[TA] Toras Aish - Toldos

Wed Nov 22 17:29:03 PST 2006

Please scroll down for a great article and a mitva opportunity from my  
cousin.

Happy Turkey Day & have a great shabbos!

Yitz

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catalog!" You choose the cost (ranges from $20 - $500) and they get to choose  
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Please call/email Yitz Weiss at 973-472-0180 _yitzw at aol.com_ 
(mailto:yitzw at aol.com) 
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Dear friends,

Often when I think of this amazing FTS list, the words "Mi k'amcha  Yisrael?" 
come to mind.  This is especially true when I look back on the  kindness you 
have shown to my cousin Berel's widow Chavie, mother, bli ayin  hara, of 13 
children.  (If you missed the original post, please see  below.)

In the midst of the heartache, I shared with you back in May the wonderful  
news that Berel's daughter had become a kallah.  The wedding date, b'sha'ah  
tovah, is approaching (November 28, a date chosen so that all family members  
would no longer be in aveilus).

Well, I just got a sobering call from my cousin Shmuel (Berel's cousin  too). 
 He just heard from Berel's close friend that Chavie - too  embarrassed to 
tell us - is distraught because she lacks sufficient funds to pay  for the 
wedding and the young couple's basic needs as they start their life  together.

Of course, we cousins (unfortunately, virtually all the aunts and uncles  are 
no longer with us) are going to do all we can without delay.  If you  can 
help in any way at all, I beseech you to send your tax-deductible donation  
(every penny will go to help this orphaned kallah) to:

Congregation Shomrei Hadas
c/o Rabbi Shmuel Gross
1328 E. 9th  Street
Brooklyn, NY  11230

Gratefully,

Chavi Willig Levy

Original post:

Shalom, all.  Chavi Willig Levy here.  As many of you know, I  have been 
blessed with a large extended family, bli ayin hara, including a raft  full of 
cousins.  For as long as I can remember, a favorite cousin was  Berel Weiss.

We were as different as night and day: I a college-educated, "liberated"  
female raised on a misnaged track, he a Bobover chasid through and  through.  But 
our differences mattered not a whit to either of us.  I  lit up whenever I 
saw him, payos and all, his warm smile melting any shred of  pessimism that 
might have crossed my path.  His acceptance was  unconditional; never did I detect 
in him a sign of discomfort regarding my  disability or of judgment regarding
our religious differences.

I remember his wedding as if it were yesterday.  He was 20 years old  in 1974 
when he stood under the chuppah with his kallah, Chavie.  I was 22,  a Chavi 
who would not stand under the chuppah for nearly a decade more.   But if I 
ever felt despair, I always had Berel and his eishes chayil to bolster  me with 
their optimism and emunah.  They welcomed Michael into the family  with open 
arms.  They were overjoyed when Tehilah and Aharon, bli ayin  hara, arrived on 
the scene.

Berel came to Aharon's bar mitzvah melaveh malkah in November 2004, even  
though it was difficult for us to attend the many simchas that arose since the  
birth of his and Chavie's 13 children, bli ayin hara.

Who would have dreamed that, within a year, he would be gone?  Who  could 
have known, when he had told no one that he had been ill for eight  years?

For over four decades, my cousin Berel davened that I, Chava Ita bas Ella,  
be granted a refuah shleimah.  As Pesach approaches, I am writing to ask  you 
to join me as I repay my debt.

A fund has been established to support Berel's widow and children. Any  
amount that you can donate will go directly to support them.  Your  contribution is 
tax-deductible and can be mailed to:

Congregation Shomrei Hadas
c/o Rabbi Shmuel Gross
1328 E. 9th  Street
Brooklyn, NY  11230

Auf simchas and many thanks,

Chavi Willig Levy

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Hi!  I thought you'd like to  know that _www.aish.com_ (http://www.aish.com/) 
 has just published an  essay of mine:

_http://www.aish.com/societyWork/society/A_Tale_of_Two_Circuses.asp_ 
(http://www.aish.com/societyWork/society/A_Tale_of_Two_Circuses.asp) 

If the spirit moves you, please post  a comment at the bottom of the article. 
 The more readers' comments  they get, the better my chances for more 
assignments - and a pay hike from the  paltry sum they now offer.  So if you feel 
like sharing the link with  friends, I'd appreciate it!

