has not done so, this is indicative that while it would be well for you if you could locate him without trouble, there is no absolute necessity that you should go too much out of your way to locate him.
I trust that the other matters about which we talked with you and your husband when you were here are in a satisfactory state and are advancing in the right direction.
The present month, unlike any other month of the year, is also a particularly auspicious one, inasmuch as each day of this month has a special Mitzvo Counting of the Omer, and each and every day of the month therefore has a special blessing. May every day also bring you and yours additional blessing in steady succession.
With blessing,
M. Schneerson
