By the Grace of G-d27th of Nissan, 5741Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rabbi . . .
Lake Hiawatha N. J. 07034
Greeting and Blessing:
This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter with the enclosure. Enclosed please find a copy of the letter from the Secretariat, which is self explanatory.
Inasmuch as everything is by Divine Providence, I wish to take this opportunity of calling your attention to a timely matter as we are coming into the season when parents begin to make plans about their children’s summer vacation, day camps and sleep-in camps, etc.
This is, therefore, the time to impress upon parents the importance of the summer vacation in the education of their children, as it provides a very good opportunity to give the children a full Jewish atmosphere in a Torah-true summer camp or day camp. And although as regards themselves, parents may be satisfied with a minimum or average of good things, nothing but the best is good enough when it comes to children. Therefore, they would be well advised to give the children the maximum Yiddishkeit at least during these summer months.
Thank you for your good wishes, which I heartily reciprocate.
With blessing,
Notes and sources
Published: The Letter and the Spirit, Vol 3 (Nissan Mindel Publications, 2016), 162.
Note: Letters printed in "The Letter 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.