By the Grace of G-dRosh Chodesh Kislev, 5737. Brooklyn, N. Y.

Blessing and Greeting:

    I have just received your letter of Nov. 15th, and enclosures. Thank you very much for the gratification which your report about your activities has brought me.

   I was pleased to read in your letter that you have been elected to be the chairperson at the forthcoming "Hassidic Happening." Since everything is by Hashgocho Protis, it is certain that you have the capacities to carry out all that this position expects of you, since G-d does not give one a task beyond one's capacity.

    May G-d grant the fulfillment in your case of the saying of our Sages, "He who has 100, desires 200," etc., meaning that ambition grows with achievement, which should especially be the case in regard to real achievements in terms of eternal values, Torah and Mitzvoth. This will also bring additional Divine blessings in regard to the problem you mention in your personal letter.

    I will remember you and your immediate family in prayer, as requested, and may G-d grant that you should have good news to report also in regard to all personal and family matters.

    Especially as we have now entered the auspicious month of Kislev, highlighted by the Chag HaGeulo, Yud-Tes Kislev and Chanukah.

With blessing,

M. Schneerson

P.S. In light of the well known interpretation of the saying, "Out of strong came sweetness" (Jud. 14:14), I trust that the big to-do that was made in regard to a possible grant for the Chabad House which turned out to be irrelevant because Washington had no such grants available — there will also be some "sweetness" from it in terms of greater concern for the Chabad House and a rapprochement on the part of those who have hitherto been unfriendly or even less than that, and that the erstwhile opponents will become proponents and true friends and supporters, recognizing the vital importance of Torah Chinuch, and will share in the feeling that as long as there is a single Jewish child that does not receive a proper Torah Chinuch, it is the personal responsibility of every individual Jew, a primary obligation of the community at large, to provide that child with an adequate Torah Chinuch.