My hope was - and is - to be able to help many kallos who come from poor families that cannot afford to marry them off. Happily, people are getting married no matter what. Less happily, their parents have to go into debt that is a bottomless pit from which they cannot extricate themselves. So please help the present kallah I am collecting for and many more to come.
I promise you, you won't lose.
If you have one hundred dollars and give 10 dollars to tzedaka, how much are you left with?
10 dollars.
Rebbetzin Machlis ע"ה
Here is the link for those who want the zchus. [Note: Much of the sum listed there was from the previous mitzva of publishing the sefer "נגילה ונשמחה" so very little has been raised for the kallah. Marrying off a child with 2 thousand dollars worked back in the early 1900's....:-). Save a Jew from a lifetime of paying debts that he has no way of covering himself. Help start a new Jewish family:-)].
Rav Chaim Kreiswurth [the great gaon and Rov of Antwerp] was once sick and went to the Steipler for a bracha. The Steipler asked him why the mishna says that we are rewarded in this world and the next for bikkur cholim, hachnosos kalla and halvayas mames - visting the ill, helping a couple get married and attending a funeral. It would have been more appropriate to place the mitzva of attending a funeral immediately after the mitzva of visiting the ill. Why does the mishna "interrupt" with the mitzva of helping a couple get married?
Answered the Steipler: If a person want to push away death then the best way is to involve himself in the mitzva of helping couples get married....
Rav Kreiswurth took his holy words to heart and spent the next many years of his life giving financial aid to young married couples in need.
I thank my beloved friends who have given in the past. May Hashem help you in all of your endeavors.
