By the Grace of G-d 3rd of Nissan, 5721 Brooklyn, N. Y

Greeting and Blessing:

I was pleased to receive your letter of March 11th, in which you write that you have joined the Yeshiva of Lud, and will begin your studies there immediately after Pesach.

You mention that you are fully aware of your limitations, etc. But actually, since every Jew has a Divine soul, whereby he is connected with and attached to the En Sof, there are no limitations as long as this attachment is kept strong. This is also the secret of Jewish existence and survival against all the limitations of nature, and in defiance of all the natural laws. For, in the natural order of things, the chances of Jewish survival are those of the survival of a lamb surrounded by seventy wolves, as our Sages say.¹ This is also the central message of the Festival of Pesach, which has established that the Jewish people are not subject to the laws of nature, time and place, but to the Divine Providence, and that in each generation this history repeats itself in one way or another. The Old Rebbe, author of the Tanya, emphasized still further that every day each and every one of us should identify himself with the experience of Yetzi[a]s Mitzraim in every aspect of his daily life.²

Wishing you a Kosher and happy Pesach,

With blessing,

By Nissan Mindel