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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK (Monday, October 06, 2008):

"The Arizal explains that the seven days of the week between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur include all the days of the week. During this week, it is possible to compensate for the service of all the days of the week in the previous year. Similarly, these days provide blessing for all the seven days of the week in the year to come, granting them the potential to be in the best manner possible."

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Erev Yom Kippur, 5745



Monday, October 06, 2008

The Rebbe Emphasizes the Importance of Wearing a Sheitel (wig)

... It pained me to read in your letter that the opportunity has not yet presented itself to travel to purchase a sheitel. I am astonished that you are delaying the matter for so long. Particularly so, as you are aware of that which is explained in Chassidus in many places, and it is understood with one’s rational intellect as well, that with each and every moment one is able to acquire an "entire world," or G-d forbid the opposite, [i.e., to lose an "entire world."]

This being so, with every passing moment that you do not accomplish the above, [i.e., purchasing a sheitel,] you are missing an opportunity to "build a world," that is to say, to draw down [through the purchase and the wearing of a sheitel] an additional measure of holiness throughout all the worlds -- as is to be understood from chapter 12 of the Alter Rebbe’s Iggeres HaTeshuvah. And to think that all this has not been done simply out of negligence!

However, "One does not remonstrate about the past"; merely [to alert you] that now you are to hasten and accomplish this task as soon as possible. This is also why I am sending this letter "Special Delivery."

You surely know that Machne Yisrael maintains a special loan fund for matters such as these, with ample time provided for easy repayment of the loan. If this [i.e., lack of funds,] was the reason that the matter was held up until now, then it is regrettable that you did not reveal this, for then the matter would already have long been taken care of.

In any event, you should hasten to take care of this matter now. ...

(Igros Kodesh, Vol. VI, p. 327)

from: Properly Covering the Hair With a Sheitel