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It's time to collect Diamonds!! Grab this HUGE Mitzvah - Don't miss out!!

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Rabbi Alon Anava

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Shalom Aleichem everyone. I hope you're doing amazing wherever you are and I really hope you are taking advantage of the month of Elul focusing on your teshuvah and preparing yourself the right way to Rosh Hashanah. I hope you joined us on the teshuvah journey, teshuvah 26, and you're following the classes and following the instructions. And if you haven't, it's never too late to join. You can find all these videos on my YouTube channel under the live channel under the live tab or on my website at smooth.org {forward slash} teshuvah-26. All the videos are there. Even if you came late, you can still join. And I really hope you are really focusing on your teshuvah throughout Elul. Next week, I'm arriving in Miami and I'm going to have a few lectures in Miami so you can come and see me in person. And these lectures will be live broadcast on my YouTube channel. So, watch out for the notifications about it. And of course, these lectures are all we're going to be focusing on many, many different topics, amazing topics about Elul and how to better ourselves, how to prepare to to Rosh Hashanah, how to make sure that next year is going to be a blessed year full of success and happiness. So, I hope you can join me if if not in person, then live. And of course, these lectures will be recorded and posted on my YouTube. And I really hope that you are following the teshuvah journey that we set for us through the month of Elul. I know thousands of people are following and we get amazing, amazing feedback. So, you can definitely check it out on smooth.org {forward slash} teshuvah-26. And the the classes that the that I do, they go live. So, I really hope you are following it. And if you haven't, then in one of the last classes, we were learning that on Elul, we need to focus on three things, three major things that we need to focus on that eventually on Yom Kippur, we're going to be screaming them. The first one was is tfilah, is teshuvah, tfilah, u'tzedakah. Ma'avirin et ro'a ha'gzeirah. Repentance, prayer, and charity remove the evil of the decree. That's what we're going to be screaming on Yom Kippur when we want to Hashem to forgive us and to bless us with an amazing amazing year. So, in the month of Elul, we have to do all three. So, teshuvah, that's what we're doing during the entire month of Elul. We're in the teshuvah journey that we started. We're learning how to do teshuvah, how to focus on teshuvah, how to set goals, and set uh uh not only goals, but to to have a vision of where I want to reach. I'm working on my teshuvah. The second one is t'filah, it's prayer. And of course, we're increasing in the month of Elul in prayers and tehillim and many other things and that sort of course, including also learning Torah. And the last one is tzedakah, is charity. That we have to increase in the month of Elul in a lot of acts of kindness and a lot of charity. So, today I have a special request. I'm reaching out because a few weeks ago, we started raising money for three weddings, for three orphans in Israel. And since then, baruch Hashem, we're able to raise exactly 2/3 of our goal. Our goal is $30,000, $10,000 per wedding. And up until now, we raised exactly a little bit over 20,000. So, we're missing $10,000 to make to cover the third wedding. One of the weddings was already last week. And the next weddings are coming, b'ezrat Hashem. And uh I wanted to share with you the opportunity because what a huge opportunity on the month of Elul when we need to increase in charity, and we want to add as much as mitzvot and as much as acts of kindness to to our resume before we're coming to Rosh Hashanah. So, what a wonderful opportunity to grab this powerful mitzvah of helping these orphans in Eretz Israel get married with the Oshumri Torah and mitzvot, Shumrei Shabbat. And it's not a big amount, and you can participate in a huge huge huge mitzvah. You're coming into the month of Tishrei, you're coming into Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur with a massive massive mitzvah. And uh of course, to make it more interesting, and since we want to raise the money as fast as possible, then we're offering a few uh amazing gifts for the ones who want to pledge and and donate a thousand dollars, uh then we're offering three wines of my own wine from Israel that we're going to ship to you if you live in Israel or the United States. You will get an hour, a meeting, a face-to-face meeting with me or either through the phone or Zoom. The bride and groom are going to pray for you on the day of the wedding and mention names. And we have a few other goodies uh uh that you can find on our page. But for the ones of you who want to really grab an amazing amazing mitzvah before Rosh Hashanah, this is the mitzvah you want to grab. And even if you can't do the thousand dollars in one shot, then you can pledge for the thousand dollars and do it in payments in ten bit payments of a hundred a hundred for ten months or whatever you want. But I highly recommend to grab this mitzvah. Now, if you can't afford such an amount, then any amount that you can give will be amazing. You can submit your names, and I will pray on your behalf for whatever you need, parnassah, well-being, shalom bayit. And and visit the page at smudat.org/weddings. The link is underneath this video where you'll see the options where you can donate. But participate today. Join us. It's a huge mitzvah that you can add to your to your bag of mitzvot to enter this coming year. The mitzvah of tzedakah, the mitzvah of of of hachnasat kallah. It's not a big amount. We only need if we have 10 uh people who will pledge the thousand, that's it. Within an hour, we finish the campaign, we have the money, we pass it on, and and we're done. But, I I recommend and and and urge everybody participate. Even if you don't have much, even if you have $5, just participate so you can have a share in this huge huge mitzvah right before Rosh Hashanah. So, the links are underneath these videos. Go to the page, submit your donation. Look at the the gifts that we're offering. I'm offering that because that's how much I want to finish with it and help these couples, and and and l'zecher to give the merits to everyone who wants to participate in this huge mitzvah. Share this video. Share it with your loved ones. And grab this huge mitzvah before you're walking into Rosh Hashanah because we need We need as many many mitzvot to do in the month of Elul. And in the month of Elul, we increase in prayer, we increase in in in teshuvah, but we have to increase in tzedakah, and that's an unbelievable opportunity. And b'ezrat Hashem, with that merit, with that help, that charity, may Hashem bless you with an amazing year full of happiness and success and strong health and parnassah and livelihood and peace in your heart and love to Hashem, and may you grow spiritually and physically, and your entire family should be protected, and may Hashem bless you in everything that you need in the merit of this this mitzvah. Hashem should give you everything that your heart desires, protect you wherever you are, bless you in the next coming year with unbelievable shefa of kindness and mercy, and may you find your goal, find your purpose, walk on the path that you need to walk on, and b'ezrat Hashem, may you and your family have a shanah tovah and Gmar Chatima Tova. And may may we all be blessed with having the merit to see the coming of Mashiach very soon Hashem. Thank you so much for your support. Please share this video. Links are underneath this video and don't miss out on this huge huge huge mitzvah.