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כִּֽי־לִ֤י בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ עֲבָדִ֔ים עֲבָדַ֣י הֵ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־הוֹצֵ֥אתִי אוֹתָ֖ם מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם אֲנִ֖י יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃
You Stole My Son
More than one
At least you tried to
Dreamed he’d fight you
Instead he ran
Circling around
In pristine perfection
You’re the perfect clown
Bnei aliyah
Your nemeses
Your Jabber claws
Our enemies
This Is War
My landlord tells me.
Fighting for the Tzaddik.
Fighting for reality.
Korach challenged the world’s foundation.
Challenged reality.
ולא יהיה כקרח וכעדתו
That’s a guarantee, not a prohibition.
Take No For An Answer
Take a hike if they blockade your mountain.
Take a chill if they resent your enthusiasm.
Take a break if your luchos get unbearably weighted.
Take a backseat in your life.
Take a flying leap Yetzer Hara.
A Pesach Sheni leap.
Don’t take anything.
Give it instead.
זכרתי לך חסד נעוריך
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.