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Jews Started Observing Sukkos
Only after entering Israel
According to the רמב“ם and the מבי“ט
The Baal HaTanya writes in his Shulchan Aruch
Moshe Rabenu miraculously arranged a mass esrog shipment
To the desert Jews from Italy!
The Rambam doesn’t address the desert dalet minim
The Baal HaTanya doesn’t mention the desert lack of sukka
Where did the desert Jews shake their lulavim?
Lulav without a sukka is like tefillin without a talis
And how does our mitzva of lulav represent
The miracle we’re celebrating on Sukkos?
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One Who Experiences Shechina Revelation
Must remove his shoes
That’s us on Yom Kippur
Like Moshe Rabenu at the burning bush and Har Sinai
Like all who’d enter the Beis Hamikdash
Shabbos is holier than Yom Kippur
Therefore, instead of Shabbos shoes
We should have none
The Zohar says one day
We’ll wear shoes on Yom Kippur
The way we do on Purim
That’s what we we have
To look forward to
Kedushas Purim
Is less than kedushas Rosh Chodesh
Barely kadosh at all
The Nazis ordered Jews to remove their shoes
Before they died על קידוש השם
The climactic revelation of Yom Kippur
נעילה
Implies donning shoes
Which are prohibited
On שבת שבתון
גמר חתימה טובה
Chatzos Kollels have become popular in recent years. Only the Zohar emphasizes the importance of this practice. It’s repeated there dozens of times.
With the haskama of Rav Moshe Shapiro zt”l I encourage people to learn this way themselves whenever possible.
When we can’t, next best is to sponsor someone who can. The ideal subject of learning after chatzos is Kabbala.
$1500 will sponsor a talmid chochom learning kabbala in Yeshivas Rashbi for a month.
Twenty years ago a colleague in the Mir discovered a number of talmidei chachomim struggling financially who refused to receive tzedaka. He outsmarted them.
They were invited to join a Shabbos kollel paying them nicely for learning they were doing anyway wherever they want. Donors don’t know the recipients, and the recipients don’t even know they’re receiving tzedaka. This is the Stealth Kollel.
Stealthily supporting thirty world class talmidei chachomim learning in Yerushalayim. The most ideal form of tzedaka, as stipulated in Bava Basra 9a.
There are no expenses and no advertising. 100% tzedaka.
Sponsoring one avrech for a month is $1000. But donations of any size are warmly welcomed.