Year: 2019

החוברת החדשה: רשימת אטרקציות שומרות שבת, ועוד

אי אפשר לתאר את הקידוש ד’ הנפלא שאתם עושים, כל אחד ואחד כיחיד, וכולנו כציבור, כשבקלות וללא טרחה מרובה מעדיפים לחזק את שומרי השבת, וגם בבין הזמנים ללכת למקומות שמכבדים את אבינו שבשמיים ואת שבת המלכה.
אנחנו מקבלים הרבה מאוד דיווחים, על עוד מפעל, ועוד עסק, ועוד אתר נופש, ועוד תחנות דלק, שקיבלו על עצמם לכבד את השבת, וכולם מדגישים באוזנינו שמה שהשפיע יותר מכל זה כח הקניה של ציבור שומרי השבת!
מצורפת החוברת שיצאה זה עתה לאור, בזכותכם ולמענכם, ובה רשימה מעודכנת של אתרי הנופש, תחנות דלק ואטרקציות שומרות שבת, וכן כתבות בלעדיות בנושא ייצור הזכוכית בשבת, ובנושא ייצור החלב בארץ ישראל. (וגם קופונים לשימושכם, מכבדי השבת!)
ממשיכים לראות את הפירות הנפלאים שלכם, ועינינו רואות איך עוד חברה, ועוד עסק, ועוד אטרקציה מקבלים על עצמם לכבד את מוקירי השבת. אשריכם ישראל!
בברכת השבת,

שומרי שבת
נ.ב. כידוע, כל מאמצינו הם לכבוד שבת קודש ללא מטרות רווח. עלויות איסוף החומר ובירורו, הגרפיקה, ההדפסה וההפצה מסתכמים בהון עתק. זכו עוד היום גם אתם במניות בקידוש ד’ הנפלא בתרומה לפעילות כאן או בטלפון 02-6739795. וכן בעמדות נדרים וקהילות בקופת ‘שומרי שבת’.
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ספר שדי תפוחים – שני חלקים: אוצר תיקוני עוונות

ספר שדי תפוחים החדש

הוא ספר התקונים, וזאת תורת האדם
אשר יתן אל לבו לשוב מעבירות שבידו
בעודנו חי וכפר מאשר חטא על הנפש ושב
ורפא לו

נערך ונסדר על ידי הרב יוסף שבתאי (שני)

תוכן הענינים לחלק ראשון (תשע”ה):

