By the Grace of G-d 16th of Adar, 5740 Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dr. . . .
Greeting and Blessing:
Thank you very much for the copy of . . . as well as the enclosed reprints.
Although the subject matter is not in my domain, I trust that I will be able to glean something useful from these texts. Especially as we live in a world where everything is so intimately interrelated, so that there is an underlying unity in all the multiplicity, as it is brought out in the Chabad philosophy. Indeed, modern science has also shown a tendency to find some unifying principle in the physical world, as you surely know.
There is no need to add that the concept of monotheism in general and especially in its purest form as reflected in our Torah and Jewish religion, is a corollary of the recognition that there is One Creator and one creative force in the universe, and although with King David, the Sweet Singer of Israel, we say, “How manifold are Your works, oh G-d”, it is immediately followed by the declaration “All of them You made in wisdom.”
With esteem and blessing,
Notes and sources
Published: The Letter and the Spirit, Vol 4 (Nissan Mindel Publications, 2017), 336.
Note: Letters printed in "The Letters and The Spirit" are from the Archives of Rabbi Nissan Mindel A"H, the Rebbe's personal secretary entrusted with writing up the Rebbe's orally dictated responses. The “Nissan Mindel Archives” are comprised of secretarial copies, including first drafts, and may have subsequently been published with editorial changes. Therefore the letters as they appear in the book may not be the final signed version.