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Jewish Valentine’s Day

Jewish Valentine’s Day

Born out of assimilation and ignorance

Six occurrences converge on Tu B’Av

They’re the vav connecting the two hehs

Of the 17th of Tamuz and Tisha Bav

If you’ve understood properly

You realize the all important yud

Is still unaccounted for

Your Yiddishkeit depends on it

Where’s your crown?

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Are Your Tzitzis Out?

Are Your Tzitzis Out?

And your yarmulke is…a baseball cap?

Bein Hazmanim is a time for Bnei Torah

To showcase the real world

How real Yiddishkeit functions

Moshe Rabenu never made it to Israel

Yosef HaTzaddik made it back and was buried there

Moshe Rabenu went incognito

Aquiesced to being called איש מצרי

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The Ultimate Delight

Key Takeaways

The group completed their study of The Light Beyond, a text compiled by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, covering topics including Mashiach, resurrection, punishment of the grave, reward and punishment, and the ultimate good.

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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.