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Daven For Your Esrog
Your heart
The heart is absent in shemoneh esreh
And it’s called עבודה שבלב?
The heart is the source of life
And good health
And perfected avodas Hashem
Use the tefila of the Ben Ish Chai
He specifies five esrogian qualities
יפה
מהודר
נקי
שלם
כשר
Dovid HaMelech and Esther HaMalka
Both associated with esrog
Malchus
The fifth פרצוף
Tefila
ונתתי משכני בתוככם
Chazal say, זה בית המקדש
Here the Ramban rejects the medical field
לא ידרוש ברופאים
ומה חלק לרופאים בבית עושי רצון השם
אבל ברצות השם דרכי איש
אין לו עסק ברופאים
The Arizal forbids eating animal hearts
Compromises משכני
Eat esrog today
You’ll be alive next Tu B’Shvat
Good Yom Tov
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.