Thursday July 9
We had a beautiful fifth-to-last-day here. Eidah Daled left super early for the traditional Eidah daled Post-color war White water rafting trip 🙂 Meanwhile for everyone else today was an awesome day of peulot as campers got back into the routine of a “regular” day of camp after two days of color war. We continued […]
Wednesday July 8- Color War Day 2
The second day of color was intense – our chanichim were in it to win it! Shiur on color war focuses on the team names. So while yesterday’s shiur focused on team Irgun, today’s shiur was about team Haganah. The campers grappled with the question of moral standards in the military by looking at different […]
Tuesday July 7- Color War Day 1
Color war is in full swing with team Irgun vs. team Hagana!!! Kima was bright and early this morning at 7 am. Somehow everyone was op and at ’em fairly quickly. Whereas usually each eidah has mifkad on their own before tefilah, on the Color War days the whole camp meets for mifkad next to […]
Monday July 6
Kima this morning was a bit later than usual (8:00 am), giving everyone a chance to catch up on some sleep after last night’s unforgettable night Tochnit. Campers were also treated to a fan-favorite breakfast: Cinnamon “Stuff”—always a guaranteed way to start the day off right! In shiur, campers continued this week’s exploration of the […]
Sunday July 5 – Yom Tochnit
Shavua Tov! We had a beautiful and fun Shabbat (as always, b”h!) and are still thinking about the story we heard from Rav Binny Freedman at Seudat Shlishit. Rav Binny, Rosh Yeshiva at Orayta, visited and taught our tzevet Friday morning and over Shabbat. In addition, he led the Machal tisch Friday night, joined the […]
Thurs July 2 – 17 Tammuz
We had a later kima this morning since we had a fast day to get through – that gave everyone a little more rest, so they would have a bit more strength. Our tefilah included a few additions, such as אבינו מלכנו, a special קריאת התורה and some explanatory סליחות. While the younger chanichim had […]
Wednesday July 1
We woke up at the Chutz site, davened Shacharit, had some breakfast and then had shiur. As we approach the July 4th weekend, our Beit Midrash wanted to highlight and celebrate some important American Jews and some important institutions. The shiur, once again, presented 5 stations and the eidot rotated around to each of them. […]
Tuesday June 30 – Chutz Day 2
The pictures say it all – it has been very sunny and warm weather at our Chutz this year, and so fun and relaxing to hang out cooking around the fire for hours. There is so much shade from the hundreds of trees, and there is plenty of water, so it is easy for everyone […]
Monday June 29 – Chutz Day 1
Today all of our chanichim, hadracha and tzevet left for the Machane Chutz! We have officially “set up camp” a 15 min walk from camp -and our director Yakov Fleischmann and some of our security team moved out there as well! When each eidah was packed and ready, they walked over to the chutz site […]
Sunday June 28
Shavua Tov! After a beautiful shabbat and fun motzei shabbat night activites last night, we were given a little extra sleep this morning and kima was 8:00! Aaaahhh….. We learned about the hand of G-d in history. We wanted the chanichim to recognize that since we no longer have prophets telling us what is right […]