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To my devoted children,
I wish you happiness and health. With us,
thank God, we are alive. As for our health, it is commensurate
with our aging. The further we go the weaker we get, and to live
is hard - very, very hard.
Furthermore, the matter has been settled [he
has sold his business]. I immediately bought a quantity of rye
flour for bread, a similar quantity of potatoes and a wagon full
of firewood. For the time being I'm provided for. As for the
future, God will help. What can we do in our circumstances? We
must be satisfied with what we have.
Eliezer, you must realize that the cost of
living has risen enormously and there is no way around it. It is
not the same as it was in the First World War. So we must pray
that God will provide you with a good living, and you will be in a
position to support us. It is hard for me to be any more explicit.
I have no other options left. "The waters have reached up to my
soul." I'm deeply in debt, thanks to Litman [Litman Studnik] who
supports me. By now, I owe him a good deal, but he has left me
alone for quite a while now.
How are you and how are your affairs shaping
up? How is Zelda? Moishele and Nechemia must be grown up by now.
Can they already learn something [meaning Jewish learning]? How
are my sister and brother in law? Wish them well for us.
"They have mouths but they can't talk."
[This is a quote taken from biblical text
referring to idols of other religions. This is a clear statement
of the political condition in the new social order expressed
succinctly even if innocuously through the above quote. In other
words, we can't afford the luxury of telling what life is now
really like, due to censorship.]
This
is our reality. Remain well and content. Your mother and Nison
join me in sending you our best wishes.
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