By the Grace of G-d
3rd of Menachem Av, 5720
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Mr. Aron Dov Sufrin
26 Linthorpe Road
London, N .16
Greeting and Blessing:
After a very long interval, I received your letter of the 27th of Tammuz. Needless to say, you need not apologize for writing in English, for the important thing is not the language but the contents of the letter.
I was especially gratified to read about the progress of the Lubavitcher House, and especially about the increase in the number of students and campers in Camp Gan Israel. I have often emphasized that the summer in general, and camp activities in particular, offer extraordinary opportunities to benefit the children, whose attention is not distracted by secular studies during the summer.
I hope you will make efforts in this direction, and thus also create and widen the channels to receive G-d’s blessing for Parnosso. I further hope that you will carry on your activities in a spirit of complete faith in the Almighty, and with confidence and joy, as taught by the saintly Baal Shem Tov, whose 200th anniversary of the completion of his life’s work coincides with the current year.
Hoping to hear good news from you,
With blessing,
4th of Tammuz, 5728 [1968]
Greeting and Blessing:
I received your letter of the 5th of July, which reached me with some delay.
You are quite right that I was surprised at the tenor of your letter. For although such a mood would be quite understandable in regard to another person, it does not harmonize with a believing Jew. As we have talked about it many times, there is every reason to hope with certainty that all the difficulties and setbacks in the Parnossoh [livelihood] situation will be overcome.
You should be quite strong in your Bitachon [faith] in G-d that the time will come - and may G-d grant that it should be very soon - when both of you will realize that the difficulties and trials of the past were Divine blessings in disguise and will be able to say, “I thank Thee O G-d for having been “angry” with me” (Isa. 12:1), for you will see how much G-d’s kindnesses have recompensed you for the past, in regard to Parnosso, good name, etc., and above all, in the area of true Yiddish Nachas [Jewish pleasure] from your children.
With blessings,
26 of Tammuz, 5743 [1983]
Greeting and Blessing:
I received your correspondence.
In general, I have already expressed my opinion on the matters about which you wrote, and will again remember you in prayer for the fulfillment of your heart’s desires for good.
Now that we are in the period of the Three Weeks, commemorating the sad events which led to the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh [Holy Temple] and the dispersement of our people, we are reminded that every one of us has to do all in one’s power to minimize and eventually eliminate the cause that brought about the Destruction and Exile. The only cause of it is clearly spelled out in our Mussaf [additional prayer said on Sabbath and holidays] Prayer: “Be cause of our sins we have been exiled from our land.” If alienation from the Jewish way of life, the way of the Torah and Mitzvos has been the cause of the Golus [exile], every one of us must work all the harder to bring Jews closer to the Torah and Mitzvos. Thus, every effort in this direction brings all the nearer the appearance of Moshiach Tzidkeinu [Our Righteous Moshiach], who will usher in the true and complete Geulah [Redemption]. May it come speedily in our days.
With blessing,
