5746
Mr. . . .
Buffalo, New York 14222
Greeting and Blessing:
This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter; and may HaShem grant the fulfillment of your heart’s desires for the good in regard to yourself and all your family, including the matter that is of immediate concern.
More specifically, there is surely no need to emphasize to you the importance of preserving the family unity and harmony, especially the praiseworthy act of remarrying one’s divorced wife1 and how it is connected with special divine blessings for healthy children, through which the proper channel is of course, reestablishing the mutual life on the basis of the Torah and mitzvot, as set forth in the Shulchan Aruch. There is also the assurance that when one is determined to do a good thing, he receives special help from On High.2
With blessing,
Notes and sources
See also Igros Kodesh, vol. 38 (5746; Simpson), p. 96, about a women requesting to return to her divorced husband.
1) In The Letter and the Spirit, Vol. 1, and the Teshurah the following lines appear differently than they appear here, and appear as follows: ... (as long as she had not been involved in a second marriage). Moreover, the act of remarrying is connected with special divine blessings for healthy offspring, and all other blessings connected with reestablishing the mutual...
2) See Yuma 38b.
Published: The Letter and the Spirit, Vol 1 (Nissan Mindel Publications, 1998), 400; Teshura (Geisensky, 16 Cheshvan, 5774); The Letter and the Spirit, vol 6 (Nissan Mindel Publications, 2023), p. 117.
Note: This letter is 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 letter as it appears here may not be the final signed version.
Source & Link: The Letter & The Spirit 1, pg. 400: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I3UZjvXPaG4TiR1h42KBrz4G21JrdCVv/view?usp=drivesdk
Alternative Source:
Alternative Source: Mindel Teshurah, 5774--02-16, Geisensky p. 40
LAS 6: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14RDUBjPP_JA6NiecgIKjZcvsPl5xyWDB/view?usp=drive_link