Sunday July 13
Shavua Tov! We are beginning this week with the fast day of the 17th of Tammuz. This day commemorates 5 things, according to a Mishnah in Masechet Ta’anit. One of which, the most famous, is the Romans breaking through the walls around Jerusalem on the way to destroying the Beit HaMikdash. There are special tefillot, […]
Thurs July 10
We really needed to catch up on sleep and B”h we had late kima today at 8:30. Well, most of us had late kima! Eidah Daled had super early kima to get on buses and travel a few hours (they all fell asleep pretty immediately) to white water rafting!! Amazing day having fun in the […]
Wed July 10 – Color War Day 2
Our Color War competition between Yeshiva and Kehilla continued today. Again, on-time attendance and impressivce kavanah at the tefillot today 🙂 We hope some of that will stay with us even after Color War! The teams take turns decorating the Chadar Ochel each meal. Our tzevet – who also made a team to join the […]
Tues July 8 – Color War Day 1
Game on!! Team Yeshiva (blue and yellow) vs. Team Kehilla (black and red) Every single person has something to contribute during these two days -whether you are strong in sports and the competitions or creative in dance and Melechet Yad or full of spirit for cheering and marches – everything is for points, so give […]
Monday July 7
Today we learned about a concept we speak about with the well-known phrase from Pirkei Avot: עשה לך רב – make for yourself a teacher/mentor. The chanichim were taught about the Yeshiva of Volozhin, started and led by Rav Chaim who had learned from the Vilna Gaon. The idea of a yeshiva, instead of learning […]
Sunday July 6
Shavua Tov! We all had a beautiful Shabbat #3 – we had even louder voices during tefilah and zemirot and slow shira at seudah shlishit! The chanichim who were never here for Shabbat are catching on to the tunes and the order of songs. Today we began the day with shiur about the dynamic nature […]
Thursday July 3
Man plans and G-d laughs… We had the best weather at the Chutz (and I even bragged about it!!) and then suddenly right before dawn, we were woken up by rain on our faces. Everyone got out of their sleeping bags and walked back to camp and fell right into their beds (ahhh…home sweet home). […]
Wednesday July 2
The pictures say it all – it has been the most gorgeous perfect weather at our Chutz this year, and so fun and relaxing to hang out cooking around the fire for hours. The campers really enjoy getting to know nature, while playing and talking with others of all ages. There is a Melechet Yad […]
Tuesday July 2
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 Flesichmann and some of our security team moved out there as well! But let me tell you how they broke it out: We learned about machloket […]
Monday June 30
We began with a shiur about the challenge in striking the right balance between over-indulging in physicality AND living a life of asceticism (big word that was new for many) which is the belief that a person should pull back from the physical world around us. The question arose after learning about the GR”A – […]