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Bilaam Lives On
Even in the Beis Medrash
We’ll never stop learning
Bilaam had that clear
How about lishma?
Bilaam’s in the air
Even in the Beis Medrash
Pinchos Lives On Too
Named Eliyahu
El Yud Heh Vav
Bring your own heh
ותזכה לדברים הרבה
Beauty And The Beast
Seventy nations petition Hashem for prophecy
Why only the Jews?
Bilaam was the most suitable choice
Most spiritual
His unearned spiritual upgrade drove him to bestiality
And beyond
מה טובו אהליך יעקב
Yaakov is in a good place
An ohel
A temporary space
Still struggles with the beast
משכנותיך ישראל
Yisroel is in the Mishkan
יפה נוף משוש כל הארץ
Eternal
Untouchable
Sovereignty
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.
