Igrot Kodesh · Letter 918 — Shlichus & Outreach

By the grace of Hashem,

9 Adar Rishon 5711,

Brooklyn,

To the Rav, distinguished chassid* who fears Hashem,

Rav Shlomo[1],

Greetings and blessing,

I have learned that you have, baruch Hashem*, finally obtained an entry visa to Morocco. You will now be able to settle the details of your trip with the great Rav, distinguished chassid who fears Hashem, Rav Binyamin Gorodetzki.

May all this come about at the appropriate moment, so that our shlichus* in Morocco be fulfilled, and the Ner Tamid*[2] illuminate that country—the light of the mitzvah* which, through Chassidus*, will shine in the most satisfying manner.

For this, one must prepare this light from the previous evening[3], despite the screens, barriers, obstacles, and impediments, and preserve it thus until the morning. In this way, there will first be darkness and then light, as Torah Or* explains at the end of the maamar* entitled "V'Atah Tetzaveh."

With my blessing of success and good health, for you and your wife,

M. Schneerson,

I read the request for a blessing that you sent me on the day of the Hilula*, at the tziyun* of the Frierdiker Rebbe*.

Notes

[1] Rav S. Matusof. See, regarding him, letter no. 818.

[2] In Hebrew, Ner Tamid—like the light of the Menorah which, in the Beis HaMikdash*, burned continually.

[3] As was done in the Beis HaMikdash for the Ner Tamid.