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Taste Your Shabbos Before It Begins

Taste Your Shabbos Before It Begins

טועמיה חיים זכו

We say this during musaf

Before attaining נשמה יתירה

And it refers to erev Shabbos activity

Tosefes Shabbos is before and after

Not during Shabbos

Yosef HaTzadik ordained musaf

Before the Jews received Shabbos

Floating into the kitchen looking for a snack

Does not yield טועמיה

Looking for a taste of the world

You’ve made for yourself – is

You make your own food for Shabbos?

Or rely on others

Anticipating their olam haba?

Or your own

רב ספרא מחריך רישא

רבא מלח שיבוטא

טועמיה is of what you’ve made

Made out of yourself

לעשות את השבת

הקב״ה מראה לצדיקים עד שהן בעוה״ז

מתן שכרן מה שהוא עתיד ליתן להם לעתיד

Shabbos Shalom

The Luchos Aren’t Rounded

The Luchos Aren’t Rounded

Neither is a human heart

Why does the world pretend otherwise?

Facts are finite

And constricting

In the beginning

Thank God for emuna

Hashem’s Nefesh

On Shabbos kodesh

Stone becomes flesh

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.