Kosher Food Must Be Tahor?
Nope
Then why in parshas Re’eh
Are only the kosher birds
Described as tahor
A four word posuk
כל צפור טהרה תאכלו
The animals and the fish
Aren’t called tahor here
The Arizal touches on this issue
Try to decipher the attached
Chicken-scratch
When Will I Be Like Our Heroes?
A question we Jews must constantly ask ourselves
Holy Days are designed to accomplish just that:
Pesach/Tisha Bav – Avraham Avinu
Shavuos/Purim – Yaakov Avinu
Rosh Hashana – Yiitzchok’s Avinu
Yom Kippur – Moshe Rabenu
Sukkos/Chanuka – Aharon HaKohen
Rosh Chodesh – Rochel’s Imenu
The two Tus aren’t associated with heroes
But Yosef remains unaccounted for
And what about Shabbos?
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.