THE DEDICATION OF SHLUCHIM IN ACTION
By the Grace of G-d
Erev Shovuoth, 5722
Brooklyn, N.Y,
Mr. Chayim Yaakov Lipschitz
168 Warberton Avenue,
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
...In view of your mentioning that you plan a trip to Europe and to work in Italy, I trust you may have an opportunity to visit Milan and get acquainted with a young couple, Rabbi and Mrs. Garelik (Via Giulio Uberti 41).
Rabbi Garelik was born, and for the first decade of his life brought up, under the Bolshevik regime. His wife is an American born girl, who gave up all the amenities of American life to join her husband in a mission to spread Yiddishkeit in Italy, especially among the young generation.
Despite initial difficulties and the language problem, they have succeeded in their work thanks to their dedication and inspiration which have won them recognition and admiration.
It goes to emphasize the common bonds which unite Jewish people everywhere by means of the Torah and Mitzvoth which are eternal and know of no boundaries.
In a sense, the art of sculpture is analogous, in that by means of the creative idea it animates the inanimate raw material, giving it form and life that evoke responses in the viewer...
POSITIVE INFLUENCE IN THE CLASSROOM
By the Grace of G-d
8th of Kislev, 5718
Brooklyn, N. Y
Mrs. Ratze Schildkraut
88 Kensington St.
New Haven, 11 Conn.
Blessing and Greeting:
I was pleased to receive your letter of the 28th of Marcheshvan, in which you write that you started teaching. Judging from the tone of your letter, you seem to be satisfied.
I am particularly gratified that you have clearly noted the improvements in the Yeshiva matters, and I trust that this will strengthen your faith in G-d, that everything will continue to improve in the future, even those things, which, for the present, do not seem to be quite in order, for all that G-d does is for good.
With regard to your writing that your children are nervous and not sufficiently attentive to their studies, this is a frequent occurrence with children, and is no ground for anxiety, especially as the conditions are stationary and not getting worse, G-d forbid.
One of the ways to improve matters would be that they should be in the company with other children of their age, so that they will, instinctively, try not to be different, and the condition will pass in due course.
Certainly it would not be advisable to make an issue of it, or let the child feel any exaggerated anxiety on your part.
Furthermore, you should quite dismiss from your mind any thought that this may have anything to do with your pregnancy.
At the same time, your work, as well as that of your husband, in the field of Kosher education, will surely stand you both in good stead, to have true Nachas, which is Yiddish Nachas, from your children.
With blessing,