Tiferes Bachurim in Morristown had a packed Elul – packed with more than sixty talmidim and more than forty visitors over the course of the month!
Packed also with inspiration, learning, special events and speakers, growth and excitement.
It was a month of firsts. First Shabbos; first mamar, page of gemara, mishna, or Pnei Yehoshua; first farbrengen; first time in the Rebbe’s room and 770 or the Ohel, and many more.
The following is a reaction of just one of the visitors who spent Shabbos selichos with yeshiva, and there are so many more reflections like it; “Am Israel chai! Thank you all for a profound experience! This was the first Shabbat I kept in my life, but will not be the last. Shana Tova!!”
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Two thousand years ago all Jews, men women and children, the elderly and little babies, all crowded together once every seven years for hakhel. Because the Torah wants that a Jew should not only study about Yiddishkeit, and should not only be enthusiastic about and feel Yiddishkeit, but that he should experience Yiddishkeit. Hakhel was that experience; within all the tumult, the noise and the fuss, every attendee felt a palpable presence of Torah and Hashem’s Kingship.
Today that hakhel experience is felt most profoundly in yeshiva. As much as one can study and be uplifted outside of yeshiva, only yeshiva is a total immersion into Torah and darkei hachasidus.
So go ahead, bring a Jew to Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim- Morristown, NJ, and in that merit may we experience hakhel in the Bais Hamikdash with melech haMoshiach immediately now!
I had went for Shabbos this month. Flying in from Florida, I had to clue what to expect. It was such an amazing experience and everyone there was so nice and welcoming. Thank you for a great experience! – Matthew Boggan, President of Chabad at Florida Gulf Coast University