Shabbat "These are the Journeys of the Children of Israel..." The End of the

This coming Shabbat, Parshat Masei 5776, will likely be the end of the long exile of our teacher, the Rav shlit"a, since he left the Holy Land in Adar 5773. After a terrible and arduous exile, filled with wanderings, persecutions, and slander in the difficult exile—Switzerland, Miami, Morocco, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Holland, and back to South Africa, where he was even imprisoned in a jail under harsh conditions for 103 days without medical care—our teacher, the Rav shlit"a, returned to the Land of Israel. However, even here, the series of sufferings he took upon himself to save the people of Israel from harsh decrees has not yet ended. Even here, with the wicked callousness of the rule of law, he was placed under arrest and imprisoned like the lowest of criminals.

His students and followers accompanied him at every stage from the moment of his return to the country by organizing mass prayers at every legal hearing where the Rav appeared, and simultaneously by establishing a tent near the place of his incarceration.

The protest tent was initially established by the "The People are with the Tzaddik" activity and advocacy headquarters, operating on behalf of the "Shuvu Banim International" organization, near the Nitzan detention center in Ramla immediately upon the Rav's return to the country, and later moved near the gates of Be'er Sheva prison, where our teacher, the Rav shlit"a, is currently located. The tent was established to protest the desecration of the honor of the Torah being carried out by the law enforcement system in the State of Israel, which insists on keeping our teacher, the Rav shlit"a, in detention for over two weeks already, based on a ridiculous, baseless, and delusional reason of the Rav being a flight risk. This is despite the fact that the Rav left the country with his passport legally and returned to the country of his own volition due to his desire to exhaust the judicial process to the end. Even simple logic does not support the distorted opinions of the police and the prosecution, who do not contend with the simple calculation that asks, "Why would a person risk the crime of fleeing from a legal process, which carries a prison sentence of several years, in order to save himself from an indictment for offenses of which he is suspected, for which even if he were convicted of all of them, his punishment would not be more than 4 months of community service?"

The tent was also established to provide a response to a large group of avreichim and young men who have been accompanying the Rav closely from the moment he left the country to every place he stayed during this long period. Despite the difficult conditions, there is a significant public of the Rav's students and followers who are not willing to leave him anywhere and to be by his side at all times as much as possible according to the existing restrictions. Specifically, our teacher, the Rav shlit"a, explicitly instructed that if he were to remain in detention for more than two weeks, tents should be set up and caravans brought in order to stay near him wherever he may be.

The recording can be heard here:

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Likewise, the "Tzaddik HaEmet of the Generation" Yeshiva was established in the tent, where nearly 60 avreichim and young men study throughout all hours of the day, until the swift release of the Rav, with the help of Hashem, next Wednesday.

As part of the Yeshiva's activities, a "Breslov Thursday Night" will take place on Thursday night, Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av, during which classes will be given throughout the night by Breslov rabbis and mashpi'im. Afterwards, a Vatikin prayer will take place with songs and melodies in the style of the Yeshiva. Everyone is invited.

Likewise, before the start of the classes, a Rosh Chodesh meal will take place at the location at 9:00 PM after the Maariv prayer.

In preparation for the coming Shabbat, a large group of the Rav's followers is organizing to stay in the tent, and naturally, the expenses are high. We ask for the public's help with donations, both for the food, which amounts to approximately 3,000 NIS, and for the ongoing operational expenses of the tent and the Yeshiva at the location (fuel for the generator, subsidizing buses, etc.), which also amount to nearly 4,000 NIS.

You can donate through the website by clicking here or by calling the operations officer, Aharon Schwartz, on his personal mobile at 0533-155-313.

Thanks in advance to all who love the Tzaddik.

Ongoing updates regarding the activity can be heard at any time on the Shuvu Banim line:

02-991-71-73

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