The name of the recipient of this letter was not released.

B”H, 11 Teves, 5711,
Brooklyn

Greetings and blessings,

In reply to your letter from the night following Shabbos Vayigash in which you inform me that it seems that your wife has become pregnant and that, thank G‑d, everything is going well, but that she is weak.

At present, you should conceal the matter as much as possible. May G‑d grant that everything go well and at the appropriate time. Certainly, [your wife] sees an expert doctor from time to time and follows his instructions.

You will undoubtedly notify [me] from time to time about her good health, i.e., that she feels fine.

You also informed me that you are now serving as the mashgiach1of the studies in nigleh2in [the study hall of Yeshivas] Tomchei Temimim.3 May it be G‑d’s will that your influence on the students lead to goodness and blessing. It is well known from [the past] that even though a mashgiach in nigleh must carefully oversee the students in that branch of study, for these [efforts] to have the appropriate [measure of] success, he must carefully oversee his own conduct in the realm of Chassidus.

May G‑d enable each of us to merit to carry out our mission in this world and to merit that my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe, הכ"מ, could point to us and say: “Look at the progeny that I have produced.”4

Certainly, you keep the schedule of Chitas5and your wife donates to the charity of Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes.6

With blessing, awaiting good news,

Menachem Schneerson