Pesach Is Coming – Please Stand With Us
ateretcohanimShalom Shalom to our friends and supportersChodesh tov (We were redeemed in Nisan and will be redeemed in Nisan)I hope you are all coping, in whatever situation you find yourself, in this challenging period of the Corona pandemic. Refuah Shleima from the Heavens, to all who require, and may Hashem help all those in “NEED”. (Health, financial or otherwise.)
It’s now the countdown to Pesach…..so rather than just write Chag Pesach Sameach VeKasher in the week of Pesach, i thought i’d give you some food for thought beforehand.This email is both for those of you sitting in “your isolation with “zoom meetings” as your “shoulder” in your own egyptian style “exile” of today, and also for those who are living in Israel.
Chag Pesach Sameach VeKasher from Yerushalayim – the city of hope and light to the entire world !!!!
May you and your family have a HEALTHY, fulfilling, inspirational and uplifting Chag Pesach.
After sitting in “isolation” behind closed doors with their immediate families, while a plague was raging “outside” – we ultimately left Egypt under the clear, mighty, miraculous and outstretched ‘Hand of G-d’.
He then guided us in the desert, before we reached our final destination of Eretz Yisrael.
It took another 480 years before King Solomon built the Beit Mikdash-Temple and a magnificent Jerusalem.
Two traumatic exiles and 3000 years later – after being driven from all Arab States and after having a third of the Jewish people annihilated in Nazi-controlled Europe, we have risen from the ashes of the Holocaust and we have witnessed the “muscles and sinews” forming on the prophesized “dry bones” .
We have returned home to our Land of Israel and we have even managed to unify “our” Jerusalem, as the eternal capital in the State of Israel.
YES: Our world seems to be overturned by this contagious Coronavirus.
But the crown of Corona will not defeat the Crowns of Jerusalem, Torah and Am Yisrael.
There was redemption after the turmoil of the plague.
YES: There are still many hurdles, many enemies and even the remnants of Amalek, and Bnei Esav/Yishmael on our doorstep and in world forums,
BUT we have come leaps and bounds.
There is still a lot of work to be done in the heart of Jerusalem, but at Ateret Cohanim – we are on the right path !!
Thanks for being our partner in the past, and we look forward to your further and ongoing support in the future.
We have needed you in the past and we need you today, more than ever before.
Our children and Yeshiva students at the forefront and our needy families in the Old City and its’ environs,
like the Shiloach and Kidmat Zion, need your financial input and generosity.
A small number of families both in and around the Old City, are truly struggling financially, and so we as an organization,
try to find the appropriate and honourable way to help them, in this period prePesach.
Bottom line – Kimche DePischa is real for some…especially with the effects of Corona being widespread.
(And yes, we do appreciate and know that many of you have TAKEN A HIT)
So thank you in advance for those who can help !!!
Kimche DePischa and/or any donation, in our time of need, is always welcome.
Toda raba.
Next year in a united and rebuilt Jerusalem !!
Chag Pesach Kasher Ve’Sameach
(We all have plenty of time to plan a beautiful inspiring Seder for ourselves and our kids. )
Daniel Luria
from Ateret Cohanim in Yerushalayim
