A year of tranquility and security, a year of peace, unity and brotherhood.
With God’s help, may all of our soldiers and hostages return home quickly and safely.
Today is a day of pride and happiness at the Zoharim Agricultural Youth Village, established by Israel Prize Recipient, Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman for youth at-risk.
Each year, the youth village pupils work in the vineyards around the village, caring for, irrigating and cultivating the vines. Today, the day of hard but satisfying work arrived – the harvesting stage. This is a particularly happy day for the pupils who witness the fruit of their efforts. This is not the end of the process, rather it is the beginning of another stage in the production of delicious quality wine.
Agricultural activity at the youth village is a challenge for the pupils, peaks their interest and it is very creative in nature. Youth village pupils who have just harvested the grapes share a sense of success when they see the product of their concerted efforts.
The wine is wonderful as is their sense of self-worth, responsibility and hope.
So let’s raise a glass and say L’Chaim!
A moment before they entered into battle, Rabbi Grossman arrived to strengthen the IDF soldiers.
There is a belief that messengers of a mitzvah are not harmed, and the Rabbi presented them with a half shekel, wrapped and decorated by pupils of the Migdal Ohr educational institutions. The coin serves as a guarantee for a mitzvah mission, and the soldiers are to donate it to charity upon their return. As long as the soldiers hold the coin, there is Divine protection for them until they can complete the mitzvah given to them by Rabbi Grossman – to return home healthy and whole in body and mind, and to donate the coin to charity themselves.
Come home safely!
In honor of the Hebrew Book Week, we’d like to recommend the fascinating book, “A Life of Mission,” written by Dr. Yehiel Harari, and published by Yediot Aharonot. How did a young man with no educational or management background establish an enormous educational campus, with its thousands of pupils? How did he develop revolutionary educational methods that he successfully implemented at his institutions, which grew in number? How did this Haredi man, who grew up in Meah She’arim, reach the hearts of the discotheque teenagers living in the northern development town? Why do prisoners find him inspirational during their rehabilitation process? Why do senior politicians, banks and large organizations enlist to help his educational and welfare enterprises?
A Life of Mission follows the biography of the Rabbi and his contribution to Israeli society. It also inspires us, its readers, to adopt an awareness of a life of mission, in which a person dedicates his life to his mission in the world, discovering his amazing strengths, and finding that the world will work with him; and suddenly, doors are opened up to him, and his journey becomes clear.
What is it about a life of mission that develops personal healing powers for the private individual and for the entire society? Answers to these questions and many others are found in this wonderful book about Rabbi Grossman, available at book stores at affordable prices, in honor of the book week.
For more than fifty years, Israel Prize Recipient Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman has worked on behalf of children at-risk and disadvantaged populations in Israeli society. Over the years, he established many charitable organizations and educational institutions to provide an opportunity to those who feel despair and experience difficulties, in order to help them leave the circle of distress and successfully integrate into Israeli society. His many years of activity are his life’s work of giving back and acts of kindness, which have made an extraordinary impact on Israeli society and the State of Israel.
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All donations to the associations founded by Rabbi Yitzhak David Grossman are recognized for tax purposes according to Section 46 of the Income Tax Ordinance.
