[TA] Toras Aish - Chayei Sarah

[Yitz Weiss]

Please read below for a great mitzvah opportunity from Micha Berger, the
original creator of Toras Aish! ESPECIALLY considering that last week was
Veteran's day, here's an opportunity to help out some of the people who put
themselves in harm's way for all our sakes.

Have a great shabbos!

Yitz

PS - For those who appreciate some good pun (or at least a groaner), follow
"Parsha Puns" on Twitter! (yes, it's me)
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From: Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org>
Subject: Chessed Opportunity

I just received the following request via aishdas.org 's "contact us" form.
Aside from an opportunity to help the religiously thirsty, for those of us
in the US, or support what the US is doing in Afghanistan,
it's an opportunity for hakaras hatov (recognizing the good) performed by
these soldiers.

I'm sending this appeal to over a thousand "of my closest friends" and G-d
Willing will soon blog it as well. Let's see what we can do for these men
and women in uniform.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

PS: To avoid spam, I'm deleting Master Sergeant Goldenberg's email address.
(Although he is BCC-ed) If you intend to help, contact me and I'll share it
with you.

Name: Stephen Goldenberg
Message:
Shalom,

My name is Stephen Goldenberg; I am currently deployed to Afghanistan and I
will be here for a total of 9 months in support of Operation Enduring
Freedom.

There are about 18 US Soldiers living on our small outpost here. The rest
are Afghanistan Police and Army. We only get resupplied about every 10 days
that includes food and water and mail. My duties and responsibilities are
to Serve as a Deputy Chief, Security Forces Assistance Team in support of
phase IV and V contingency operations during OEF XII Afghanistan; providing
a partnering/ mentoring capability to help build, train, advise and assist
indigenous civil and military organizations, enabling the host nation
officials assume responsibility for stability operations; I am working with
over 1300 of their Uniformed Police.

My other role here is a Jewish Lay Leader; we do not have any Jewish
support as of this time. There within my unit are a total 8 Jewish
Soldiers. Most of the time we do not get together due to mission
requirements and we are dispersed within different areas of operations. I
live in Texas and I am a member of an Orthodox Shul.

It would be nice to receive some Orthodox Seferiom (Talmud, Torah),
magazines and kosher food. You can also write to me at ....
my mailing address is,
   MSG GOLDENBERG STEPHEN J.
   TF MAVERICK OCCP
   BAGRAM AIRFIELD
   APO, AE 09354
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Please say some tehillim for Amichai ben Devorah Steinmetz who went missing
in India on 7/22/09 (details here: http://tinyurl.com/mao37b) Please take
out a few moments and say some tehillim (psalms) for the Israeli chayalim
(soldiers) & for everyone living in Israel. Please also same some tehillim
for the captive Israeli soldiers:
 Guy ben Rina (Hever), disappeared near the Syrian-Israeli border in the
Golan Heights in August 1997; Tzvi ben Pninah (Feldman), Yekutiel Yehuda
Nachman ben Sarah (Katz), Zecharia Shlomo ben Miriam (Baumel), all captured
at the Sultan Yaaqub battle in Lebanon on June 11,1982.
Also please keep in mind a Yeshiva student jailed in Japan:
Ya'akov Yosef ben Reizel
If you need some suggestions for which Tehillim (Psalms) to say, I'd
suggest # 20, # 130 & # 121
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If you haven't checked it out yet, please check out www.dovslist.org - GREAT
site for organizing tehillim and prayers for the sick created by my sister &
her husband in memory of their son Dov.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS LINK AROUND!
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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
Yosef Adam ben Elke
Chaya Rachel bas Devorah Mindel
Aidel Chaya bas Gittel
Binyomin Leib ben Pesha
Nachman Tzvi Hirsch ben Elka
Meir Tzvi ben Mirka
Yisrael ben Dina
Oriya bat Michal
David ben Zohara
 Binyamin ben Blanka
Avigdor Chai Avraham ben Rahchol Leah (8/24)
Devorah bat Chana Bayla (11/4)
Yoel ben Bracha Ahuva (11/11)
Kayla Rut bat Chaya Rachel (11/11)
Tova Rachel bat Malka (11/11)
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Names added:
Eliyahu Shmuel ben Chaya Bina (11/18)
Yitzchak ben Mazal (11/18)
Raizel bas Chaya Sara (11/18)

Names removed:
Rina Tziporah bat Orah (10/21)
Yitzchak ben Mazal (10/21)
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