Channel 20 live Selichot concert from Design City, Ma'ale Adumim

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Hi Everyone!

Channel 20 is broadcasting a live Selichot concert 
from Design City, Ma'ale Adumim
on TV channel 20, Facebook and Youtube.

The Youtube address of the concert is:

Gmar Chatima Tova!
Shabbat Shalom,
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UPDATE Re: Please help family for Chagim

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Shalom and Shana Tova.

Since my previous posting below, the father received very bad news last week about his health. He is now being sent to the "Nuclear Medicine Department" in Hadassah Hospital for treatment. He is suffering very much. Kindly help him and his son and pray for the health of Ephraim Fishel ben Tsirel. Details on how to donate are below.

I can supply documentation on his medical tests and also send letters from Rabbis Berel Wein and Zvi Schwartz about this poor family

Thank you.......Gmar Chatima Tova

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On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 7:20 PM Larisa Tsygankov <larisayerushalayim@...> wrote:

Shalom
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Shavua Tov to all.

I have been trying to get the word out about a father and son in Jerusalem we have been trying to help.

I can send letters from Rabbis Berel Wein and Zvi Schwartz about the family, and both are happy to speak on the phone about this terrible situation. Please contact me for details.

The group moderators ask me to keep it short, so I will try my best. If anyone wants more details or information, please email me and I will explain more if needed.

This is a father that is very ill with a son in a special school. The father worked for a company outside of Israel that went bankrupt, owing him a very large amount of money, which put him in serious debt.

They are alone, just the two of them, with no other family to assist them..

The father's health problems are getting worse. He is running around to different doctors and taking many tests in Hadassah, including his heart, lungs, liver, intestines and nervous system. He is in pain all the time,and does not sleep. He also has pains in his back, legs, and feet. He has vision problems, and has lost most of his teeth. It is heartbreaking to see this once strong man. He looks ten years or more older than his age.

The constant stress of the financial problems is making things even worse for his health.

They are in danger of having their electricity disconnected at any moment.? This is also the time of year they needed to renew their rental contract and their landlord would not renew their contract unless all bills and rent are paid. They paid part, but still owe more. They must stay in this apartment. They have nowhere else to go plus the boy's school is nearby.

This is a very nice man who always helped others, and now desperately needs help. We are trying to give him some peace before the Holidays so he can focus on his health and enjoy the Chagim.

Please kindly help them.

Please email to me with the donation details if you donate so we can get them the money faster, and also please help us pass this on to any friends and contacts that may be in a position to help.

There are American and Israeli charities accepting donations online for them. It is also possible to help through their local grocery store or by bank transfer to friends helping the family. Please contact me for details.

For USA tax deductible receipts, the Bayswater Neighbors Fund has a website to donate. I will write the link below. If anyone prefers to send a check, please email me and I will send the details.

Right above the SUBMIT button on the donation form is written "My contribution is for:" and then they have a drop-down menu to choose where the donation will go. Important to choose, "Family in Jerusalem", and push Submit button once.

This is very important or they will not know to whom to give the donation. Please also email me if you donate so we can follow up.
Here is the link.

For Israel donations/receipts, please see the link below. It is VERY IMPORTANT to write FUND 2110 in the comment box or the donation will not go to the family and to email me if you donate so we can follow up. Here is the link for the Mekimi organization donation page.

Then click on
"Secured donation by credit card" and please remember to write FUND 2110 in the comment box.
Thank you all in advance. Tizku L'Mitzvot

