Igrot Kodesh · Letter 4173 — Health

B"H

19 Adar 5716

Brooklyn

I greet you and bless you,

I duly received your letter from the middle of Shevat, whose delivery took longer than usual. I hope that by the time you receive this letter, your state of health will have improved and that you will have resumed your work, including in the communal domain, with the appropriate energy. Indeed, the need of the hour is that all those who are motivated for Yiddishkeit* should be generous toward others and explain to them that "Yisrael*, the Torah*, and the Holy One, blessed be He, are all one."

Concerning your personal worries, you can reason with the following kal v'chomer*: If one who faithfully carries out communal activities is, at that time, exempted from fulfilling mitzvos* and studying Torah*, how much more must he be freed by Hashem* from his worries and material contingencies. Herein lies one of the means to improve your material livelihood and to encounter no difficulty in this domain or in others.

You surely made the most of the days of Purim*. The Megillah* says that "many from among the nations of the land became Jews." This means also, at least by way of allusion, that those who until Purim* were still "nations of the land" — meaning preoccupied solely with material matters — have now become "Jews." And our Sages emphasize that Yisrael* was called by this name because of their rejection of idolatry.

This means that in all things, one must seek — and therefore find — the Divine. For if one considers that Hashem* does not intervene in certain domains, one thereby defines two authorities, and one is then an idolater. You will understand this.

With my blessing for good health, to convey good tidings, and for a kosher* and joyous Pesach*,