Year One · Mitzvos for Shmuly

ובחרת בחייםChoose Life

The gematria of uvacharta bachaim is 686. Together, l'iluy nishmas Rabbi Shmuly, let's reach 686 mitzvos and hachlatos — and then carry it through the first year.

Toward Gimmel Tammuz · the first yahrzeit—
—/ 686

686 to go

When we reach 686, the goal will automatically expand 10× to 6,860 mitzvos and hachlatos for the first year, by Gimmel Tammuz. Why the goal updates

686 mitzvos, 686 people — the same verse, two ways to answer it. Stand with the family

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— mitzvos and hachlatos have been shared in Shmuly’s memory

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