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JO1988-V21-N06.Pdf ... to join the broadest coalition of Orthodox Jews, headed by eminent Torah authorities, for a four-day Torah experience at the National Convention of Agudath Israel of America This year, at a beautiful new location: ][ THE PARSIPPANY HILTON Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey (Less than one hour's drive from New York City) Thursday through Sunday November 24-27, 1988 \J"Y.l\!Jn 1?tJ'.J n'-1\J To: Agudath Israel of America, 84 William St., N.Y.C. 10038 Please reserve accommodations .for persons to Check type of accommodations requested. (Give first the 66th National Convention of Agudath Israel of and second choice.) All rates are for double occupancy. America, Thursday through Sunday, November 24- If accommodation requested is not available, next 27, 1988 at the Parsippany Hilton, Parsippany-Troy category will be assigned. Hills, New Jersey. Rates Per Person (For 4 Days, 3 Nights) NAME----------------- 0 Standard 0 Preferred D Superior 0 Deluxe ADDRESS--~------------- $289 $319 $.349 $399 CITY _____ $TATE ___ z1p ________ 0 Single Occupancy {Limited) $499 TELEPHONE: Day (_) ____ Evening { _) ____ 0 Wednesday evening arrival at special rate of $75 $100 Per Person Deposit Required. Please Enclose. per person (includes buffet dinner Wednesday (f?.esrrvalions ar/.' sub;ect to confirmatiorf.) evening & Thursday breakfast). I am enclosing: D Please send information regarding day camp and $ _____ 0 Deposit $100 per person: children's rates. 5749 Membership Dues: $ -~2~5-=.o-'-o __ $ _____ Please _note that 15°J'o will be added to the bill to cover all gratuities. TOTAL ENCLOSED It will also include the registration fee and delegate kit. Not fist a cheese, a traOition ... :. Haolam, the most trusted name in Cholov Yisroc! Kosher Cheese. ~ A reputation earned through 25 years of scrupulous devotion to quality t and kashruth. With 12 delicious varieties. Under the strict Rabbinical "· supervision of K'hal Adas Jeshurun, N.Y. Haolam,atraditionyou'llenjoykeeping. Kosher for Passover Haol ·· Cholov Yisroel THUKM"O'WO"O"'""co·'"·"·WMK." ~m. The Thurm Families wish Klal Yisroel a 11;!1'\.? 112'1J1tt111;J1J1;J If it has no cholesterol, a better.­ than-butter flavor, and a reputation for kashruth you can trust ... It has to be the new, improved parve Migdal unsalted margarine r.:;~ Under the strict Rabbinical supervision of K'hal AdasJeshurun, N.Y. THURM BROS., WORLD CHEESE CO., INC., N.Y. I was stunned, shocked by what this young woman uttered. ain she spoke ... "Not only do I not have any food in the house, I don't even have a Shekel to buy milk for the.baby's lunch." The desperation and panic in her voice pierced my heart. "People in the States don't believe it", the Rabbi said. Can I be sitting here in twentieth century Jerusalem lis· "There are hundreds of American families here reduced tening to an American woman? to various levels of poverty. Each has his own story of mis­ fortune, illness, unemployment or just being a struggling Obviously, Rabbi Leib Sternlicht, the director of Kole! Kole! family or a poor senior citizen whose Social Security America in Israel, had heard these words many times be­ isn't enough anymore." fore. As I sat outside his office, the door opened and I couldn't help overhearing the end of the conversation. "They come here to Kole! America in despair because they don't know where to go for assistance and are too ')\g we discussed", he told her, "your regular family sti­ embarrassed to take help until they're penniless. Kole! pend will begin shortly. Now I'll issue you an emergency America provides for these unfortunate Jews, some tem­ allotment for the next couple of days." A few moments porarily, some long-term and all for the holiday seasons of later, the lady left with a hand full of Shekel notes and a Rosh Hashanah-Succos and Pesach. calmer look on her face. Excerpted from a letter by a member of the American Board of Directors of Kolel America who recently visited lsraeL Hundreds OfAmerican Families Are Depending On Us AND YOU This Rosh Hashanah-Succos Season. We proclaim it a sacred obligation upon every Jew to support Kole! America most generously. -Honorary Presidium­ Rabbi Moshe Feinstein* Rabbi Yaacov Kamenetsky * Rabbi Avrahom Pam Rabbi Yaacov Ruderman* Rabbi Chaim P. Scbeinberg Rabbi Elya Svei Send Your Generous Donation Today And Reap The Written Vow Of Our Founder, Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin, ZT'L, The Brisker Rav: "l will be a Heavenly Advocate interceding for the supporters of Kole! America. They surely shall be inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life." 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Yet, examining the Ram­ A PROLOGUE TO TESHUVA bam, both in Mishna Torah and in the Sefer Hamitzvos, one Is struck ne of the wonders of the by the fact that It is viduy that creation is teshuva-the appears to be the mitzva itself, with Oability for a sinner to repent the introspective aspects of the and atone for his evil actions, and, teshuva-process merely leading up In effect, clean his slate as If he had to the viduy (see Rambam Hilchos never committed the sins. And one Teshuva 1-1. 2-2, 2-3). of the supreme kindnesses of the A previous article (''Why Con­ Creator is His designation of the fess?", JO Sept '79) pointed out the forty days of Ellul-through-Yom Kip­ value of viduy as a means of forcing pur as the season of teshuva, when upon the sinner an awareness of his our efforts to return are especially sins. But there must also be a deeper facilitated and meet with unusual meaning to viduy, for the Mishna success. resolve to never again repeat the of­ (Sanhedrin, 43b) states that all Of the three components of te­ fense-viduy would seem to be the transgressors that were condemned shuva-remorse over the wrong least difficult to perform. We have to death were told to confess as a committed, viduy (confession), and all been misvadeh-we have all con­ means for gaining a portion in the fessed our sins-many more times World-to-Come.
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