הוראות למשתמש בספר
הַקְדָּמָּה 1
מָּבוֹא 9
הקדמה נוספת אודות התיקונים הנוספים 22
מהלכות תשובה להחיד”א זיע”א 32
עִנְיַן קְרִיאַת שְמַע שֶׁעַל הַמִטָּה 45
סֵדר קְרִיאַת שְמַע שֶׁעַל הַמִטָּה 47
עִנְיָּן תִקּוּן חֲצוֹת 57
בִרְכּוֹת הַשַחַר 60
סֵדֶר תִקּוּן חֲצוֹת 62
עִנְיָּן אִסּוּר זֶרַע לְבַטָּלָּה, וְתִקּוּנוֹ 69
תִקּוּן לַעֲווֹן הַנִדָּה 83
תִקּוּן לַעֲווֹן הַגּוֹיָּה 103
תִקּוּן לְעָּוֹן מִשְכָּּב זָּכָּר 123
תִקּוּן לַעֲווֹן אֵשֶׁת אִיש 158
תִקּוּן הַכַּעַס 178
תִקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁלֹּא הִנִיחַ תְפִלִין 190
תִקּוּן לִשְבוּעַת שֶׁקֶר 201
תִקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁחַיָּב אֶחָּד מֵאַרְבַע מִיתוֹת בֵית דִין 210
תִקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁטִמֵא נִשְמָּתוֹ בַשֵדִים 221
תִקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁנִכְשַל בַ”עֲבוֹדָּה זָּרָּה” 233
עִנְיָּן פְגַם רְאִיוֹת אֲסוּרוֹת וְתִקּוּנוֹ 250
תִקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁאָכַל אוֹ הֵאֱכִיל טְרֵפוֹת לְיִשְרָּאֵל 263
תִקּוּן לְעָּוֹן הגאוה 272
תִקּוּן לְעָּוֹן כבוד אב ואם 281
תִקּוּן לְחִלוּל שַבָּת 291
תִקּוּן לַפוֹגֵם בִכְבוֹד שַבָּת 319
תִקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁעָּשְתָּה הַפָּלָּה מְלַאכוּתִית 326
עִנְיַן עִכּוּב הַזִוּוּג וְהַפַרְנָּסָּה 333
תִקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁמִתְעַכֵּב זִוּוּגוֹ אוֹ פַרְנָּסָּתוֹ 335
סגולה לְזִוּוּגוֹ 351
תִקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁמִתְעַכֵּב זִוּוּגָּה אוֹ פַרְנָּסָּתָּהּ 352
סגולה לְזִוּוּגָּה 363
תִקּוּן הַפִלֶגֶש וְהַקְּדֵשָּה 364
תִקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁגִּלַח זְקָּנוֹ בְתַעַר, אוֹ שֶׁהֵקִיף פֵאוֹת הָּרֹאש 389
תִקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁחקק על בשרו כתובת קעקע 404
תִקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁלַ בש שעטנז 420
עִנְיַן פְגָּמֵי הַפה וְתִקּוּנָּם 433
תִקּוּן פְגָּמֵי הַפֶה 443
תִקּוּן הַדַעַת 503
תקון למי ששכב עם אחותו 523
תקון למי שאין לו ילדים 547
תָּנָּ”ךְ לְלֵיל שָּבוּעוֹת 575
אַדְרָּא זוּטָּא 608
מסכת שבת 641
מִשְנָּיוֹת לֵיל שָּבוּעוֹת 660
סֵדֶר תַעֲנִית הַדִבוּר 689
סֵדֶר הַתָּרַת קְלָּלוֹת 707
תקון הנפטרים 711
תשובה בענין תקוני עוונות 727

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תוכן הענינים לחלק שני (תשע”ט):

הוראות למשתמש בספר

תִּקּוּן הַמַחֲשָׁבָה 1

תִּקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁהִלְוָה אוֹ לָוָה בְרִיבִּית 12

תִּקּוּן לְמִי שֶׁאָכַל חָמֵץ בְפֶסַח 27

סֶדֵר תִּקּוּן כָּרֵת 42

תִּקּוּן כְְּּלָלִי לְִגִלְגּוּלִים קוֹדְמִים 77

תִּקּוּן הַקרי וחילול ה’ 147

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Does Higher Education PRODUCE Wealth? No!

Check out a great article here by Gary North on the governmental cartel known as academia:

Higher education serves the business world as a screening system. They can hire people knowing that these people have displayed these valuable traits: (1) an unwillingness to assess the long-term alternative economic returns from their use of time; (2) their psychological ability to spend many hours a week listening to economically useless lectures; (3) their willingness to leap through a series of bureaucratic hoops that have no justification other than maintaining the existing bureaucracy’s authority. These are the traits desired by businesses in a world where the government regulates the marketplace. They are the traits of bureaucrats. This is the world aimed at by government regulators. It is a world remade in their image.

These traits have little to do with successful entrepreneurship. Businessmen make use of this system because it produces obedient middle managers. Also, it screens indirectly for IQ. Only people with IQ’s above 100 are likely to get through college with a degree.

Businessmen know that entrepreneurship is as entrepreneurship does. They can cull the hot-shots in terms of actual performance on the job. Will Smith’s movie, The Pursuit of Happyness, is an artistically compelling description of this system. It is a true story.

