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Mr. . .
Greeting and Blessing:
In response to the information about your forthcoming marriage on Lag B ’Omer, the 18th day of Iyar.
I am confident that both of you are firmly resolved to establish your home and family life on the foundations of the Torah and mitzvot, which alone insures that it will be a binyan adei ad, an everlasting edifice, blessed by the Source of All Blessings, the Giver of the Torah and mitzvot.
We have the assurance of the Torah that when there is a real determination and commitment to live the everyday life in accordance with the Torah, it is easier to carry out the task than one imagined it would be.
I extend to you prayerful wishes for the fulfillment of the traditional blessing:
Mazal tov, mazal tov, I’binyan adei-ad aly’sodei haTorah v 'ha mitzvot.
With blessing,
Notes and sources
Published: The Letter and the Spirit, Vol 1 (Nissan Mindel Publications, 1998), 357.
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.