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

B”H, Purim Katan, 5711,
Brooklyn

Greetings and blessings,

In reply to your letter, [delivered] by the members of your household asking whether to extend or cut short your journeys1 because of the rise in the exchange rate of the country’s currency:

In my opinion, you should not change your pattern because of this matter. All the profit which is appropriate for you in connection with this journey will certainly reach you to a full extent: whether because the exchange rate rises or due to other factors. What difference does this make to you?

Seemingly, those who merited a good portion, to be closely involved with Torah concerns and its support and to be distant from the world of business — why would they think deeply and devote the labor of their minds to the intricacies of finance and the like? With regard to them, the Torah’s charge2 “And G‑d... will bless you in all that you do” is fulfilled in a complete sense by making a medium for their livelihood in an ordinary manner.3 Their powers of intellectual creativity, comprehension, and depth of thought (and, needless to say, their [power of] bonding, should be focused on the matters of Torah and its support. It is the responsibility of the Holy One, blessed be He, to provide abundant and extraordinary success in material and spiritual matters through these ordinary mediums. For this is the appropriate measure [to draw down Divine blessing].

Enclosed is a letter to the young man about whom you wrote. [I am sending it to you because] I don’t know his address. Thank you for the effort in delivering my letter.

With greetings to all “our Jews”; the latter phrase should be interpreted as in the words of my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe: “‘Our Jews’ means Jews that are connected to the Torah and its mitzvos.” (And which of the descendants of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov are not connected to the Torah and its mitzvos?) May you be successful in your affairs.