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Letter & Spirit - Personal and Public Correspondence of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Letters dated Tammuz, 5743 (1983-1984)

Thursday, June 16, 1983 - Tammuz 5, 5743
If death brings the soul back to its source in heaven, what then is purpose of mourning?
I must say that it is one of the most "amazing" letters I have ever received, based on a most amazing conclusion of a person who, after following the Jewish way of life for 17 years, has now decided that it was wrong because he did it for the sake of his wife and family.