By the Grace of G-d10th of Kislev, 5736Brooklyn, N. Y.

Greeting and Blessing:

I was pleased to receive the reports about your work in connection with the project of the month of Marcheshvan and especially the 20th of the month.

I was gratified to see the devotion and effort which you put into this project. May G-d grant that you should go from strength to strength in your studies and good conduct, keeping in mind the promise of our Sages of blessed memory, "Try hard and you will succeed."¹

As we have now entered the month of Kislev highlighted by the festival of Chanukah, we are once again reminded about the need to advance steadily in all matters of Torah and Mitzvoth. For as has often been mentioned, the lights of Chanukah are kindled in growing numbers from day to day. Although when one kindles one light on the first night of Chanukah, the Mitzvo is fulfilled to perfection, yet when a day passes, what was good and perfect the day before, is not good enough now, and one more candle has to be lit on the second night of Chanukah, and still one more on the third and so forth. This teaches us that the light of the Torah and Mitzvoth, of which the Chanukah lights remind us, has to be spread in a growing measure, to light up yourself, your home, and everything around you with the light of Torah and Mitzvoth.

Wishing you a bright and inspiring Chanukah,

With blessing,

M. Schneerson