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== A Good Beginning ==
In a report written by the Shelah committee to the Rebbe in 1963 about activities to expand classes, the Rebbe responded:

"May it be His will that this be a good beginning to fulfill our Sages' command to 'establish many students' as required."

Next to the section in the report about instructors who stay ten minutes or more after the study hour to talk with the children and influence them to observe additional mitzvos at home and register for Torah schools, the Rebbe wrote:

"Thank you for the good news."

And when they noted that they request the Rebbe's blessing for success in all the mentioned activities, he wrote:

"I will mention at the tziyun for the above, and this is the year of [150 years since] the passing of the Alter Rebbe..."

Later, in 1975, the Hebrew-speaking department was established, following the wave of emigrants from Israel. For Purim 1976, an issue of "Daf LaYad" that they prepared for the children was brought to the Rebbe. The Rebbe, who had just arrived from his home, immediately turned to read the issue, despite piles of mail that had been waiting earlier for his responses, and commented on the story there that Mordechai HaYehudi, Esther HaMalka's uncle, did not bow to Haman. The Rebbe circled the word "uncle" and wrote:

"Son, Megillah 7:2, to correct."

That is: in Megillas Esther there it states: "And he raised Hadassah, she is Esther, his uncle's daughter."