Shmirat Haloshon

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SEFER CHOFETZ CHAIM

Day 3 – Lack of commitment
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It is forbidden to say that an individual lacks commitment in fulfilling a particular commandment. Therefore, it is forbidden to say that a man sets aside little time for daily Torah study, or that he does not go out of his way to help others.
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This would apply even if the speaker and listener themselves study little or are not known for their benevolence, and will openly admit to this without shame. Since the Torah commands us to make Torah study and chesed performance priorities in our lives, it is forbidden to say that someone else lacks dedication in these areas.
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SEFER SHMIRAS HALOSHON
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Purpose of This Volume
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There are many factors which can cause a person to speak loshon hora. The three primary factors are:
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(1) A lack of awareness of what a Jew is and is not permitted to say. It is in response to this that we have compiled Sefer Chofetz Chaim, which is a code of laws of proper speech.
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(2) Satan’s powerful efforts in this area, as he seeks to indict us Above and to cause our prayers to be rejected (as stated in the holy Zohar, which will be cited in a forthcoming chapter).
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(3) Ignorance of the methods through which one can succeed in avoiding the urge to gossip. As Scripture states, “For with strategies shall you wage war for yourself” (Mishlei 24:6).
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It is in response to the second and third factors that we have authored this work (Sefer Shmiras Haloshon), a compilation of Aggadic teachings from the Talmud, Midrash and the holy Zohar, which speak of the great reward, in this world and the next, for guarding one’s tongue, and of the retribution that can result from the terrible sin of speaking loshon hora.
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We have also labored, with the help of Hashem, to compile from the thoughts of our Sages many methods and suggestions for how to escape the snare of the sin of loshon hora. It is our hope that this will inspire and aid the reader to overcome his inclination to speak the forbidden, so that he can develop the precious, sterling quality of shmiras haloshon.
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Because this present work contains many topics that are of vital interest, it is therefore exceedingly precious to me. Therefore, I have given it a title of its own,1 Shmiras Haloshon, based upon the verse,? “One who guards his mouth and tongue, guards his soul from tribulations” (Mishlei 21:23).
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I.e. Though this compilation of Aggadic teachings and insights is actually another section of Sefer Chofetz Chaim, the author gave it a title of its own.

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FREE: Panel of Focus

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Some of my best thoughts come to me while I am davening. It's a battle to shove them out of the way. These are not what I choose to be concentrating on; but, somehow they find a way to squeeze themselves in and pre-occupy my mind while I am trying to have lofty thoughts of the greatness of G'd and His many kindnesses.

I am guessing I am not the only one who at times finds it challenging to concentrate on Tefillot. To this end, I have asked Rae Shagalov and Tzirel Liba Mitzmann to join me on a panel where we will all learn techniques to help us to get into the correct frame of mind and to focus on our tefillot.

Join us on Monday, September 13, 7 Tishrei, for some concrete tips to help you get the most out of your tefillot.

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Worth watching online....Ritchie Boys: The secret U.S. unit bolstered by German-born Jews

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Worth watching online....
Ritchie Boys: The secret U.S. unit bolstered by German-born Jews 
that helped the Allies beat Hitler


Gmar Chatima Tova!
Shabbat Shalom,
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Today's Inspiration - Shabbat shalom - G'mar chatima tova!

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TThe Scarlet Thread

Said the Koretzer: "We read: 'Like the scarlet thread are your lips' (Song of Song 4:3). As the scarelt thread hung at the Temple on Yom Kippur showed by its miraculous change into white the forgiveness of sins, your sins now will be forgiven if you are able to change your everyday prayers ands tudy, mixed as they are? with foreign thoughts, into pure worship and concentrated study."

