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Pidyon Nefesh for Rosh Hashanah

A great merit for the Day of Judgment!

An opportunity to bring about salvation before Rosh Hashanah

This is your opportunity before Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Linker, shlita, will perform a special Pidyon Nefesh Tikun, in preparation for the Day of Judgment!

To sweeten the judgments, to open the gates of mercy, and to pray on your behalf and your family’s behalf for a good and sweet new year.

Pidyon Nefesh per person

180 $

You may submit names after payment of the Pidyon Nefesh.
May this great merit stand for you for a year of health, livelihood, and spiritual and material abundance. May you be inscribed and sealed for good!

The Source of the Mitzvah

The power of the righteous: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev

Rosh Hashanah is the Day of Judgment for the entire world, the time when a person’s life for the coming year is determined: livelihood, health, success, and all the important things in one’s life. In order to arrive at this great day in a state of spiritual purity and proper preparation, the great tzaddikim, led by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, emphasize the virtue of Pidyon Nefesh as a wondrous way to sweeten the judgments and attain mercy and heavenly abundance.

What is Pidyon Nefesh?

Pidyon Nefesh is a powerful spiritual act in which a person’s name and their mother’s name are given to a tzaddik together with a sum of money representing the forces of the person’s soul. The tzaddik, through his spiritual power, elevates the intention of the redemption to the roots of the soul, thereby working to sweeten the judgments, transform harsh decrees into mercy, and open the gates of abundance and blessing for the coming year.

Rabbi Nachman teaches that Rosh Hashanah is a time of absolute judgment, and therefore it is important to arrive at it as prepared as possible

  • The power of the tzaddik: Rabbi Nachman emphasized that the righteous are messengers of God, capable of acting in the higher worlds on behalf of a person. In Pidyon Nefesh, the tzaddik “takes” the judgments hovering over a person and sweetens them through prayer and spiritual action.
  • Sweetening of judgments: Pidyon Nefesh is a means of rectifying a person’s soul and purifying their path toward the new year.

חיבור לקדושה: על פי רבי נחמן, הקשר לצדיק, ובעיקר בראש השנה, הוא סוד עצום שמביא לאדם ברכה ושמירה לכל השנה.

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, the Defender of Israel, dedicated his life to finding merits for the Jewish people and sweetening the judgments upon them:

  • Charity as a spiritual force: Rabbi Levi Yitzchak saw charity and Pidyon Nefesh as an act that draws a person closer to heavenly mercy and helps transform every decree into good.
  • Advocacy and prayer: In Pidyon Nefesh, the tzaddik acts as the person’s advocate — he pleads for mercy and salvation on their behalf in the higher worlds, out of immense love for every Jew.

Spiritual preparation for Rosh Hashanah: Rabbi Levi Yitzchak believed that proper preparation for the Day of Judgment includes not only repentance and prayer, but also spiritual acts capable of sweetening the judgments and drawing a person closer to the infinite light.

Both Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev saw Pidyon Nefesh as an act that is entirely merit and rectification:

  • Release from the burden of judgment: The Pidyon sweetens the judgments hovering over a person, transforming the Day of Judgment into a day of mercy.
  • Opening the gates of abundance: The Pidyon brings spiritual and material abundance, blessing in the home and family, and protection from harsh decrees.
  • Connection to the tzaddikim: This act connects a person to the powers of the righteous, who act on their behalf in this world and in the higher worlds.

Donate Now take part in the mitzvah of Pidyon Nefesh!

Here you can donate and help us continue this holy and important tradition. Together we can make a difference and bring good lives and peace to each and every one.





Pidyon Nefesh per person

180 $

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Bank Account for Donations

Mizrahi Tefahot Bank | Account Number: 289048 | Branch: 434 | Tax ID: 580666139

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IL790204340000000289048 | Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd | Branch 434 | 35 Herzl St. Rehovot

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