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The significance of the month of Iyar

No. 478

This letter was addressed to R. Shlomo Chayim Kesselman, one of the spiritual mentors of the Lubavitch community in Paris.

B"H, 3 Iyar, 5709

Greetings and blessings,

Surprisingly, we have not received from you, as of yet, any acknowledgment of your receipt of the letters and the kuntreisim....

Enclosed is a copy of the list [sent by] the Committee for the Sefer Torah[328] with the list of the corresponding letters [purchased in the Sefer Torah]. You will no doubt inform us in detail concerning the new parameters for nifneh[329] after some of those involved with it will have emigrated to Eretz Yisrael.[330]

To conclude with matters relevant to the present day: [During the farbrengen delivered after] Kiddush [this Shabbos], which was Rosh Chodesh [Iyar, it was] explained that the month of Iyar possesses an advantage over all the months of the year in that each and every one of its days causes a mitzvah (i.e., the mitzvah of Counting the Omer) [to be performed on it].

Concluding with wishes for everlasting good in all matters and with greetings to all those who seek our welfare,

Rabbi Menachem Schneerson

   

Notes:

328. (Back to text) [I.e., the Torah scroll to greet Mashiach; see Letter No. 445 and notes there.]

329. (Back to text) [The chassidic code for maamad, money given to the Rebbe by chassidim to support his household needs and distribute to others at his discretion.]

330. (Back to text) [Many of the members of the chassidic brotherhood from Russia who had been temporarily living in France emigrated to Eretz Yisrael at this time. See the Previous Rebbe�s Igros Kodesh, Vol. X, Letter No. 3479 and notes there.]

Blessings for the Pesach holiday; the concept that the heavenly spheres are masters of knowledge

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