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Six years ago, Yaakov’s entire world shattered as he became an orphan when both his parents passed away. Now he is getting married. Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein, shlita, the brother-in-law of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, has given a bracha to anyone who helps this orphan get married.
Yaakov’s mother died six years ago suddenly from a heart attack. She was the main breadwinner for the family, while his father sat and learned in kollel. When she passed, there were 2 children left in the house.
Last year, Yaakov’s father was diagnosed with cancer, and rachmana litzlan, he passed away a few months later. Yaakov’s pain from the loss of both of this parents is still raw!
Baruch Hashem, Yaakov is now engaged. The wedding is this Lag B’Omer, only a short time from now. Yaakov has an opportunity to build a bayis ne’eman b’Yisroel, but he and his kallah need your help.
Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein gives an assurance that the chosson’s parents will daven on behalf of anyone who helps their son Yaakov build his bayis.
Please, help this yossom get married with honor and have what he needs to build a true home within Klal Yisroel. And gain from the safeguards that come from the mitzvah of marrying off an orphan.
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lol $40,000? How about having a wedding for under $100 like myself and many of my friends have done during Covid?
at least you had parents there
huh?? 1) not funny.
2) I’m not holding in Corona weddings, but $100 sounds like an exaggeration.
3) To quote it “help this yossom get married with honor and have what he needs to build a true home within Klal Yisroel”- it sounds like they’re trying set this couple up so they can live after they get married.
4) even without all of this your comment is totally not called for.
If you don’t want to give, that’s your chesvon. But zip it.
As your mother would say- if you have nothing nice to say, then don’t say anything.
1. Not trying to be funny.
2. An halachic wedding involves a Rav, witnesses, a bottle of wine, a simple seudah. Many examples of people doing as such. In fact, several articles about whether basic weddings are here to stay. It’s a “thing”.
3. It mentions help with the wedding, and not help with an apartment, food, furniture, or anything related to beyond that night. They have a wedding invitation, a hall reserved, and plan to hold a “regular” wedding which costs thousands of dollars. I’d like to give to a couple with a plan to get training, get a job, or perhaps become involved with chinuch.
4. There are campaigns where many have raised eye brows. Allow the organization or someone to factually prove me otherwise. I’ve given when I was mistaken that someone continued to get rejected from appealing their Renter’s insurance policy for a destroyed home. You haven’t convinced me of anything. All I’m reading into this is a $40k wedding for someone who has little for tomorrow, with few plans for the future.
2. IyH when you marry off your children (and if they are in are near the parshah I hope they should find the right person easily) , then make a very simple wedding, and iyH people will see and it will catch on ,and will end up saving much money and stress. And I will be jealous of your zchus. (I am not being sarcastic, I am 100% serious.)
However don’t be drum on yenims chesvon. (See Ohr Yisroel that someone else’s gashmiyous is my ruchnious) so being that this is the norm we should help a yosom have a respectful wedding.
– not sure where you got this hashkafah from that you can only give tzedakah if.they have a plan . nor do I see anywhere that this couple doesn’t. Did you contact the organizers or are you just making assumptions and taking a risk of spreading rumors to others?
– please show this thread to your rosh kollel and ask him the daas Torah. There are many people doing terrible things and assuming they are 100% correct and no need to ask a shailah.
Hatzlacha rabah! Let’s stop loshon hora and negative comments!
looks like its in Israel. But if I’m wrong its in America, its good to know there is a wonderful organization called AVIHEM helping orphans get married with very big amount towards the cassena its very simple application
thank you for bringing up this oppurtunity
All that’s required for a Halachic wedding is a Ketuba 2 witnesses and a ring. That’s what my parents did and they were married 55 years. He needs to get a job.
um, you need to open up a mussar sefer. You can you just throw out a callous comment like that when you know nothing about the situation, other than he’s a yesom twice.
and how can you compare to someone getting married at 55. they’re not 55, and they are getting married for the 1st time (and iy”H ad meah v’esrim!!), and someone who feels their pain wants to raise money so that they can have a respectable wedding and start a new stage of life on the right foot…. what’s your problem????
Really people, can you spare us your onoas devarim???
(Judith Dvee- I apologize if I sounded harsh. I just happen to know what it feels to read comments that are insensitive about you, and they rub the wrong way to me.)
Please let us try to use our words to build and not to break and hurt,.
We should only have good news!
Hatzlacha to all!!!!
You should read other people’s comments in full. He didn’t mention 55 year olds, he mentioned a wedding from 55 years ago. The days when it was more ruchnyous than gashmyous, the era that one would pay for a wedding which they could possibly afford. It’s actually *you* who is harsh, when people question weddings that cost tens of thousands of dollars, living beyond one’s means.
ok. I stand corrected.
I am all for less expensive weddings.
But don’t be such a tzaddik on someone else’s expense.
The only thing I am arguing with you is that the comment is inappropriate here.
Again don’t trust me, but please ask daas torah if the comment is appropriate or not.
Thank you!