This letter was addressed to R. Efraim Eliezer HaKohen Yolles, one of the leading Rabbis in Philadelphia.

B”H, 22 Adar I, 5711,
Brooklyn

Greetings and blessings,

I received your letter stating that a meeting was scheduled last week concerning your matters. Certainly, if there are happy tidings from this, inform me as well so I can also rejoice.

With the blessing that the statement from the Torah reading of this Shabbos will be fulfilled in our time:1 “When you raise up the heads of the children of Israel” in this, the year of Tissa.2[The allusion to the year 5711 is valid because] “the manner in which a term is read is a source [for deriving concepts from it]”3 and the term is read as if it included a yud (see the commentaries on Rashi at the conclusion of Parshas Shelach;4 see also Tosafos, s.v., lo, Menachos 39a; Likkutei Torah, Parshas Behar, the maamar entitled Es Shabsosei, the conclusion of sec. 1; to use the wording of the Zohar, Vol. III, p. 227a: “If it is missing a yud, there is a chirik in its place.”

With blessings for a good Shabbos.