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| DATE | 2025-09-09 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] [ Docs ] [Barcans] Seeing the family
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On Sun, Sep 07, 2025 at 01:13:11AM -0400, Ruben Safir via Docs wrote:
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/amsterdam.html#Rijks
>
> I will be making a trip soon to see the family in G'vat Shmuel and to be
> in Tzfat. The war is still raging, so I expect to run into a country
> that is raw and with many open emotion wounds, and a lot of poverty.
>
> I will be stopping on my way in to Amsterdam. I find a direct flight
> more than I can handle so I stop in Europe and that usually means
> Amsterdam. NOt for the Borthels and the drugs, but for the Jewish
> history and the Art.
>
> The Dutch Museums and heritage is quite astonishing, and its Jewish
> footprint is enormous.
>
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/amsterdam.html#Rijks
>
> Have a look at previous trips.
>
> I tend to give Tzadakah when I get to Tzfat. It is in the north and
> was on the front line with Hezbullah. The economy, which is barely held
> up by foreign tourism and art prodcution, has been battered. I expect
> demands to be more than the usual. On Simchas Torah/Shemini Eztzerts,
> we have a community Kiddush and we've provided for a succah. A decent
> chunk of the inheritence has been invested in this: See
>
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/tzfat.html
> http://images.mrbrklyn.com/2023_israel_amst_purim/
> http://images.mrbrklyn.com/2022_israel/
> http://images.mrbrklyn.com/2022_israel/IMG_1231.JPG?width=1024
>
> This is my spiritual center when in Tzfat... the Kosov Synagaguge in the
> old city
>
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/kosov.html
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/images/2022_israel/MVI_1199.MP4
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/images/2022_israel/MVI_1200.MP4
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/images/2022_israel/kikar2.png
>
> I have so much raw material from these trips they are hard to keep up
> with.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mrbrklyn+Tzfat
> some videos on youtube..
>
> My mothers Yitziet in on September 11th this year (18 Elul)
> Itka's birthday is on the Nineth - Happy Birthday Itka!!!
>
> If anyone wants to donate funds for the recovery and to feed the people
> in Tzfat in memory of my Mother, Sherry Iris Israeloff email Rabbi Moshe
> Tuvia mt0527698697-at-gmail.com
>
> His online link for Tzdakah is here ==>
> https://www.matara.pro/nedarimplus/online/?S=dFBO
>
> If you want to put money in my hands to give in Tzfat, contact me. I've
> put my hard earned cash into these peoples hands, as cases are needed,
> and help to build resources. A simple thing like replacing the community
> refigerator has been very helpful to folks, or hiring help to build a
> succah for people that are ill from cancer, or helping a women who is a
> difficult marriage scrap by for Shabbat meals...
>
> I don't list these things to show that I am in any way remarkeble, I am
> certainly not, but just to encourage people to give, if posible, direct
> charity, hand to hand in Tzfat and much of the rest of Israel.
>
> We have come out of the Covid crisis and the world seems quite crazy.
> It is, and nowhere more so than in Israel. We are suffering with
> inflation and an uncertain economic, not to mention political, future.
> We should try to stick together, like an extended family.
>
> Reuvain
>
>
>
> --
> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com
> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
>
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> Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
> but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
>
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