In a newly released letter, the Rebbe responds to a Jew freed from Soviet Russia who sent the Rebbe several poems. The Rebbe explains that the Kremlin attempts to defend its discrimination of Jews by claiming that Jews aren’t interested in Jewish matters, pointing to how Jews behave in free countries.
A Russian Jew finally freed from Soviet Russia, sent to the Rebbe several poems.
The Rebbe, in his reply [that is being released now for the first time], gave him a strong directive of how such a Jew is to act in the free world:
“The representatives of the Kremlin attempt to defend their discriminatory policy and persecution of the Jews,” the Rebbe writes, “by claiming that the Jews in that country are not interested in Jewish matters, Jewish religion, Jewish education, etc., etc.”
The Rebbe continues that the support for such a claim comes from “the fact that Jews who leave the Soviet Union and find themselves in the free countries, where they have every facility and possibility to live the Jewish way in the fullest possible measure, do not do so.”
This week’s booklet has a number of letters regarding Sukkos. One of the letters is one of the earliest “general” letters of the Rebbe. Written in 1943, the Rebbe outlines the sequence and order to the month of Tishrei. This letter gives a new appreciation to this important month. Other letters outline a lesson from the Sukkah and about joining in a festive Sukkos Farbrengen.
Rebbe Responsa kindly requests anyone who may be in possession of letters of the Rebbe in English, to send them by email so that these unique treasures can benefit the public.
These selected letters are sourced from the extensive collection of over 5,000 English letters written by the Rebbe, accessible through the Rebbe Responsa app.
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See also previous booklet on Sukkos and Simchas Torah
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