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Don’t Kill Your Aravos

Don’t Kill Your Aravos

First tie all five together

Take them in your right hand to a patch of actual earth

Not tiled like in shul or a patio

Untie the aravos

Ask Hashem to consider your actions

As if you have all the kavanos of the neviim behind this minhag

Strike the earth exactly five times

Slowly

Each strike corresponds to one letter of מ–נ–צ–פ–ך

Focus on the mem during strike one, next the nun etc.

These are subduing each one of the five primary prosecuting midos

Each upswing is important too

Try to focus on the five words

לב–טהור–ברא–לי–אלהים

One per upswing

If you break the top off your arava during this process

Like the macho guys in shul do

Your arava is posul

You’re avoda is lost

You’ll need to get a new set

And start again

Humbly

A guteh kvittel

Past End Of Sukkos Shiurim

Ben Ish Chai 5774 Yosef

Sichos HaRan 97:8 Dovid Melech Yisrael Chai V’Kayam

Gur Aryeh 5774 Nikmas Yosef

Hoshana Raba / Simchas Torah 5774

Arava 5780

What Does Simcha Look Like?

What Does Simcha Look Like?

A common question inspired

By an inadequate translation of a famous mishna

One needs to see קרי or נדה or זיבה

To become טמא?

Obviously

Ridiculous

The only simcha

You can be רואה

Is שמחת בית השואבה

Now is the time to understand

What רואה means

And why we have no record

Of post Beis Hamikdash gedolei Yisroel

Celebrating שמחת בית השואבה

The way they celebrated שמחת תורה

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.