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Friday’s For Asher
Sixth day, sixth midah, sixth of the seven species.
Olive oil, not olives.
Tahara leads to kedusha.
Yesod to Malchus.
Drizzle Yesod on your breakfast.
Fry your Shabbos food in it.
Light your Shabbos up with it.
Levitate above the density of the world.
יוסף לי בן אחר
Dan Is The Tenth
Like the Aseres HaDibros on the two luchos that broke into pieces.
And the two Batei HaMikdash that met a similar fate.
Today’s focus is on reconstructing all of our broken treasures.
The tenth request in shemoneh esreh is about Yerushalayim.
Rashi says it’s referring to the Beis HaMikdash.
Today we break klipos of opacity.
Like Dan, we need “breaking and entering” back into the ענני כבוד.
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.