By the Grace of G-d 16th Menachem Av, 5732 Brooklyn, N.Y.

Mr. 

Greeting and Blessing: Your letter reached with some delay. 

Needless to say, it is difficult to reply in a letter even to some of the matters about which you write, much less to all of them. I therefore suggest that you should get in touch with the Lubavitch group who will be able to clear up for you the matters about which you write. 

In order to leave no room for misunderstanding, I must at once clarify one point and that is that every Jew, regardless of his past education and upbringing, is expected to live up to the Jewish way of life, as it is set forth in the Shulchan Aruch (Jewish Code of daily conduct) which is a condensation of the directives and imperatives of our holy Torah both the Written Torah and Oral Torah. There is no substitute for this through any other way of life, insofar as a Jew is concerned, just as there is no substitute for the truth, though there could be various compromises, while truth is one, and that is the Torah, for the Torah is Truth. 

It is only that G-d desires every man to utilize his capacities to the full and that he should have free choice of action, yet should choose the right way, as the Torah says, "Choose life." Obviously if all other ways would appear unacceptable even at first glance, there would be no need to mobilize all one's capacities to see what the truth is and what is a compromise, or the opposite of truth. 

A further essential point to bear in mind is that time is irretrievable, and each day that a Jew lets go by without living it in accordance with the Torah of Truth in the fullest measure, is an irretrievable loss. For this reason I am sending this letter by special delivery, and ahead of its turn, so that you should be able to get in touch with the suggested Contacts in L.A. without delay, and may G-d grant that it should be with hatzlocho. 

It is self understood that all that has been written above is meant not only for you, but also to all the Jews in your present surroundings which you mention. 

It is also self understood that the above is not intended to cast aspersions, G-d forbid, on any non-Jewish or any other way of life. I only want to emphasize what is good and essential for Jews, while the non-Jews have other purposes and tasks which are also clearly set forth in our Torah, Toras Emes, which embraces the whole universe. However his is not the place to go into detail as to the place of the gentile world in the universe, since we are now concerned directly with you, as a son of our Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac und Jacob, inasmuch as a Jew who is born as a Jew remains a Jew, although he has the free choice of 'choosing life" as mentioned or otherwise, G-d forbid. 

May G-d grant that you should have good news to report in all above. 

Perhaps you may consider the above as rather outspoken. However, my impression of your letter is that the more clearly and explicitly things are stated, leaving room for no misunderstanding, save irretrievable time, so I endeavored to be outspoken even at the risk that you might form an inexact image of me personally. 

With blessing,