By the Grace of G-d
28th of Sivan, 5724
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rabbi . . .
Glen Oaks, L. Is., N.Y.
Greeting and Blessing:
No doubt you have received my acknowledgment to your previous letter. And inasmuch as I have just received your new letter, and we are on the eve of the month of Tammuz with its auspicious day of the 12th of Tammuz, the Liberation Day of my father-in-law of saintly memory, I want to add a few lines to emphasize one of the important lessons of this day.
The Liberation Day of my father-in-law teaches every one of us that to trust in G-d is the channel to receive G-d's blessing for success in everything that is done by one’s own personal efforts, in the natural order of things. Moreover trust in G-d is the channel to receive G-d's blessings even in a supernatural way, if necessary.
Therefore no matter what the predicament may be, it is necessary to have absolute trust in G-d, and then, as King David said in behalf of all our people, “G-d is with me, I shall not fear.”
Furthermore, inasmuch as G-d has called our people His “children”, surely there can be no closer unity than that of the closeness of a father and children.
In regard to this the saintly Baal Shem Tov has said that “G-d loves every Jew more than a father loves his one and only son born at his old age.”
With blessing
M. Schneerson
