you have entered the second month - approximately - of your pregnancy:

In reply to your letter in which you convey to me the good news that you have entered the second month - approximately - of your pregnancy:

Surely, as I have mentioned to ... if at all possible you are not to publicize the news "until the fifth month" - to use the expression of my father-in-law, the Rebbe.

I would suggest to you the following:


Surely you are following your doctors' orders - those of whom you already visited - regarding your diet, not overstraining yourself, etc.

Check all the mezuzos in your home and exchange the non-kosher ones for kosher ones.

Keep the fine custom of Jewish women, that of giving charity to the fund of Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes prior to lighting candles every Shabbos eve and Yom Tov eve.

Your husband, the Rav, should continue reciting the daily portion of Psalms (as it is divided by the days of the month) at least until after you give birth in a good and auspicious hour.
So, too, in the Prayer Before Retiring at Night, your husband should recite - prior to Hamapil - the 20th Psalm, Lamenatzeiach ... Ya'ancha. After he concludes the chapter, he should once again recite the second verse, Ya'ancha, and have in mind that G-d should consider it as if he had all the intentions that are to be thought of at that time.


May G-d grant you an easy pregnancy; may you carry to term and give birth in a regular and easy way to a healthy child.

(Igros Kodesh, Vol. VI, p. 104)