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.<br>
<br>Have a great shabbos! <br>
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Yitz<br>
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<div>************************************************************************<br>From: Micha Berger <<a>micha@aishdas.org</a>><br>
Subject: Chessed Opportunity<br><br>
I just received the following request via <a>aishdas.org</a> '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,<br>
it's an opportunity for hakaras hatov (recognizing the good) performed by these soldiers.<br>
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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.<br>
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Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br>
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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.<br>
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Name: Stephen Goldenberg<br>
Message:<br>
Shalom,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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It would be nice to receive some Orthodox Seferiom (Talmud, Torah), magazines and kosher food. You can also write to me at ....<br>
my mailing address is,<br>
MSG GOLDENBERG STEPHEN J.<br>
TF MAVERICK OCCP<br>
BAGRAM AIRFIELD<br>
APO, AE 09354<br>************************************************************************<br>
Please say some tehillim for Amichai ben Devorah Steinmetz who went missing in India on 7/22/09 (details here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mao37b" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/mao37b</a>)
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:<br>
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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. <br>
Also please keep in mind a Yeshiva student jailed in Japan:<br>
Ya'akov Yosef ben Reizel<br>
If you need some suggestions for which Tehillim (Psalms) to say, I'd suggest # 20, # 130 & # 121<br>
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If you haven't checked it out yet, please check out <a href="http://www.dovslist.org/" target="_blank">www.dovslist.org</a> - GREAT<br>
site for organizing tehillim and prayers for the sick created by my sister &<br>
her husband in memory of their son Dov.<br>
PLEASE FORWARD THIS LINK AROUND!<br>
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<font size="2">Any names on our mishebayrach list over a month old will be deleted unless<br>
I'm told otherwise. Please say mishebayrach for:<br>
Yonatan ben Malka<br>
Yosef Adam ben Elke<br>
Chaya Rachel bas Devorah Mindel<br>
Aidel Chaya bas Gittel<br>
Binyomin Leib ben Pesha<br>
Nachman Tzvi Hirsch ben Elka<br>
Meir Tzvi ben Mirka<br>
Yisrael ben Dina<br>
Oriya bat Michal<br>
David ben Zohara <br>
</font>
Binyamin ben Blanka<br>
Avigdor Chai Avraham ben Rahchol Leah (8/24)<br>
Devorah bat Chana Bayla (11/4)<br>Yoel ben Bracha Ahuva (11/11)<br>Kayla Rut bat Chaya Rachel (11/11)<br>Tova Rachel bat Malka (11/11)<br>********************<br>
Names added:<br>Eliyahu Shmuel ben Chaya Bina (11/18)<br>Yitzchak ben Mazal (11/18)<br>Raizel bas Chaya Sara (11/18)<br>
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Names removed:<br>
Rina Tziporah bat Orah (10/21)<br>
Yitzchak ben Mazal (10/21)<br>********************<br>
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