Ten Yad Hachnosas Kallah

Every Jewish girl dreams of being a bride…
She imagines the details of her gown, the first time she will put on a sheitel, dancing with her friends and family, the band, the flowers… and then starting her own home. Indeed, the fruition of her dream is no fairytale but her destiny, for Jewish brides are the progenitors of the Jewish nation.

…but there are too many who cannot afford the cost of a wedding…
Unfortunately, there are brides who, r"l, have no parents, whose families can't even put bread on the table, or whose parents stay up nights agonizing over how they are going to marry off their next six daughters, some as close as a year apart.

Dealing with the daunting cost of a wedding and all its details, and setting up a proper Jewish home, can be a crippling burden and responsibility for both the bride and her parents. But like their mothers and their mothers before them, they have an extraordinary commitment to establishing a binyan adei ad and passing along the eternal values of the Jewish people to their children and their children's children in a never-ending golden chain.

That's why Ten Yad Hachnosas Kallah is there to help.
Ten Yad was established to ease a family's burden so that nothing gets in the way of a kallah assuming her exalted role in this chain of Jewish history. In addition to helping with the many financial details of the wedding, a gorgeous wedding gown, sheitel, money toward the band, flowers, and other particulars, and providing the accoutrements to set up a Jewish home with two sets of dishes, cutlery, pots and pans, linens, blankets and towels, Ten Yad makes sure to do whatever it can to ensure that a kallah goes to her chuppah with joy and peace of mind.

The one who gives is blessed…
We are insured great reward for helping to marry off a Jewish bride. Our Sages explain that one who assists in marrying off orphans is credited with giving tzedakah every day of his life. The Talmud tells us that the mitzvah of hachnosas kallah is so great that anyone who participates in it is not only assured a tangible "return on his investment" but protection against sickness and death as well.

And the reason we are here is because of all of you...
The focus of the Ten Yad auction is not the prizes that are offered, although the prizes are fantastic and we hope you win. But you have already won the biggest prize of all by participating in this exalted mitzvah. When you open your hearts to those in need, becoming Hashem's partner in the sacred joining of two souls in the everlasting edifice of marriage, you are blessed b'ruchnius and b'gashmius.

…who have brought the Geulah ever closer.
Tzedakah is considered the ultimate mitzvah, and hachnosas kallah is one of its highest expressions. In the merit of all our good deeds and charitable acts, may we all participate in the ultimate chassunah of Hashem and the Jewish people with Moshiach Tzidkeinu immediately.