GATE TO HEAVEN
| MAGAZINE FEATURE | aLL CREDIT GOES TO ARYEH EHRLICH AND THE MISHPACHA By Aryeh Ehrlich | APRIL 28, 2015 We were given an exalted task in this world, one that affects the worlds above us. When we do things in a Kabbalistic way, our actions look the same, but our intents are much deeper. A s I walk into a little room on the first floor of Yeshivas Shaar Hashamayim on this cool Jerusalem night, the first thing I hear is the sound of jangling coins. Looking around, I spot Rosh Yeshivah Rav Reuven Gross, who has invited me to enter this hundred-year-old sanctuary of Kabbalah; he’s surrounded by a minyan of elderly men, sitting in utter silence as they wait for him to continue. Rav Gross is now pronouncing various combinations of Divine Names to the accompaniment of those rattling silver coins — American silver dollars minted in the 1960s — putting down a coin for each Name. First are the Names of judgment, then the Names of mercy, and finally th...