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Protection for you All Year

8/6/5778 22.03.2018

Insurance ?

Insurance is expensive.

Yes, we are talking about life insurance. It doesn’t even insure your life, obviously. It merely provides some financial “security” to the surviving family members.

But people pony up insurance premiums month after month, year after year. They pay for decades.

So how much does it cost to insure life itself?

Nothing, really, because you can get it as an added benefit on top of something that you are already paying.

Might be a good deal. Especially if the insurance is provided by an established party, and the agent is reliable and honest.

What do you have to do, to get something for nothing? And who is standing behind the offer?

A Policy Written In Heaven

Rav Shimshon of Ostropoli was one of those supremely holy Torah luminaries who merited learning from an angel who came to him regularly to teach himSodosHatorah. R. Yosef Caro, the Beis Yosef, was also taught by a heavenly messenger, but right now we are talking about R. Shimshon of Ostropoli.

The angel who came to R. Shimshon taught him the secrets of the Ge’ulahas expressed in the EserMakkos.

And how do the EserMakkosexpress the secrets of the Ge’ulah?

That is exactly what Iggeres R. Shimshon comes to explain, and the malachwho revealed this Iggeres to R. Shimshon told him two things about it:

1Read it on Erev Pesach.

2 Whoever studies its secrets is guaranteed a year of great success in his endeavors, and will be saved all year long from all kinds of mishaps and bad occurrences.

Should you take this promise seriously?

MoreinuHaravHagaonSarHatorah Chaim Kanievskyshlitatakes it seriously, since it is stated in reliable Torah sources, and since reading R. Shimshon’s Iggeres is a well knownminhagthat has been around for generations.

So Rav Chaim shlita takes time out on Erev Pesach – which is anyways a pretty busy day – to study Iggeres R. Shimshon.

No Time

“There is always time for something important.”

But what if you have so many important things to do, and all on one short day??

You turn to Rav Chaim, of course. He always has time for important things, even on Erev Pesach.

The streets are full of the pungent smell of burning chametz, people are scrubbing thefloor, checking the Pesach medicine list, doing a million last-minute preparations, trying to remember that thing they forgot to buy, and there is no time for anything else.

ButRav Chaim is sitting there calmly in his room, intently studying Iggeres R. Shimshon.

The Point

So the point is very simple. You anyways give kimchad’Pischamoney every year. We all give tzedakah before Pesach, because that’s what Jews do.

But if you go with the R. Shimshon insurance plan, then you get extra benefits: a year of great success in your endeavors, and you will be saved all year long from all kinds of mishaps and bad occurrences.

Not a bad deal at all.

Because Rav Chaim doesn’t just study the Iggeresfor himself. He does it on behalf of all of Vaad Harabbanim’s donors, and he has their list of names and prayer requests sitting right there on his table, so he can daven for them when he finishes.

I don’t think any more need be said. This is the real thing, the real insurance, the real mitzvah!

The effects of all your Pesach cleaning will pretty much fade away over the course of the coming months. ButIggeres R. Shimshon won’t. It keeps on working for you, all year long.

So send in your names and your generous donation now.

So send in your names and your generous donation now.