Purim 5741/1981: Message of the Rebbe

00:01 Behemshech to the earlier installment benegea to Purim Tov Shen Lametzai in 1977, the next occasion when Purim fell out on Friday was Tov Shen Memaleph 1981, four years later. The Rebbe then wrote a letter, a message for Klal Yisrael, dated on the 11th of Adar Sheni, Tov Shen Memaleph, to the sons and daughters of Israel. Greeting and blessing. With only several days left to Purim, it is high time to remind ourselves and others about all that has to be done in connection with Purim, particularly in keeping with its special features this year. This coming Purim occurs on the sixth day of the week, the day on which the first man Adam was created, and he immediately called upon all the creation to acknowledge the Creator as King of the universe, which is why we will say this Purim, the psalm, Hashem is King, he has garbed himself with grandeur. In practical terms, specifically to strengthen and expand the preparations for Purim with a view to enabling every Jew, young and old, children and women, to observe Purim in the fullest measure, especially involving also children, many children, all the children, boys and girls, in both the preparations for Purim and in the actual fulfillment of the mitzvahs of Purim. And of course, to care and provide also for the Jews who find themselves in special circumstances, in military service, senior citizens' homes, orphanages, hospitals, correctional institutions, to enable them to celebrate Purim fully. A further point of special relevance to this coming Purim is in

02:13 connection with the fact that when Purim occurs on Friday, it becomes an extended Purim for the holy city of Yerushalayim, extending into Sunday in some aspects, like the Purim sunda, rejoicing with Purim, Mishlei Achmanes, etc. When Jews went into exile after the destruction of the first Beis Hamidos, they vowed never to forget Yerushalayim and remember it and raise it above every simcha, as David, the sweetener of the songs of Israel, declares in Tehillim. It would therefore be appropriate, indeed very much so, for Jews everywhere to make this coming Sunday a particularly joyous one by additional activities that produce joy. Teyre study, which brings rejoicing of the heart, spreading joy among Jews in the spirit of Avas Yisroel, and if suitable or necessary, through Mishlei Achmanes to friends and gifts to the poor, and particularly through gatherings to spread Yiddishkeit in the spirit of Yerushalayim Yiros Leima, that is the acronym of the word Yerushalayim, complete awe of Hashem. To do all the above with true joy in accordance with the conclusion of Shulchan Oruch Eirechayim laws of Purim, the good-hearted feasts always. In this way we identify ourselves still more with Yerushalayim, to which we turn every day at prayer, as it is written, they will pray to Hashem through the city which you have chosen. Chosen and given to every Jew and to all Jews forever as an internal inheritance. May Hashem grant that just as in the days of Mordechai and Esther it turned out that for the Jews there was light, joy,

04:15 gladness and honor. In the plain sense of these terms as well as in their inner meaning, as our sages explain, so shall it be for us and with geulah following geulah, that after the geulah of Purim should immediately follow the true and complete geulah through our righteous Mashiach, a geulah similar to the liberation from the land of Egypt. And before that, while still in galus, we your people and sheep of your pasture will thank you forever, we will tell your praise to generation and generation. This expression, we your people, is from Tehillim and this was a chapter of Tehillim that corresponded to the Rebbe's age at the time. The Rebbe concludes the letter with esteem and blessing for atzlochen all the above and for a joyous Purim. And the Rebbe fixed his signature. A freilech and Purim