By the Grace of G-d 28th of Adar, 5734 Brooklyn, N. Y.

Greeting and Blessing:

It is with some delay that I received the information about your marriage. However, a blessing is always timely, and I take this opportunity to extend to you and to your wife my prayerful wishes for a Binyan Adei Ad.

It is surely unnecessary to emphasize to you at length that the said expression for a lasting and happy marriage is very meaningful. For, in comparing marriage to an everlasting edifice, as it is called in the blessings under the Chuppa, the young couple are reminded that the important thing in marriage is the foundation. And insofar as the foundation is concerned, the important thing is not how it appears to the outsider, but that it should be of the most durable material, the kind of material that had been tested and found reliable to withstand all possible erosions, etc.

I am, therefore, confident that both you and your wife have firmly resolved to establish your married life and family on the foundations of the eternal Torah and Mitzvoth, especially as they are illuminated by the light, joy and vitality of Chasidus.

With the blessing of Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov,

M Schneerson