4844 —טענות "מדעיות" באות להצדיק את הרצון, וחוסר ידים לעבודת ארגון אנ"ש

B"H, 17 Marcheshvan, 5717

Brooklyn.

The Rav and Chassid, G‑d-fearing man, distinguished and honored, engaged in communal needs, our teacher Rabbi Shmuel Yosef, may he live

Shalom u'Vrachah!

In answer to your letter of Erev Shabbos Kodesh and the one before it.

It is understood that you are right in most of what you write regarding outreach among etc., and those who come with arguments that in their opinion are scientific arguments, etc.

But as I have seen in a good many of them, in their great majority it is — as I wrote in my previous letter — a reason that comes after the will, in order to justify it^[1]; and it is along the lines of what I wrote in my letter to the convention of the teachers of the Chinuch Atzmai^[2], which surely is known to you. Now, it is understood that despite the above it would have been worthwhile to act even for the sake of the tiniest minority; but the trouble is that there are not enough hands — writers, printers, directors of outreach, etc. — even for the work that everyone agrees is for the majority, such as the work of organizing Anash in the Holy Land, may it be rebuilt and established, and in the diaspora (whose neglect you surely see on the spot), organizing the active forces suited for communal work, and more and more...

With blessing.

Publisher's notes

Our teacher Rabbi Shmuel Yosef: Pindrik, Netanya. Further letters to him — above, 4754, and the references noted there.

Notes

[1] A reason that comes after the will (טעם הבא לאחרי הרצון): for most of them the "scientific" arguments are not the cause of their distance; rather, the will comes first, and the reasons are sought afterwards to justify it. Intellectual proofs alone therefore have little effect on them.

[2] The Chinuch Atzmai (החינוך העצמאי): the network of independent Torah schools in Eretz Yisrael. The Rebbe's letter to its teachers' convention is mentioned here as known to the recipient.