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Ahavat Chinam
Encouraged by popular culture
Sounds like Woodstock
And is not an authentic Jewish value
Sinas chinam is solved by
ואהבת לרעך כמוך
Which does not apply to all Jews
לאחיך בתורה ובמצות
Chazal list numerous types of Jews
We’re commanded to hate
And Hashem hates some too
Confirmed in the annals of halacha
From the Rambam to the Chofetz Chaim
Till today
Moshiach’s arrival depends on teshuva
Not on imagination
Years ago, my Rebbe said
“I wonder which is worse
Sinas Chinam
Or Ahavas Chinam?”
עשה לך רב
וקנה לך חבר
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Coming up later
A Lesson For The Road
From the Baal Shem Tov
And Rabenu
Every Jew endures מ״ב travels during his lifetime
First Class like Yaakov
Or Business like Esav
אלה מסעי בני ישראל
Resulting from
אלה אלהיך ישראל
Esav travels to his golden end
בר מינן
Yaakov to his land
מחזיק ברכה
Shabbos Chazak Shalom
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.