By the Grace of G-d11th of Adar I, 5722Brooklyn, N.Y.

Greeting and Blessing:

Your letter of the 3rd of Teveth reached me with some delay. Needless to say, I read with interest about your present way of life in your present surroundings in the Holy Land.

You surely know of the saying of the Baal ha-Tanya and Shulchan Aruch to the effect that a Jew must live with the times, meaning, of course, the weekly portion of the Torah, and thus be up-to-date with the Torah.¹ And as we are presently reading the portions of the Torah dealing with the construction of the Sanctuary, it should remind every Jew about his obligation to create Sanctuaries for the Divine Shechinah in accordance with G-d's commandment, "Let them make me a Sanctuary that I may dwell among them,"² that is to say within every Jew.³ And in view of the fact that we are commanded to regard the Torah as new every day,⁴ we must be constantly inspired by the reading in the Torah, insofar as every aspect of the daily life is concerned.

Hoping to hear good news from you,

With blessing,

By Nissan Mindel