To think that America’s tax-subsidized system of education is the source of America’s economic growth is to confuse cause with effect. It is only because of rising productivity that governments can afford to build and fund the self-regulated, insulated, and monopolistic industry known as formal education.

These systems get what they pay for: graduates who believe that the state is the source of economic growth. I offer Bernanke’s speech is a typical example.

(For more on this, see here.)

American manufacturing was outsourced to Asia. Is this a good thing?

The move to paper-shuffling has been a direct effect of the bureaucratization of the American economy. The Federal government is the prime mover here, not the free market. The free market has responded to changing economic incentives. As the state has claimed ever-greater control over the American economy, profit-seeking businessmen have shifted production to meet the economic demand of the government. The government taxes money, borrows money, and prints money. Then it spends it. Entrepreneurs follow the money.

The academic guild helps the “Haves”. But where does wealth originally come from?

The heart of economic production is a combination of (1) entrepreneurial economic foresight […]; (2) a system of sanctions imposed by consumers: profit-and-loss; (3) private property.

The Future of U.S. Medicare:

People pay $1,500 for services worth $7,000. Is this program likely to grow? Is it likely to bankrupt the Federal government? Will this lead to mass inflation and long lines in clinics with waiting rooms filled with old people? Count on it.

If you wonder why there is a boom in health care services, cease wondering. It is not simply that Americans are aging. It is that the Federal government has created a bureaucratic monster based on subsidized health care services. Today, the unfunded liability of Medicare in present dollars is in the range of $70 trillion.

What do students learn in community colleges?

Whatever their part-time, $15 an hour instructors can teach them. These are liberal arts institutions, mostly, and to get an AA degree, a student must take half his courses in the liberal arts. By the academic standards of the public schools in my day, let alone my parents’ day, these courses are high school courses — tax-funded, dumbed down high schools — for students who did not do well in high school.

Why are colleges relatively low cost?

… tax-subsidized costs imposed on local property owners… Furthermore, this cost would be lower if the state did not restrict the number of schools. How does it do this? Through the system of academic licensing, known as academic accreditation.

Are public libraries used to improve job skills? No.

Have you ever walked into a library and seen a section on “Job Training”? I never have. Is there any indication that people are coming in to get materials on career enhancement? No. How do I know? Because the local library closes at 5 p.m., before people get off work. If public libraries were serving people looking to improve their job skills, they would open at noon and close at 8.

See the rest of it here…

Quick Tip: Hold on to SOME Kedushas Tzion Issues! (Start with the Upcoming One)

Question: What do you do with your copy of Kedushas Tzion after you’re done?

Some Jews prefer saving almost any Torah clippings. But even if you don’t share that habit, I submit you may want to hold onto those newsletters discussing yearly occasions/holidays. Otherwise, you may miss the perspective that can’t be found elsewhere (not all essays are of the same quality!).

And yes, all Yamim Tovim related to Kedushas Tzion’s ideas…

From Lakewood to Beit Shemesh: An INSIDE VIEW

Eretz Chemdah: An Inside View

Various Perspectives and Experiences of Anglo-Chareidim Living in Eretz Yisroel

From Lakewood to Beit Shemesh

We came to Eretz Yisroel in the summer of 2014 after living in Lakewood for almost seven years. Being “in-towners” originally from Monsey and Flatbush, moving to Eretz Yisroel wasn’t really the “in” thing to do, so why did we?

We always had a soft spot for Eretz Yisroel, but, like most people, we didn’t think it was realistic for us to live here long-term, so we settled in Lakewood, New Jersey like everyone else. After being inspired by a friend, I started to research the significance of living in Eretz Yisroel and how it has recently become exponentially more practical. At some point it dawned on me that Eretz Yisroel today is actually a most-amazing opportunity presented by Hashem, and I wanted to be a part of this project that was bringing us to Klal Yisroel’s ultimate destiny.

