Pesach with B'Ahavat Yisrael

Pesach 5771 / Passover 2011

Fact: Israel's economy is one of the strongest in the world today.
Fact: Israel's poverty rate is amongst the highest in the Western world!

A Pesach Story that is Very Relevant to this Day:

Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik of Brisk was

known as not only a very wise man, but
also as a very sympathetic and generous 

man.  One day before Pesach, a man came
to his house to ask a question.  He asked 

 the rabbi if a person could fulfill
the obligation of drinking the four glasses

at the Seder with milk.  The rabbi
asked the man if he was ill.  The man told

him that he was healthy but wine was
too expensive this year for him to afford. 

The rabbi took out 25 rubles and the
man was proud and didn't want to accept it. 

"I didn't come for charity.  I came
to ask a question."  The rabbi told him to 

consider it a loan, only to be paid
back when G-d helps him.

After the man left, the rebbetzin (rabbi's wife

) asked why he gave the man 25
rubles when 2 or 3 rubles would be enough

for wine.  The rabbi said, "If he ate
meat then he wouldn't be able to drink 

the milk, therefore he didn't have enough
money for meat, all that is necessary for Pesach."

In Israel today, for a myriad of reasons, 

there are many Jewish families who are
not following the strong Israeli economic 

trend.  They are poor.

In some past years, we prepared Passover

packages exclusively for Sderot; in the
Intifada years, we did many holiday 

packages for the Shomron, and so on.  This
year, we are setting up a packing facility 

near our office in the Lower Galilee
and we will deliver to needy families 

from our list in Tiberias, the Shomron,
and Sderot as well.

In tribute to the way of the saintly 

Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik of Brisk, we
will not give them only wine and matzo. 

We will give them with kavod or honor. 
Every family receiving a Passover food 

package from B'Ahavat Yisrael will be
getting enough of the essentials including 

fish and meat as not to have to ask
the milk instead of wine question.

Please donate one or more of the packages 

below, to be delivered prior to
Pesach:

$180 – SMALL FAMILY PASSOVER PACKAGE
4 bottles of wine, 1 box of matzo, 

 1 beef pot roast, 3 chickens, 1 lb. of
chopped meat, 2 lbs. of fish fillet, 

2 canned tuna, 1 salami, 1 lb. of hot dogs,
2 bottles of vegetable oil, 1 kg. of

sugar, 1 kg. of salt, 2 packages of matzo
meal, 1 pack of macaroon cookies, 

coffee, tea, 1 1/2 lbs. of fresh carrots, 5
lbs. of potatoes, 3 lbs. of sweet 

potatoes, 1 head of lettuce, 2 lbs. of onions,
6 fresh apples, 5 fresh lemons,

6 fresh oranges, and 2 canned fruit

$360 – LARGE FAMILY PASSOVER PACKAGE
8 bottles of wine, 2 boxes of matzo, 

2 beef pot roasts, 8 chickens, 3 lbs. of
chopped meat, 4 lbs. of fish fillet,

5 canned tuna, 1 jumbo salami, 1 family
pack of hot dogs, 6 bottles of vegetable

oil, 2 kgs. of sugar, 2 kgs. of salt, 3
packages of matzo meal, 2 packs of 

macaroon cookies, coffee, tea, 3 lbs. of
fresh carrots, 10 lbs. of potatoes, 

5 lbs. of sweet potatoes, 3 heads of
lettuce, 6 lbs. of onions, 20 fresh

apples, 10 fresh lemons, 20 fresh oranges,
and 4 canned fruit

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