Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum

To our Jewish brethren

From the pasuk, - the poor shall not cease from within the land, we learn that poverty will arise in every land, even wealthy America, with all of its tragedies and terrible disasters. Therefore, a group of avreichim were aroused to form the organization Ezras Yisroel, to relieve and support the suffering from their despair, and to sustain them. Particularly now, in the days of Purim, it is the time of matanos l'evyonim, of giving gifts to the poor.

Therefore I ask of our Jewish brethren that they do the - the blessing, that they greet the gabbaei tzedakah with friendliness and generosity, and in this zechus, they will merit that Hashem will do - and He will protect us from every wound and illness. May we merit miracles and wonders and much good, as in the days of Mordechai and Esther.

Rabbi Shmuel Bernbaum