Like in the U.S., we have our very own “upstate”—except that it’s Tzfas and Meron. The actual mountains seem to always be singing. Looking for Miami? No need to fly. Within a car ride of just an hour or so you can be taking in the sun-washed shores of Netanya. Of course, the greatest of them all is being able to type “The Kotel” or “Kever Rachel” into Waze and it tells me “you are forty-five minutes away.”

Before we immigrated to Eretz Yisroel, we went to get a bracha from Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, shlit”a. He clearly stressed the importance of making sure that my wife would be happy there. It also seemed very important to him that we had a plan for parnassah, which we were indeed confident about. At that time, I was working for a tech company that would let me take my job with me, so we didn’t have any excuse not to go. Working American hours in Eretz Yisroel meant that the mornings would be utilized for learning (what a better way to start a day), shopping and other errands, and this is something that many others are doing in our community in Eretz Yisroel.

Although my family would miss us, they respected the idea and were very supportive. My wife had two brothers already living in Eretz Yisroel, which made it much easier. WhatsApp and Skype can’t replace the real thing, so our parents now come visit about once a year, and we go once every few years for the summer.

We settled in Ramat Beit Shemesh, which has many nice American Yeshiva-style communities like where we came from. There are tens of shuls which range from yeshivish to balebatish to heimish. Some are into integrating with Israelis, while others work to create an entirely American environment. We have found American immigrants who have been successful coming with children of all ages, but they generally live in the more American neighborhoods that seem more appropriate for such a move. It is of course easier to integrate when the kids are younger.

Most people in my community are those who have stayed on for long-term after coming to Eretz Yisroel for yeshiva, and mostly originated in out-of-town communities; though I do know other people, besides myself, who have come here directly from in-town places like Lakewood and Monsey.

As our oldest child was turning six when we came here, chinuch was already at the forefront of our minds. People had warned us that things are different in Eretz Yisroel and there aren’t any schools that have the variety and balance that you’ll find in the U.S. When doing our research, a very different picture emerged, and when we arrived, we were glad to see that our fears about chinuch were unfounded. B”H, there are many schools that cater to Americans like us, some geared to kollel families, others with a working parent body, and then some more that are in between. In general, the schools with higher percentages of Americans seem to be more balebatish, and the ones more kollel-oriented seem to have a higher percentage of Israelis, though there are exceptions.

I think that we frum Yidden coming from America have what to contribute to society in Eretz Yisroel. For one, many of us bring a can-do attitude—we won’t just take situations as a given but will try to improve them. Another is the fact that we are proud and content to be hard-working and self-supporting ehrlicher Yidden. For us, after five or ten years of learning, this is just a new and different phase of our avodas Hashem—not a failure. Of course, there is much for us Americans to learn as well from the surrounding Israeli Chareidi society, including a much-less focus on materialism.

Living here has brought our lives to a different plane of existence, which has manifested in several different aspects. One thing that really stands out is the diversity. Even though in any specific neighborhood there might be just one kind of group, it takes only a three-minute drive to reach any public area—shopping, leisure, etc.—and all the walls fall apart and all types of Jews are interacting and getting along. It’s beautiful to see so many different colors and flavors of Yidden living side by side in harmony.

Our Very Own “Mountains”

Like in the U.S., we have our very own “upstate”—except that it’s Tzfas and Meron. The actual mountains seem to always be singing. Looking for Miami? No need to fly. Within a car ride of just an hour or so you can be taking in the sun-washed shores of Netanya. Of course, the greatest of them all is being able to type “The Kotel” or “Kever Rachel” into Waze and it tells me “you are forty-five minutes away.”

– Tzvi Moshe Arnstein, Ramat Beit Shemesh Gimmel

This article is part of the Eretz Chemdah series featuring Anglo-Chareidim living in, settling, and building up Eretz Yisroel. A joint project of Avira D’Eretz Yisroel, Kedushas Tzion and Naava Kodesh, coordinated by Yoel Berman – yoel@naavakodesh.org.

Reprinted from Matzav.com.