Festive Chumash Ceremony Marks First Torah Studies for Pittsburgh Cheder First-Graders
With great pomp and splendor, a highly impressive ceremony was held on Tuesday, the 17th of Sivan, to mark the beginning of Chumash study for first-grade students at the Bnei Avraham Talmud Torah in Pittsburgh. The Talmud Torah, which has earned a distinctive reputation for raising generations of young Jews in service of Hashem and His Torah, invests every year in this important area with dignity and honor, in order to increase love of Torah among the young students.
The ceremony was attended by emotional parents יחד with distinguished grandfathers, who were deeply moved and even shed tears of gratitude to the Almighty for having reached this moment and for the privilege of seeing a righteous generation being educated in the traditional path, the path of the House of Israel. The parents expressed their admiration for the cooperation and wonderful performance of the beloved children throughout the sacred event, both in singing and in other aspects. Especially moving was seeing them in their pure prayer and at the beginning of their Chumash study.
The parents במיוחד praised the special dedication and warm bond with his students of the devoted teacher, Rabbi Israel Aharon Friedman, together with Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Mushkovitz throughout the year and especially during this period. The president of the Talmud Torah, the Pittsburgh Rebbe, graced the occasion with his presence and also delivered words of Torah, as he always closely supervises the students’ progress and the running of the Talmud Torah and its success, with God’s help, in material and spiritual matters. In his remarks, he praised the principal, the teachers, and the CEO, who devote their heads and most of themselves with wonderful dedication together with the entire staff for the sake of the students.
The event concluded with a prolonged dance of fathers, sons, and happy grandfathers, filled with praise and thanksgiving to the Almighty for the past, and prayer to the Creator for the future.
