Letters to the editor 3-5-2010

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Nothing but a red herring

To the Editor:

I’m glad the other rabbis are not being koi (Rabbis fish for ban on salmon; Feb. 29, 2010). This is nothing but a red herring, and I’m glad they’re hoisting this troublemaker up on a pike. I’ll tell you: anyone trying to convince me that the Gemorah needs updating is going to have a halibutime.

Eliezer Eisenberg

Chicago

Purim miracle

To the Editor:

As I was navigating through the post-Purim maze of candy, cakes and clever little spiels, I came across the beautiful card that was sent to my family by our dear friends from the Five Towns. I found the artwork so enchanting and that I decided to have it framed for my desk. After opening the card, I realized that the artist is none other than a Kulanu child, which made me think how every child, Kulanu or otherwise, is blessed with talents, some more overt and perhaps some more hidden. As we learn from the Megillah, the possibility of miracles abounds when they are least expected.

Thank you, Kulanu, for teaching all of us this valuable lesson.

Shira Teichman

Spring Valley, NY

Different kind of Purim Torah

To the Editor:

The Purim ‘revolution’ event was a beautiful success: more than 100 boys learning in the bais hamedrash on Purim night (Different kind of Purim Torah; Feb. 29, 2010). It was like a regular first seder and the spirit was beautiful and festive.

Some boys stayed hours after the program ended and continued to learn. Many of them came over to thank us personally for making their Purim so meaningful. A group of special bochurim even came to our houseduring the day, to enhance our Purim.

Let me share one episode with you: a boy from a yeshiva in Boro Park called and asked to join and learn for two hours and collect $250 for his personal tzedakah. Although our funds were limited, he was persistent and after he explained that it was for a desperately poor family in Boro Park, he was added to the program.

On Purim day he called with great simcha. He learned for two hours and wanted to deliver the money on Purim. He came over, a tall and fine young man of 18 or 19 years of age. I was sitting with someone who was interested in more details about the family, as he wanted to lend a hand if he could. The boy stopped smiling; he explained that the money was for his family. His father is over $100 thousand in

Debt; their electricity had been shut off a few times this year and the grocery is not extending his family any more credit. What a mature bochur, trying to help his father in such a beautiful way. He received an extra $250 for his family and we received the simcha of knowing that the learning of bochurim (young men) on Purim was a special and double aliya (elevation) for everyone who participated.

Mitzvah goreres mitzvah (one good deed leads to another); let’s help this beautiful family for Pesach. They simply cannot pay their weekly grocery bills. To make a donation please mail your tax-deductible check to:

Congregation Supporters of Torah

580 East 8th Street

Brooklyn, NY 11218

(On the memo line please add: To the wonderful boy helping his family)

R’ Zev Smith shlita once ended a shiur, “People bemoan that we are a ‘ME’ generation! Well, I can’t argue! Look around at Klal Yisroel. Are there not enough reasons to say that we are a, “ME K’amcho Yisroel generation?” May we merit to continue this program until Moshiach.

Itzy & Chanie Eckstein

Kensington