By the Grace of G-d 28th of Marcheshvan, 5725 Brooklyn, N.Y.

Blessing and Greeting,

I received your letter in which you write about the question of the continuation of your studies after high school.

I agree with the view of your father that if you wish to continue your studies, it should be within the framework of the Beis Rifka or Beis Yaakov Seminary. For if at all times the Jewish daughters and women had to take their vital place in the preservation of all our people, how much more so in the recent day and age, as has been amply emphasized in various talks at the Farbrengens. This task can be fulfilled in two ways:

1) In the conduct of one’s own home, as a Jewish home should be conducted, in a way that it should have also a beneficial influence on all the surrounding Jewish homes, or

2) In the field of Chinuch, where Jewish women have a special approach and a special capacity, particularly in relation to the Chinuch of small children, whether boys or girls.

The program of study which you have in mind cannot, so far as I can see, contribute to the fulfillment of the said most vital task and is certainly no substitute for it. On the contrary, to the extent that your attention will be taken up with other matters, it will be detrimental to the fulfillment of your task. Unfortunately it would be detrimental even to the first aspect mentioned above, namely the conduct of one’s own home. For, experience has shown that where the attention of the wife is concentrated on such things as a career, etc., neglect of the fulfillment of one’s task as akeres habayis in the fullest measure has been inescapable.

I trust that you and your sister participate in activities to strengthen Yiddishkeit through the Mesibos Shabbos, etc.

With blessing,