To R’ Aryeh Siegel,
Your great effort in the course of many years to cleave to the teachings of Baal Hasulam, and to put it into practice in your daily life, bears fruit at this time – a sweet and succulent fruit. You have translated, for the sake of the nation of Israel, a portion of the essays of Baal Hasulam’s book Matan Torah. And whoever brings merit to others receives great reward in this world and the next.
I hope that the people of Israel will be uplifted by the important principles in this book. It is for this that God awaits – that we will rise above the ashen life of self-love and will begin to put into practice the principles of loving the other. The book Matan Torah is a contemporary reflection of the holy Zohar, of which it is said that through it will Israel be mercifully redeemed from exile. This means that our souls will be redeemed from our exile in the depths of self-love, from our fits of anger and our fears – all of which derive from a lack of faith in God.
Best wishes to you, and may your work continue to bear fruit and bring merit to the general public. I pray that God will grant you and your family long-lasting health and the joy pursuant to the holiness found in fulfilling the Torah and the mitzvot.
From your friend,
Avraham Mordechai Gottlieb