This letter was addressed to R. Rafael Baruch Toledano, the Rabbi of Meknes, a city in Morocco where R. Michael Lipsker had begun Lubavitch activities.

B”H, 8 Adar II, 5711,
Brooklyn

Manifold greetings and blessings,

From time to time, I receive word of the goings on in your community via the chassidic communal leader, R. Michael Lipsker.1

Certainly, you personally will also bring me good news that gladdens the heart regarding the growth of the Torah institutions named Oholei Yosef Yitzchak-Lubavitch in your holy community, i.e., Torah that teaches “the precepts of G‑d that are just, bringing joy to the heart.”2 With abundant thanks in advance.

I am writing about a matter of immediate concern: to send you a kuntres for the coming Purim holiday that we recently published containing the teachings3 of my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe,זצוקללה"ה, נבג"ם, זי"ע , the tzaddik and the foundation of the world, who arouses [Divine] mercy, drawing down blessing and success for the Jewish people as a whole, and, in particular, for those who bring about pleasure for his soul in the celestial heights and in this world (see Yevamos 97a)4 through supporting the institutions which educate Jewish boys and girls in the spirit of Yisrael, the elder.5 Then, “When there are kids, there will be goats. When there are young children, there will be elders; there will be wise men, there will be sages, there will be Torah study, there will be synagogues and houses of study” (as stated in the Midrash,6 cited in the above-mentioned maamar). The ultimate purpose is that G‑d will rest His presence in this lowly material world. For the sitra achra will be subjugated and darkness will be transformed to light, [causing] G‑d’s infinite light to shine forth.

With blessings for a joyous Purim and greetings to the members of our fellowship, who are joined together by the “one Torah,” [given by] “the one G‑d.”