The name of the person to whom this letter was sent was not released.

B”H, 11 Nissan, 5711,
Brooklyn

Greetings and blessings,

For the coming Pesach holiday, I would like to express my blessing for a kosher and happy Pesach holiday.

Our Sages state1 that one of the factors that hastened the redemption from slavery to freedom was the difficulty of the subjugation [the Jews endured]. In particular, [this refers to the fact that] whenever the Jews failed to supply the sum of bricks demanded, they would put Jewish children in the buildings in place of them.2 The children who were buried alive would cry and call out, but there would be no one to save them and “Their outcry ascended to G‑d.”3

In addition to the simple meaning of the concept, there is also a parallel that is relevant to our spiritual lives: There are children who are being separated from Jewish homes and a Jewish lifestyle filled with the light of Torah and they are being placed in foreign homes, Egyptian homes, in which the darkness has become substantial.4

If the subjugation of the body is bitter, how much more so does this apply to the subjugation of the soul.

As we come to celebrate the Season of our Freedom, it is incumbent on every one of us, man or woman, to free himself from being sunk in “Egyptian” matters and especially to try, each one according to his potential, to free Jewish boys and girls from the terrible subjugation of the soul [they are experiencing] and to lead them out from darkness to great light through kosher Jewish education based on a foundation of purity and holiness.

With blessings for a kosher and happy Pesach holiday,

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The above letter with this accompanying note was sent to Rabbi Dr. Shimshon Rafael Weiss.

I derived satisfaction from reading your article in the monthly publication HaKerem [The Adar Alef issue, 5711.]See the Sefer Gulos Iliyos with regard to the pertinent mishnayos.