Source: Nofeth Tzufim

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Shmirat Haloshon

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The most important tool we use?during the Yamim Nora'im is?the mouth. From Maariv at the beginning of Rosh Hashanah?through Ne'ilah on Yom Kippur, we use our mouths to beg for forgiveness, health, parnassah, children, life itself! How can we?dare not?do our best to make sure our mouths are clean, pure and in optimum working order?? Shmiras Haloshon is not just the key to our relationship with others; it safeguards our most precious tool for connecting with Hashem and?bringing His bounty into our lives.?
Kesivah vachasimah tovah
Dedicated l’zecher nishmas Berel ben Hirsh z”l, by his children Dr. and Mrs. Reuven Shanik
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Day 1 – Loshon Hora: A Definition
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Loshon Hora (lit. evil talk) is defined as information which is either derogatory or potentially harmful to another individual.? A derogatory statement about someone is loshon hora, even if it will definitely not cause that person any harm.? To focus on the shortcomings of another person is itself wrong.
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A statement that could potentially bring harm to someone – be it financial, physical, psychological or otherwise – is loshon hora, even if the information is not negative.
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(It should be noted that the term loshon hora refers even to true statements which are derogatory or harmful.? Negative statements that are untrue or inaccurate are termed hotzaas shem ra, slander.)
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Food for the Soul
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“One who guards his mouth and tongue, guards his soul from tribulations” (Mishlei 21:23).
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“Which man desires life, who loves days of seeing good? Guard your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit...” (Tehillim 34:13-14).
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Why do the above verses single out shmiras haloshon, guarding one’s tongue, as the key to a good life in both worlds?
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The human body is composed of 248 organs and 365 sinews. Corresponding to this are the 248 spiritual organs and 365 spiritual sinews of the soul. As Scripture states: “You clothe me with skin and flesh, cover me with bones and sinews” (Iyov 10:11). The various parts of the body are referred to as “clothing” and “covering” for they clothe and cover the soul within man. Each physical organ corresponds to a specific aspect of the soul.
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Hashem has given us 248 positive commandments and 365 negative commandments which relate to the particular parts of the body with which they are performed.1 By performing a given mitzvah through a given organ, a spiritual light comes to rest upon the corresponding component of the soul; it is from this light that this component draws eternal vitality.
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Thus, when a person fulfills all the Torah’s commandments, he transforms himself into an adam hashaleim, man of spiritual perfection, whose every fiber is sanctified unto Hashem.
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The converse is true as well. If a person commits a transgression and does not repent for it, then the component of the soul which corresponds to that prohibition will suffer accordingly.
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1. See opening introduction to Sefer Chareidim.
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Keep reading Day 2, the lesson for Rosh HaShanah day 2

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Day 2 – Breach of Halachah
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It is forbidden to relate that someone has been remiss in matters of Jewish observance – be it a transgression prohibited by the Torah, a rabbinical prohibition, or even a breach of custom. Such statements are derogatory by the Torah’s standards and thus are forbidden.
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Therefore, it is forbidden to mention an incident in which one of the people involved transgressed a halachah, even in a society where that particular halachah is commonly ignored.
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The Essential Quality
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It is every person’s hope and prayer that he or she be healthy, that every organ of the body function as it should. Similarly, it should be every person’s hope and yearning that his or her soul, which lives on eternally, be spiritually healthy. It is therefore imperative that one strive throughout his lifetime to faithfully observe all 613 mitzvos, which provide the components of the soul with eternal life and vitality.
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Shmiras haloshon is especially crucial to one’s spiritual wellbeing. People who habitually speak loshon hora, and accept as fact the evil talk of others, corrupt their power of speech and hearing in this world — and their souls will surely be affected in a parallel way in the next world. How great will be their shame in the next world! For it will be obvious to all that their deficiencies resulted from the sin of loshon hora and their having been the cause of strife on this world.
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The Torah states: “And Hashem (God) formed man from the dust of the ground, and He blew into his nostrils the soul of life, and man became a living being” (Bereishis 2:7). Targum Onkelos translates the verse’s last phrase as, “and man became a speaking spirit.” It is the power of speech which defines man’s essence and distinguishes him from other creatures.
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Thus does Scripture state: “One who guards his mouth and tongue, guards his soul from tribulations” (Mishlei 21:23). Shmiras haloshon is singled out because speech is man’s essential quality. Impairment of this power deprives the soul of its essential quality in the next world and is the source of its ultimate tribulation.
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David therefore declares, “Which man desires life, who loves days of seeing good? Guard your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit...”
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Shana Tova from Rav Fanger and the English office

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The most beautiful painting, as well as long journeys, are made up of many brush strokes, and many small precise steps. Step after step, heel after heel, a drop of paint followed by another drop, until the painting appears in its entirety and in all its glory. Until the road comes to an end and the person reaches his destination.
The road to Rosh Hashanah is long and full of obstacles. Many stains cover a person's sheet, and he has to work to remove?the?blemishes and mold his Rosh Hashanah. The journey is long, yet short. One small step, step by step,?is the beginning of the long journey? One?brush stroke joining the other until the painting is complete.

