3900 —קביעות בעבודה, והקדמת החתונה לחודש כסלו

B"H, 25 MarCheshvan, 5716

Brooklyn.

Greetings and blessing!

In response to your letter of the 15th of Cheshvan. Your not writing during this entire time is not understood at all, although during this half year you were to be occupied with the work of Heaven in institutions whose purpose is to bring the hearts of Jewish boys and girls close to our Father in Heaven, and it is understood and obvious how great the interest in this should be...

It is understood that the work must be permanent work (and not as a trial and an apprenticeship, in the manner of temporary work, as you may perhaps have conducted it until now, and this is the reason you have not written. If so, it is a wonder and a very great surprise, after what is said in Tanya at the end of ch. 25: "ויחוד זה למעלה הוא נצחי לעולם ועד" — "and this union above is eternal, forever and ever". And the saying of my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe, is already known: in the journeys in the wilderness, even at a stop of the kind "או יומם ולילה ויסעו" — "or a day and a night, and they journeyed" (Bamidbar 9:21), they set up the Mishkan in all its details and particulars, just as at the stop where they stayed eighteen years).

As for fixing the time of the wedding, my opinion is that it should be moved up, and how good [it would be] in the month of Kislev, which is the month of redemption; and nothing stands in the way of the will.

With blessing that you choose your "choice portion" (cf. Rashi on Devarim 30:19), which is your gateway to all the elevations from below to above

and the drawing-down from above to below, and that you do this with joy and gladness of heart.

Publisher's notes

The saying (פתגם): see also above, vol. 6, letter 1563.