Editing Days of Vacation (section)

== No Vacation from Torah Study ==
"As the school year ends, I bless the graduating students advancing to higher classes and divisions on the ladder of their holy education.

The summer days begin, days of vacation and rest and renewal of strength and preparation for the coming school year, may it come upon us and you for good.

Know, dear children, blessed seed of Hashem, that summer vacation days do not mean vacation and interruption chas v'shalom from Torah study. No Jewish boy or girl is permitted to live without Torah study and proper chinuch in Torah and mitzvos even for one day, whether in summer or winter. On the contrary! In the long summer days, when students are free from school, Talmud Torah or yeshiva, you are given the opportunity and privilege to dedicate your free hours to Torah with greater intensity and strength - both for yourselves, reviewing previous learning and preparing for the coming school year, and for others - positively influencing your brothers and sisters who have not merited, like you, to stand in the corner of light. In this way you will rise higher and higher, from elevation to elevation, on the path leading to the house of G-d.

Only in this way will you refresh strength, not just physical strength but also the strength of the pure neshamah, which together, and primarily the neshamah, make a person complete and perfected."

* From a letter of 16 Sivan 5711