By the Grace of G-d14th of Elul, 5739Brooklyn, N.Y.

Greeting and Blessings:

I am in receipt of your (undated) letter.

I trust it is unnecessary to emphasize to you at length that no human being, certainly no Jew, must ever be despondent, even under the most trying circumstances, such as you experienced.

Our Divine Torah, called Toras Emes, because it speaks the real truth and is not just a tranquilizer, declares that a person is never alone, and must have absolute trust in G-d and in His benevolent Providence that extends to everyone individually. It may be difficult to reconcile this with a misfortune, G-d forbid, that befalls a person, but it should not be surprising that a human being cannot understand the ways of G-d. If it is not surprising that a small child cannot understand the ways of a Sage or scientist, even though the difference between them is only relative in terms of age and knowledge, and some day that child may even surpass the Sage or scientist, it should certainly not be surprising that a created human being cannot understand the ways of the Creator, where the difference is absolute and incomparable.

In your case, it is particularly important to strengthen your trust in G-d, so that you could take care of your . . . small children which He blessed you with, and entrusted to you. There is surely no need to emphasize to you how most important it is for the upbringing of children to have a confident and optimistic approach in regard to the future, both yours and theirs, in order to bring them up in full accord with the traditional blessing - to a life of Torah, Chuppah and Good Deeds.

There is surely also no need to emphasize to you at length that since all blessings come from G-d, and the channels to receive them is through adherence to His Will, namely to the way of the Torah and Mitzvoth in the everyday life, every additional effort in this direction widens the channels to receive G-d's blessings in all needs.

Wishing you and yours,

With blessing,