The World’s Largest Sukkah Feeding Thousands

On Erev Yom Kippur, as we prepare to ask Hashem for everything we need in the coming year, there is still time to create a powerful keli for those brachos: feed the Rebbe’s guests.

On Erev Yom Kippur, as we prepare to ask Hashem for everything we need in the coming year, there is still time to create a powerful keli for those brachos: feed the Rebbe’s guests.

There are certain moments in the year when the heart is simply more open.

Erev Yom Kippur is one of them.

In a few short hours, we will put aside the distractions of everyday life. We will enter shul, stand before Hashem, and begin Kol Nidrei.

And every one of us will be carrying something into that room.

A child who needs a yeshuah.

A shidduch.
Health.
Parnasa.
Shalom bayis.
Nachas.
A worry we have told no one about.

A tefillah we have whispered hundreds of times.

We will ask Hashem to look at us with rachamim and say: Please, give me. Please, help me. Please, open the gates.

But before we ask Hashem to open His hand to us, we have an extraordinary opportunity to open our hand to another Yid.

ותשובה ותפלה וצדקה מעבירין את רע הגזרה.
Teshuvah. Tefillah. Tzedakah.
We are preparing for the tefillah.
We are preparing for the teshuvah.
Now is our opportunity for the tzedakah.
Throughout Tishrei, thousands of the Rebbe’s guests arrive in Crown Heights. They come from across the world to spend these precious days in the Rebbe’s daled amos.
And at The Rebbe’s Kich at Rubashkin’s, the doors are open.

The pots are cooking. The tables are being filled. Meal after meal is being prepared so that a Yid who came to the Rebbe should have somewhere to eat and somewhere to feel at home.
Behind every plate is food that had to be purchased.
Behind every full table are enormous expenses.
Behind every guest who sits down to eat is someone who made it possible.
That someone can be you.

Maybe you cannot stand in the kitchen preparing hundreds of meals.
Maybe you cannot personally welcome every orch.
But your tzedakah can.
Your donation can become another chicken on a plate.
Another tray coming out of the kitchen.
Another table filled with food.

Another Yid who walks in hungry and walks out feeling cared for.
Another one of the Rebbe’s guests who knows: I have a place here.
And perhaps there is something especially powerful about doing this now.
On Yom Kippur we will ask Hashem not to measure us only by what we deserve.
We ask for compassion.
We ask for generosity.
We ask Him to look beyond the numbers and shower us with goodness simply because we are His children.
Can we do the same for another Yid?
Can we give a little more than is comfortable?
Can we look beyond what we planned to give and say, “Hashem, today I am opening my hand. Please open Yours”?
We are coming before Hashem with big tefillos.

Let us make a big keli.
Give for your children.
Give for your health.
Give for your parnasa.
Give for the bracha you are desperately waiting for.
Give because another Yid needs you.
Give because these are the Rebbe’s guests.
Give because on Erev Yom Kippur, when every one of us is asking Hashem for rachamim, there may be no more appropriate time to show rachamim to someone else.
Whether your contribution is large or small, be part of the Rebbe’s Kich.
Before you close your wallet and head to Kol Nidrei, do one more mitzvah.
One more act of Ahavas Yisroel.
One more act of hiskashrus.
One more act of tzedakah to carry with you into the holiest day of the year.
And when you stand before Hashem and ask Him to give generously to you and your family, you will know that only hours earlier, you gave generously to His children.

May this tzedakah be a powerful zechus for every donor and their family, for a Gmar Chasima Tova, a year of revealed brachos, health, children, shidduchim, parnasa b’harchava, nachas, simcha, and yeshuos beyond what we could imagine.

And may we merit the greatest bracha of all—the immediate Geulah Shleimah, when we will celebrate together in Yerushalayim with Moshiach Tzidkeinu.
Don’t wait until after Yom Kippur. The opportunity is now.

🔗 Contribute to The Rebbe’s Kich:
https://charidy.com/rubashkin

Open your hand today. And ask Hashem to open the gates.

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