By the Grace of G‑dIn the Days of Selichoth, 5722Brooklyn, N.Y.

Greeting and Blessing:

With the approach of Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the New Year, may it bring blessings to us all, I send you and all yours my prayerful wishes for a good and happy year, materially and spiritually.

With the traditional blessing of

כתיבה וחתימה טובה

Cordially

M. Schneerson

P.S. I have just received your letter, and I was, of course, pleased to read about the improvement in business. May G‑d grant that this, too, continue at a growing pace, and that it be in accord with the Old Rebbe’s teaching: “G‑d turns ruchnius into gashmius and the Jewish people turn gashmius into ruchnius” (see Hayom Yom on Elul 27; p. 91).

With regard to my position relating to siddur Chuppah and Kiddushin,¹ you can gather it from the fact that in about two weeks a cousin of mine will be married in N.Y. to a talmid of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, but the mesader Kiddushin will be one of the Anash Rabbonim.

Enclosed is a copy of my Rosh Hashanah message,² which, although it will reach you after Rosh Hashanah, is actually of timely interest all year round.