B.H. 15th of Cheshvan, 5723 Brooklyn, N.Y.

Greeting and Blessing:

I was pleased to receive your regards through Mr. Virdiger, who informed me that there has been some improvement in your health. Your prolonged silence had caused some anxiety. I trust, however, that it was not matters of health or business that had prevented you from writing, but rather your preoccupation with the affairs of the Yeshiva and Beth Rivkah. For, as we had occasion to discuss it several times, every one of us is expected to do his utmost to advance holiness steadily and increasingly.

Nor should there be any lack of confidence, since the duties and responsibilities imposed upon us come coupled with the abilities and opportunities to discharge them fully. And the success which you and your co-workers have enjoyed in this work should serve as a further stimulation to even greater accomplishments. If in material matters our Sages declared "He who has one hundred desires two hundred, and he who has two hundred desires four hundred"¹ (not being satisfied with the addition of a mere one hundred), how much more so should the sights be raised in spiritual matters.

I hope and pray that the above will be fulfilled in your case in every respect, in health and personal and public affairs, to be enjoyed together with your wife, who undoubtedly is a source of encouragement to you, and your children, and family at large. The merit of your father, of blessed memory, will also stand you in good stead.

I trust that you and yours have had an inspiring Tishrei, with its concluding message of Simchas Torah, and may the joy and inspiration be with you throughout the year.

With blessing