Each and every person creates his or her own Rosh Hashanah.
Three books?are opened?on Rosh Hashanah -Tzadikim, Reshaim, and?Benoni.??You write yourself in whichever book you choose.?Written?by decisions?- "What do I choose to be?"?The holy rabbi "Toldot Yaakov Yosef"?writes-dependent on how a?person decides in his mind how he will behave?in the coming year that?it is?what will be?written?for him?from above. Take upon yourself a?positive resolution?for Rosh Hashanah, a?positive action,?behavior, one mitzvah that you may have neglected last year.?

Let?us?come?to Rosh Hashana?with a "gift" in hand for?the upcoming year may it be filled with only good. May it be His will that we are?privileged to be written in the book of the righteous immediately for a good life and peace out of faith, joy, unity, and love.
Shana Tova
Rav Yitzchak Fanger?

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Today's Inspiration - Tzom Kal - G'mar chatima tova!

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Hiding from Supplicants

Said the Koretzer: "It is the royal etiquette that if guilty persons succeed in seeing the King, He pardons them. To prevent wholesale pardons, the King hides himself from the supplicants. It is thus with the King of Kings: He conceals Himself on the Judgment Day and we seek for the key which will open the door to the place of His hiding. We try our customary prayers, our hymns amd special prayers, the blowing of the shofar, and the varied intonations for the reading of the Torah. And when the traditional keys have all beeen used, one of them will surely open the hiding place of the Lord."

Source: Nofeth Tzufim

Free Rosh Hashanah Shiur on ZOOM

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DON’T TALK DURING DAVENING. SHANA TOVA

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SOURCES FOR NOT TALKING DURING DAVENING-FROM?

1) It is extremely important to refrain from talking “Sichas Chulin- mundane conversation” in a Shul, especially during davening and surely during Chazaras HaShatz and Krias HaTorah.

One who talks during Chazaras HaShatz is a sinner, and this sin is too great for any individual?to bear (This is the one and only place the Shulchan Aruch uses such language regarding not keeping a Halacha. The reason for this?is that just as when Kayin killed Hevel he virtually killed half of the world and Hashem told him that his sin is too great to bear, so too one who talks during davening is not only harming himself, but he/she is harming their children and all the other people in the Tzibbur, as when there is talking in Shul it causes the Shechinah to leave, and causes the tefilos of the entire shul to not be “heard and” accepted by Hashem.?Based on Tosefos Yom Tov, Sefer HaGan Derech Moshe, Igeres HaKodesh of MaHarDaB of Lubavitch?and other commentaries)

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2) All Jews are instructed to [respectfully] chastise anyone who talks during Chazaras HaShatz. It should first be done in a way that the offender isn’t being singled out, rather a s a general “announcement” to the Shul that it is too noisy. If that doesn’t work, the individual should be approached quietly.

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If one is told to be quiet and he ridicules the person rebuking him/her, they are subject to the [ quite unpleasant] rules prescribed in the Rambam?(Hilchos De’os Perek 6:7) and may eventually be barred from?entering the Shul. If one will talk in Shul, it is better for him/her to not come in the first place?(Kaf HaChaim Siman 151:8 and Chida in Sefer Pesach Einayim)

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This is not a Minhag (custom), Chumra (stringency) or Midas Chasidus (something only pious people do). It is an undisputed Halacha Mefureshes in Shulchan Aruch Siman 124:7 with its source in the words of Chazal and the Rishonim.

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3) Many sharp words have been written about the gravity and dire consequences of transgressing the sin of talking during davening, yet unfortunately too many otherwise religious Jews are still very lax when it comes to talking in Shul. Below is just a small sampling of the plethora of sources bemoaning this sinful practice, in the hopes that it may help people to start taking this Halacha more seriously and thus hasten the coming of Mashiach:

·????????One who talks?while the Tzibbur is praising Hashem Yisborach (i.e. during Chazaras HaShatz) is showing that he wants no part in [the praising of] Hashem?(Shulchan Aruch HaRav Siman 124:10 quoting the?Zohar in Parshas Terumah)

