By the Grace of G-d5th of Menachem Av, 5724Brooklyn, N. Y.

Blessing and Greeting:

This is to confirm receipt of your letter of the 21st of Tammuz written by your honorary secretary, reporting on the activities and also about the plans for the general meeting.

May G-d grant that all these efforts to strengthen and spread Yiddishkeit should be successful.

Efforts to advance in all matters of Torah and Mitzvoth are particularly timely at this time when we are commemorating the Destruction of the Beth Hamikdash and the beginning of the present Exile. For, as we say in our prayers, "Because of our sins we have been exiled from our land."¹ Therefore it is necessary to reduce the cause, namely the neglect of the Torah and Mitzvoth., in order to reduce the effect, namely the Destruction and Exile, and every effort in this direction, to the extent of eliminating altogether the cause of the events commemorated in these days, will hasten the complete Redemption of our people through our righteous Moshiach.

With blessing,

By Nissan Mindel