Letter a

By the Grace of G-d 13th of Kislev, 5718 Brooklyn, New York

Yeshiva Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch

92 Hotham Street

East St. Kilda, Victoria

Melbourne, Australia

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Greeting and Blessing:

Following is the text of the Rebbe’s Shlito telegram to the occasion of the 'foundation stone laying' of Yeshiva Day School:

“PRAYERFULLY HOPE FOUNDATION EVENT WILL IMPRESS EVERYONE [OF THE] VITAL NECESSITY OF YESHIVAH STIMULATING EARLY COMPLETION AND [MAY THE] NEW BUILDING BE [A] FORERUNNER OF ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS FOR EVER-GROWING STUDENT BODY. MAY [THE] MEMORY AND EXAMPLE [OF] MOSHE [AND] LEAH FEIGLIN¹ INSPIRE EVERYONE TO DO [THEIR] MAXIMUM SHARE

[WITH] BLESSING —

MENACHEM SCHNEERSON"

We will appreciate your sending us a detailed report of the abovementioned occasion.

With blessing

N. Mindel

Secretary

Notes and sources

1) Rabbi Moshe Zalman (1875—1957) and Shprintze Leah (c. 1885—1950) Feiglin, the first Lubavitcher Chassidim to settle in Australia, and were early pioneer of Jewish life on the continent. See also above, letter dated 8 Elul, 5717.

Source: Photocopy of Original.

Published: Rebbe Responsa exclusive.

An Australian Cornerstone