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Cheshvan Wardrobe

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Cheshvan Wardrobe

Key Takeaways

  • Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s teachings emphasize unity, teamwork, and communal interdependence as the foundation of spiritual life and the path to redemption.
  • The month of Cheshvan (Bul) is associated with the Mabul (flood), symbolizing dissolution and the breakdown of unity.
  • True connection to Klal Yisrael must be rooted in a personal connection to Hashem, not merely national pride or habit.
  • Learning Torah must precede davening — one must first hear what Hashem wants before speaking to Him.
  • All Torah learning and davening should be performed lishmah — for the sake of Hashem and world rectification, not personal gain.
  • A single truly cohesive community (Knishta Khada) is sufficient to bring the redemption.
  • The Ramchal’s exclusive Beis Midrash in Italy required members to commit that all their Avodah be entirely for Hashem’s plan, with no personal spiritual gain sought.

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.