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by Rabbi Menachem Nissel | January 18, 2017
I was an excited yeshiva bochur as I approached Rav Moshe Shapira for the first time. The year was 1981 and he had just joined the faculty of Yeshivas Mishkan Hatorah on Rechov Sorotzkin, Yerushalayim.
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וזהו שאמר יוסף "ה"א לכם זרע", כי ידוע דיוסף היה מל ומגייר את המצרים, ואמר להם הזריעה שלכם, דהיינו העובדות שלכם, תעשו לשם ה"א אחרונה היא השכינה, "ונתתם חמישית לפרעה", פירוש כשתטו עצמכם לדברי גשמי, אל תטו רק חלק חמישית, כי 'פרעה' אותיות 'הערף', רמז לעוה"ז לעניני גשמיות, "וארבע הידות יהיה לכם", שתשארו בהקדושה ותאחזו
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.