Gratefully,
Chavi

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - -
Chava Willig Levy
In Print.  In Person.  On  Audio.
_http://www.chavawilliglevy.com_ (http://www.chavawilliglevy.com/) 
Blog: _http://chava.chavawilliglevy.com_ (http://chava.chavawilliglevy.com/) 

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Please take out a few moments and say some tehillim  (psalms) for the Israeli 
chayalim (soldiers) & for everyone living in  Israel. Israel also has eight 
soldiers in enemy captivity, namely:

Gilad  ben Aviva (Shalit), captured just outside Gaza on June 25 of this year;
Ehud  ben Malka (Goldwasser) and Eldad ben Tova (Regev), captured on the  
Israeli-Lebanese border July 12 of this year;
Guy ben Rina (Hever),  disappeared near the Syrian-Israeli border in the 
Golan Heights in August  1997;
Ron ben Batya (Arad), captured when his plane was downed over Lebanon  in 
Oct. 1986;
Tzvi ben Pninah (Feldman), Yekutiel Yehuda Nachman ben Sarah  (Katz), and 
Zecharia Shlomo ben Miriam (Baumel), all captured at the Sultan  Yaaqub battle in 
Lebanon on June 11,1982. 
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Any names  on our mishebayrach list over a month old will be deleted unless 
I'm told  otherwise. Please say mishebayrach for: 

Yonatan ben Malka 
Baruch  Yosef ben Adina Batya 
Shira bat Yaffa (Chazan) 
Moria bat Leah (Zamir)  
Shabtai ben Rivka (Cohen) 
Rachel Chaya bat Roiza
Rephael Avraham ben  Ora Yutel
Labin ben Temimah Esther
Yosef Adam ben Elke
Leah Sarah bas  Raizel
Yehuda ben Yehudis
Miriam bas Chava Shaindel
Avrohom Chaim ben  Yenta Freida
Dovid Yifrach  ben Freeda

Daniel Mordechai ben  Miriam 

Yechiel Yaakov Tzvi ben Devorah Esther  (6/9)

Rina Shifra bat Rivka (8/25)

Yitzchak Tzvi ben Chana Reeva (10/27)

Dovid Zev ben Malkah Faiga (10/27)
Daniel Dov ben Rashka (10/27)
Avrohom Mordechai ben Fruma Rachel (10/27)
Chaim ben Devora (11/3)  
Yuri Rafael ben Esther (11/3)
Smada bas Prachiya Yifrach (11/3)
Eliezer Aharon R'Fael ben Esther Enya (11/10)

Masha Chaya bas Slova (11/17)
Chaya Miriam bas Fruma (11/17)
Rochel bas Masha (11/17)

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Names added: 

Eliezar Yosef Chaim ben Leah (11/24)

Names removed:  

Sara Liba bas Sima (10/20)

Tinok ben Nechama (10/20)
Tzivya bat Chana (10/20)
Meir Chaim ben Leyah Devorah (10/20)
Chaya bas Chana Rivka (10/20)
Reuven Gabriel Chaim ben Zeisa (10/20)
Devorah Chaya bat Batya (10/20)
Devorah bat Zisa Raizel (10/20)
Rochel bat Shaindel (10/20)
Rivka Yocheved bat Ita (10/20)
Atara Gilah bat Rut Chava (10/20)
Dora bat Chaya Sora (10/20)
Uri Chaim Yosef ben Devora (10/20)
Miriam Rivka bat Malka (10/20)
Shlomit bas Chaya Leeba (10/20)

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