You can feel it—a quiet tension that gnaws at the heart.
Whether you’re educating Hashem’s children, guiding Jews back to Torah, or standing with Klal Yisrael in a moment of need, one obstacle keeps intruding: money.
You’ve crunched the numbers, lost sleep over them, and you know the equation by heart: more funds = more impact. Yet turning arithmetic into reality is anything but simple.
So why is raising money for your holy mission so hard—doesn’t the Almighty want us to succeed?
Rav Noach Weinberg zt”l offered an answer:
"If a father had a rope that you needed to save his drowning child, would he not give it to you?"
The Almighty—our Father—holds every rope and resource, yet the line often seems just out of reach. Why? Because He asks us to carry the rope—to be the fundraisers and visionaries who help His children.
He could complete every holy mission in an instant. Instead, He withholds the rope on purpose.
That struggle—raising each dollar—is where we earn zechus and practice mesirus nefesh. That’s why fundraising often feels so hard, even when it’s for His children.
In Israel’s early years, the Brisker Rav met the Peilim Yad L’Achim board, desperate to rescue Yemenite children from secular kibbutzim.
A member pleaded, “If only we had a million dollars, we could save them all.”
The Rav rose, struck the table, and said:
“Ten million wouldn’t help. But one sliver of mesirus nefesh can change the world.”
You were hand-picked for this test. Hashem could flood you with cash in a heartbeat, yet He asks for your sweat because fundraising is spiritual weight-lifting.
Yes, it hurts. But in that stretch your gadlus is forged.
Step toward the discomfort and turn it into momentum. Your self-sacrifice doesn’t merely collect dollars; it stamps each one with brocha, multiplying its power.
So stop recalculating. Silence the doubt. Act.
Invest every ounce of yourself in the mission and confront whatever stands between you and serving Klal Yisrael and may your mesirus nefesh draw overflowing brocha to all your holy work.
Bi'vracha,
Avraham
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