·????????Woe is to those that talk during Chazaras HaShatz, as many Shuls throughout Jewish history have been destroyed due to this sin.?(Mishna Berura 124:27 quoting the Elya Rabbah)

·????????Many Shuls have been turned into churches due to the fact that talking took place in those Shuls.?(Mogen Avraham Siman 151)

·????????One who talks during davening, his mouth becomes “Tamei- impure”, and when he davens with this mouth it is as if he is being Oved Avoda Zara- serving idols?(Drashos Chasam Sofer Vol. 2?Drasha for 7 Av)

·????????One who [habitually] talks during davening has no portion in Olam Haba, the world to come.?(Sefer M’Am Loez Parshas Bamidbar)

·????????The holy Rebbe of Gur, the Imrei Emes Zatzal, was known to have said that the tragedy of the holocaust that befell the Jewish people and cost us 6,000,000 lives, was brought upon us due to the sin of talking during davening, and the reason the Sephardic communities were for the most part spared, was due to their being scrupulous in not talking during davening?(Quoted in Sefer Tuvecha Yabiu Vol. 2 Page 321)

·????????Talking during Tefilah is delaying?the Geulah (final redemption/coming of Mashiach)?(Sefer Yesh Nochlin from?the father of the Shl”a HaKadosh. See also Sefer Mikdash Me’at Page 27 and Shu”t Yabia Omer Vol. 1 Siman?10:11)

·????????Talking during davening is the worst sin a Jew can do! It causes the Yetzer Hara to become empowered over the person, and one who talks during davening is a Choteh U’Machtee Es HaRabim- causes others to follow in his ways and sin as well, and is degrading the glory of Hashem?(Sefer Yesh Nochlin ibid.)

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4) Every Shul should appoint?a G-d fearing, strong person to be a Mashgiach to??reprimand and punish those who talk during davening?(Vavei HaAmudim quoted in?Pri Megadim Siman 124:11, and in Mishna Berura 124:27).

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The congregation should support and assist the aforementioned “Mashgiach”, and by doing so they will merit having their Tefilos answered.?(Sefer Birchas HaBayis Sha’ar 42)

In the zechus of strengthening ourselves in this important area, may we be zoche to the speedy arrival of Mashiach!

?Shana Tova

Hotsites, Videos, Photos and Some Humor....Shana Tova!

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Hi Everyone!

The Rosh Hashana hotsites have been updated at:

- Hamizrachi Magazine:
Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur 5782 (pdf, 64 pages)

- YU Torah To-Go Magazine
Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur 5782 (pdf, 44 pages)

- Ohrnet: OHR Somayach Torah Magazine
Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur & Sukkot 5782 (pdf, 30 pages)

- Torah Tidbits including Rosh Hashana Section

- Philo Torah including Rosh Hashana Section

There are now 893 Rosh Hashana videos at:

I added photos to the Rosh Hashana photo gallery at:

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Here are some oldies but goodies from the Rosh Hashana humor section:

World's Largest Gefilte Fish Caught in the Wild

Tequila Gedola

Apple Dipped in Honey

May Everyone Have a Healthy, Sweet and Good New Year!
Shana Tova!
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Today's Inspiration - Shana tova!

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Wicked and Good

Rabbi Bunam explained the verse in the New Year's Hymn: "And All Believe," reading: "He is good and He is kind to the wicked and the good." He said: "This means: 'God is kind to those who are sometimes wicked and sometimes good."

Source: Siach Sarfei Kodesh

While your prepare for Rosh Hashana the farmers are shaking.

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While your prepare for Rosh Hashana the farmers are shaking.? After surviving a year of lockdowns with hotels, restaurants, halls, and venus all canceling their orders the Israeli farmers are looking at another 13 months of total lockdown, and even then???? Yes, H'shem will provide for them, but who says it is not meant to be through you and me.? They are our representatives keeping the Mitzvah for us and Keren Hashviis/ Nshei Keren Hashviis is the only organization that gives each farmer the support they need.? Please let the farmers have a Shana Tova and a Chag Sameach knowing they will be fully supported by Am Yisroel, you, and me through the year of Shmitah.

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Shana Tova May this year bring real positive change

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