Letter about Matters Related to G-d's Service by the Lubavitcher Rebbe – With Several Lines in his Handwriting

Letter about Matters Related to G-d's Service by the Lubavitcher Rebbe – With Several Lines in his Handwriting
Letter about matters related to G-d's service, by Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schnnerson of Lubavitch-Chabad to R. Alexander Sender Yudasin of Tel Aviv. Brooklyn, NY, [Kislev] 1962.
The letter is typewritten on the Rebbe's official stationery and bears his own signature, with the addition of several lines in his handwriting.
The recipient is R. Alexander Sender Yudasin. In Chabad jargon, this letter is called a "general-private letter", i.e. it was sent to a number of recipients with the Rebbe's handwritten additions to some of the letters. Detailed sources to each concept and of each expression are written in the margins.
In this letter, written Erev Shabbat Parshat Toldot, the Rebbe writes a Chassidic thought relating to G-d's service: The struggle between Ya'akov and Esav in the parsha alludes to the struggle of the G-dly soul and the animal soul and he continues to find relevance to the life of every Jewish person. Further in the letter, the Rebbe writes more details about this thought.
A number of times in the letter, the Rebbe adds a phrase in his own handwriting.
At the end of the letter, the Rebbe writes: "The name HaTamim has already been taken by the publisher from Poland and perhaps, will be renewed".
The meaning of this phrase: Apparently, the recipient, R. Alexander Yudasin wrote to the Rebbe that he intends to publish his Talmudic novellae and to title his book HaTamim. Therefore, the Rebbe wrote him that this name has already been taken and he cannot use it since in 1935-1938, the name HaTamim was used for a Chabad periodical published in Warsaw by R. Shmuel Zalmanov, (the Rebbe was one of its editors) and possibly, the periodical may soon reappear.
In the end, R. Yudasin named his book of Talmudic novellae Tomchei Temimim (Tel Aviv, 1964), and the periodical HaTamim was not published again in the Rebbe's lifetime (in 1971, R. Shmuel Zalmanov printed a facsimile edition of HaTamim in two volumes). At the beginning of his book, R. Yudasin printed a brief version of this letter and at its end added: "I have used the blessing of the Rebbe and printed it in my book. I am certain that all who study this book will be blessed and succeed as a result of this blessing".
The full letter, without the handwritten additions is printed in Igrot Kodesh, Vol. 22, pp. 360-361, and in Likutei Sichot, Vol. 5 p. 415.
R. Alexander Sender Yudasin (1897-1983), a prominent Chabad rabbi, was born in Belarus. A disciple of Rebbe S.B. of Lubavitch, ordained for the rabbinate by R. David Zvi Chen. In 1834, he immigrated to Eretz Israel Yisrael and settled in Tel Aviv. He served as Rabbi of Chabad Chassidim in Tel Aviv for almost 50 years and as a member of the Chief Rabbinate of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Authored the Tomchei Temimim series on the Talmud and the two parts of HaLekach V'HaLibuv on the Tanya, (Kfar Chabad, 1968-1970), one of the most important works composed on the Tanya.
Aerogram. 30 cm. Good condition. Folding creases.