By COLlive reporter
A newly launched effort to memorialize all those whom we have lost with the learning of Shas has swept the globe.
“In less than 8 hours since being launched, Chassidim and Shluchim around the world filled a whole Chalukas Hashas,” Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky, Director of Merkos 302, told COLlive.com.
Rabbi Kotlarsky says they have opened up a second Chaluka in response to requests, which is now filling up quickly.
The initiative was launched on Motzei Shabbos by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad Lubavitch movement.
In a letter sent out to Chassidim around the world, Rabbi Kotlarsky wrote:
We are living in extraordinary times. The disruption of societies across the globe has brought upon all of us untold difficulties in so many areas of our life.
Above all, however, is the immeasurable pain of losing so many members of Anash. The untimely passing of so many Chassidim – some of them in the prime of their lives – has left a deep wound in our collective heart.
In an effort to unite Khal Adas Anash in a common initiative which will memorialize all those who we have lost, we are presenting a Chalukas HaShas, divided by units of four Dafim, which will enable us to collectively complete the entire Shas L’Iluy Nishmos all those who are no longer with us. We hope that you will join us in this endeavor.
We ask that you please go to www.shas.merkos302.com and choose the number of Dafim you can commit to completing by Gimmel Tamuz.
With wishes for complete health and safety for all of Anash and Klal Yisroel and may we merit to witness the fulfillment of Yeshaya’s words בלע המות לנצח ומחה ה’ אלוקים דמעה מעל כל פנים בגאולה האמיתית והשלימה בקרוב ממש עם הרבי בראשנו.
