New Program Tutors and Empowers Chabad Boys Remotely

By COLlive reporter

A new Chumash and Gemara tutoring service is empowering dozens of students to become independent learners, confident and enthusiastic in their abilities, and helping them achieve success in the classroom.

Your Torah Tutors, begun during the school shutdowns during the pandemic, is a one on one tutoring service offered by Chabad yungeleit to Yeshiva boys around the world, helping them to master learning Chumash and Gemara on their own.

The tutors use teaching methods that make learning fun and engaging, specializing in the use of their unique Gemara flashcards for expanding vocabulary. Experienced and caring teachers guide and support students to develop expertise in vocabulary, grammar, and reading and understanding of the text, in both Chumash and Gemara.

Tutors are carefully selected, all are warm, chassidishe role models who excel in their teaching techniques, sensitivity to your child’s needs, and commitment to their success.

The secret of their success is a 40-year-old tried and true Chinuch technique, developed by experienced educator Rabbi Shaul Klein to help even his most struggling students.

Rabbi Klein realized that drills and repetition weren’t effective for many of his students, and that he needed a learning technique that was more engaging, and that made it easier for students to review on their own. Armed with this insight, Rabbi Shaul Klein created unique flashcards that translate words using pictures – images that imprint themselves in a child’s minds more vividly than typical verbal translations. The results were dramatic: Rabbi Shaul Klein found that students using his flashcards could easily gain 5-7 new words a day with relative ease, and in a matter of months made tremendous strides in translating both Chumash and Gemara.

The program was adapted and expanded by the founder of Your Torah Tutors, after years of teaching kids with learning difficulties. He trained in the technique that enables the student, in roughly 4-6 months, to confidently open a Gemara and Chumash and learn on his own just as one of his peers. Several trained tutors have used this technique for many years, and it has already helped thousands of kids who have had difficulty learning.

The in-person method has now been adapted to be used effectively online through zoom, making their services available for students aged 8 and up, regardless of location. The program is non-profit and reasonably priced.

An average student learns 3-5 times a week for half-hour sessions, a perfect amount of time to get comfortable and settle in his learning without overburdening him.

The program is currently accepting registration for next school year. Spaces are limited.

For more information or to sign up, visit yourtorahtutors.com or contact Laibel Shemtov at [email protected]. References available.