Letter from Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn – the Lubavitcher Rebbe, with his signature. Brooklyn NY, 9th Tammuz 1962.
Typewritten on the official stationery of the rebbe, with his signature, and several corrections in his handwriting.

Addressed to R. Baruch Gopin (one of the first settlers of Kfar Chabad. He was a member of the town committee and was dubbed by the rebbe "Kfar Chabad Minister of Housing"), with the approach of Chag HaGeulah 12th-13th Tammuz, holiday commemorating the liberation of the rebbe's father-in-law, Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch from Soviet imprisonment in 1927.
In his letter, the rebbe relates to R. Baruch Gopin's communal work and to how he must influence his surrounding for the better. The rebbe guides him to act: "in pleasant ways, ways of peace… in particular since these days are propitious days for all this, since we are in proximity of the days of redemption 12th-13th Tammuz, the redemption of the rebbe [Rebbe Rayatz], who dedicated his life to implanting positive character traits in all those connected to him and who go in his ways". The rebbe concludes with hope: "Words emanating from the heart enter the heart of the listener and make an impact".
At the foot of the letter, the rebbe adds an instruction to R. Gopin: "surely… he will be more limited in drinking alcohol etc.".

The present letter was not published in Igrot Kodesh of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Aerogram. 30.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and creases. Tears and small holes to margins and folds (not affecting text).