Are Tu B’Av And Shabbos Nachamu Related?
Ask Yitzchok Avinu
He ordained Zman Mincha
יצחק = נחמו נחמו
וינחם יצחק אחרי אמו = בירושלם
That’s his marriage
Fifteen letters
Five things happened on Tu B’Av
Rectifying the fives of בין המצרים
נחמו נחמו עמי יאמר אלהיכם
Five words
Twenty one letters
Yitzchok met Rivka in a field
Which becomes the Beis Hamikdash
ותשקט הארץ ארבעים שנה
תרגום: ושדוכת ארעא
Nachamu Nachamu Ami
Calling all prophets:
“Transport the Jews to mincha!”
Yeshaya relayed this message once
And it’s continuously related
By a creature unknown
Whose name is uncertain too
Either רציפי or אונכי
42nd speaker in Perek Shira
רציפי indicates constancy
Like a יתד במקום נאמן
אונכי generates the nechama
Resulting from אנכי ה׳ אלהיך
Our world is an emuna vacuum
Allergic to Avraham
Allergic to מה
On a need to know basis
אברהם = ברא מה
אמונה = אנו מה
Mincha ends what shachris begins
צלותא דאברהם
Three Weeks Of Mourning
Followed by seven weeks of consolation
A ratio encrypted deep in the world’s genome
Parallels the עשרת הדברות
Seven negative commandments
And the three positive
In the ten sefiros
The three מוחין hover above
The seven mundane מדות
The three מוחין are loftier than מדות
But negative commandments
Tower above the positive
And נחמה above אבילות
Pondering this discrepancy
Is the mitzva of שבת נחמו
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.