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By the Grace of G-d
Erev Shabbos-Kodesh p. Mishpotim
Mevorchim Chodesh Adar, P. Shekolim, 5740. Brooklyn, N.Y.
To All Friends of Beth Rivkah and to the Participants in the Annual Dinner in particular
Greeting and Blessing:
I was pleased to be informed about the forthcoming Dinner taking place on the 7th of Adar.
No doubt the seventh day of Adar was chosen for this event because it is the birthday of Mosheh Rabbeinu - an auspicious day for Jews in general, and for activities connected with Torah in particular. For the essential aspect of Mosheh Rabbeinu is that he brought down the Torah to our Jewish people, taught it, and dedicated his life to it, so that the entire Torah, Toras haShem, was named after him - Toras Mosheh.
In light of the above, it is clear that this day has a special significance for Jewish women and daughters, since they were the first to be approached by Mosheh Rabbeinu to accept the Torah, as indicated in the well known verse "Speak to the house of Jacob (meaning, the women) and (then) declare to the sons of Israel (the men)."
Thus the seventh day of Adar is particularly fitting for the annual event in behalf of Beth Rivkah - the educational institution for girls founded by my father-in-law of saintly memory and conducted in his spirit - where Jewish daughters are educated in full accord with "The Torah which Mosheh commanded us, the inheritance of the community of Jacob," and will indeed establish Jewish homes and raise generations on the foundations of the Torah and Mitzvos.
I feel confident that all friends of Beth Rivkah will surely make a special effort (if this be called for) to enlarge their own help, and to involve others to do likewise, in order to make sure that this precious Torah-true institution will continue to keep its doors wide open, so that not a single Jewish daughter need remain outside, G-d forbid, for lack of financial means.
In this Zechus, wide open will be kept also the channels to receive G-d’s blessings for yourselves and your families, in all needs, materially and spiritually.
With esteem and blessing for Hatzlocho
/Signed: Menachem Schneerson/
