Hey everyone,


I miss you all so much, and I hope you know my love for you is endless.

I will try my hardest for this to make sense, and Hashem should bless me, and you, and all of klal yisroel with nothing but love and sweetness.

So lets give it a shot and see if we can start , grow, and learn together a little for pesach..

I dont know about you, but I always remember sitting at the end of the seder,after this lavish feast, filled with singing and dancing and asking myself -Whats the story with the afikoman? Whats the deal with this piece of matzah that we end our meal with? That after all of this, after all the production, after all the questions, after the the entire story and razzle dazzle its just us and this little matzah chillin out...Whats going on? What is it about the afikoman that makes us say, this is the right way for us to end this amazing night. And I think the answer is simple.

After a night filled with greatness,intrigue, grandeur, and awesomeness,it all comes back to simplicity.

The answer is staring us right in our faces. And the answer is, simple.

Life is not simple in any way. To say that it is, would be unrealistic and untrue. Each one of us has our own problems,struggles, and challenges. Be it at work,school, job, financial ,family, etc.... Even our relationship with Hashem also comes with struggle; if it didn't it wouldnt be authentic.

The one area in life, that should be simple, is our simple love for Hashem and His simple Love for us in return. That's what i think the simplicity of Pesach is all about. Simple Love. We must always know that no matter what, Hashem loves us and we must love him in return.. That we can put on the biggest fanciest show filled with the greatest production, in the world, but in the end all Hashem wants is our love,our hearts and our souls, That's the meaning and simplicity of Pesach and Afikoman.. SIMPLE LOVE FOR HASHEM. That no matter what, nothing can ever break or cause that love to be broken. And that's the beauty and simplicity of Pesach and Afikoman.That no matter what,that love is unstoppable and unbreakable.

So, as we sit at our seder tables, after a long night, we we must ask ourselves. "Are we feeling the simplicity? Are we feeling the love?" I hope so.

With much love

Gut yur, Gut purim, Gut pesach

Yosef Chaim Yissachar

Elevate your yom tov meals!

Dear Family and Friends,


The Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation has put out a Pesach - Peh-Sach Project. One of the interpretations of the name "Pesach" is Peh-Sach, which means “the mouth that speaks” and it is therefore a time to be extra careful in the way that we use the great gift of speech.

We are asking that you participate in the program in the zechus of a refuah sheleima for Yosef Chaim Yissachar ben Chaye Mushkit. Designate your Shabbos and Yom Tov meal as a Machsom L’fi, where the entire family will avoid loshon hora and ona’as devarim as a zechus for a refuah sheleima. A Machsom Lfi has been the catalyst for countless stories of yeshuos. Please see the link below for all the specifics of this beautiful program and how to be involved. If for any reason you are not able to follow the program as described in the PDF below, please try to at least make a conscious effort to refrain from negative speech at your Yom Tov meals.

In the zechus of our undertaking this wonderful effort may Chaim have a speedy and complete refuah and may our families be blessed and we all be zocheh to witness the final Geulah!.

http://www.chofetzchaimusa.org/Booklet.pdf

Shiur this Wed night!

While Pesach is almost upon us all, we plan to continue our dedicated time of learning b'tzibur in the zechus of a refuah shelaima for Yosef Chaim Yissachar ben Chaye Mushkit


We are honored to have Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter share his meaningful and inspiring words entitled:

"Seeking Redemption in an Unredeemed World"

Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter
SENIOR SCHOLAR, YU CENTER FOR THE JEWISH FUTURE,UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF JEWISH HISTORY AND JEWISH THOUGHTADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR IN JEWISH STUDIES

Wednesday night, April 4th

8:00-9:00

Cong Beth Abraham

Tehillim to follow



Call in number 1-610-214-0000

Participant access code 450754#

*Please remember to mute your phone when calling in*

More 24 hour learning!

Shalom all,

Talia and Chaim very much appreciated the 24 hour learning that was done this past week. They asked if we could do it again this week on Sunday and Monday. Please sign up below if it is possible for you to join in on this great learning opportunity for Yosef Chaim Yissachar ben Chaya Mushkit!

Thank you!

Learning for Chaim-24 hour -


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvC8xx_V1usfdHNxR1hKQ0ZMUnB6TkpPeG9VR0FPQ1E

More 24 hour learning for Chaim!!

Thank you to the overwhelming response for the 24 hour learning for Yosef Chaim Yissachar!


We are going to try to do it again for tomorrow- Thursday March 29th again starting at 6am. On the spreadsheet it is the 4th column...

Thank you ! keep up all the learning and tefillos!!!!


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Avoum3UDBAGOdGtsNkJKY2w1V0NOTVR5bnRlRXhYdkE

Letter from Chaim

This email from Chaim was transcribed by his wife Talia:


Dear friends and family,

I'm sorry I have not been in touch with you sooner, however it has been a wild week for me, a week that which I don't remember most and have been confused by a lot. But there is one thing that has never been shaken and that is the trust and belief that I have in Hashem. To be honest with you I am not really sure all of its details that went down and I am certainly not sure of the future that will be, but there's one thing I do know and that is that Hashem will always be guiding me, loving me, protecting me, watching over me and carrying me.


Hashem you are my love,

you are my joy,

you are my savior

and you are my protector.


Hashem I hope and I pray that you give me the strength to continue growing, to continue to try and spread your great name in this tiny little world.


If you have a spouse, go home and kiss your spouse.

If you have children, go home and kiss them.


If you have been praying for a child, or a spouse please never give up your search because as long as we keep trying, no matter how hard the struggle may seem Hashem will always provide for us. It is a hard search and it is a hard struggle but Hashems love is too great for us to stop trying.


Hashem loves you and Hashem loves every Jew and no matter what happens, that love will never ever disappear.


I love you all very very much and let's just keep going. Hope to speak to you soon.


With much love,

Yosef Chaim Yissachar













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Refuahforchaim.blogspot.com

TUESDAY NIGHT!

A letter that R' Moshe Tzvi (Matt) Weinberg sent out...

Dear Friends -

As you probably all know, my brother-in-law Yosef Chaim Yissachar Feigenbaum has been battling leukemia for a long time now. He really needs our help to "storm the Heavens" (an expression I have heard many use in recent days) on his behalf. After a long and important chat today with the great Ari Silverman, he felt (correctly so) that we need to do more - and davka to do so in a way that would be meaningful to Chaim.

Therefore, this Tuesday night at 10pm, we will gather in the heights (somewhere in the Glueck building - probably 4th floor) for a special late night event for chaim's refuah. The goal is to serve Hashem with all of our faculties in a way that Chaim would want us to.

1) We will first engage our minds (and souls) with words of torah [in this short chabura we will discuss IY"H the 5th cup at the seder and the coming of mashiach].

2) We will then express ourselves with the koach of dibbur with a special "Stollel" maariv.

3) And we will conclude the evening with niggunim and dancing - to lift our bodies just a bit off the ground and hopefully give Chaim's body the added strength he needs.

[If dancing for someone who is not yet well sounds strange - keep in mind the idea that the soul resides in mind, heart and liver. The lowest dimension is in the liver which corresponds to the physical nature of man. As chaim has had difficulties in recent weeks with his liver, we will try to serve Hashem by singing and dancing with great dveykus and strength using our entire bodies in the process. I take full blame for this idea for those who find it unusual - but it makes sense to me and we have to do everything we can....]


IY"H we will share some good news soon of his improved condition and slowly but surely we hope and pray that he will have a refuah sheleimah.

With much gratitude (and a longing to see you there),

mtw