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Avinu Malkenu

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Avinu Malkenu

Key Takeaways

  • The shofar is blown during Elul (30 days) as a custom (minhag), while on Rosh Hashanah the mitzvah shifts to hearing the shofar rather than blowing it.
  • The original takana called for 40 days of shofar blowing (dating back to Har Sinai), yet the final 10 days of Tishrei (Aseret Yemei Teshuva) are notably absent of shofar blowing.
  • Avinu Malkeinu, recited from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur, is proposed as a spiritual substitute — and even an elevation — of the shofar’s function during those 10 days.
  • The shofar’s purpose is to coronate Hashem (Malchus) and distance us from Avodah Zarah by directing focus exclusively toward Hashem.
  • Avinu Malkeinu encapsulates both Atzilus (Avinu) and Bria (Malkeinu), reflecting the Kabbalistic framework of creation and the relationship between Jews and Hashem.
  • The gematria of Avinu Malkeinu equals Yira, indicating that the prayer achieves the same goal as the shofar: instilling awe and awareness of Hashem.

Yeshivas Rashbi

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.

Stealth Kollel

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.