Letter of "Blessings for a Good Inscription and Sealing" from the Lubavitcher Rebbe - With an Incisive Saying from ...

Letter of "Blessings for a Good Inscription and Sealing" from the Lubavitcher Rebbe - With an Incisive Saying from the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch - One of the Rebbe's Most Famous Letters - 1956
Letter of good year wishes, signed by Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn of Lubavitch. Addressed to R. Alexander Sender Yudasin in Tel Aviv. Brooklyn, Elul 1956.
Typewritten on the Rebbe's official stationery, with his handwritten signature.
The letter contains the Rebbe's blessings: "With the approach of the new year… I hereby extend my blessing for him and all of his, a blessing for a good inscription and sealing, for a good and sweet year in material and spiritual matters".
Following the Rebbe's signature, there is an additional (typewritten) passage, with several lines of personal guidance from the Rebbe, regarding the dissemination of Chassidic teachings: "Regarding what he wrote that the activities and publicity etc.… cause him a sense of ego… the saying of the Mitteler Rebbe [R. Dov Ber of Lubavitch, son of the Baal HaTanya] is well known: 'Even if you become an onion, you must continue repeating Chassidic discourses to the public', especially since unfortunately, some people feel conceited without any actions…".
The Rebbe responds in this letter to R. Yudasin, who wrote that the successful and publicized sermons he delivers, in which he disseminates Chassidic teachings and ideas to the public, engender in him feelings of vanity and self-worth. He is therefore wondering whether it is correct for him to continue with these activities. To which the Rebbe replies that the Mitteler Rebbe was once asked this same question by a Chassid who would repeat Chassidic discourses to the public. The Mitteler Rebbe answered him that he must continue giving over the Chassidic discourses, since his feelings don't affect the listeners in any way, and it wouldn't be correct for the public to lose out on account of his pride.
This is one of the Rebbe's most renowned letters, due to the famous saying from the Mitteler Rebbe which it contains, a saying which served as the guideline in the Rebbe's policy of disseminating Judaism and Chassidism.
These lines were published in Igrot Kodesh of the Rebbe, XIII, p. 492, with the omission of the name of the recipient. Regarding the recipient, R. Yudasin, see item 306.
[1] leaf. 21.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. The letter was cut in the middle and was reattached with dark tape on the verso. Folding marks.