Elul marks the beginning of the new semester for the Chabad Yeshiva Gedola of Tverya, now beginning its 4th year.
The unique Yeshiva combines learning with outreach programs which help the young scholars to develop much needed skills of teaching and counseling.
Shlomo, age 19, who studied at the Yeshiva last year, said of the school, “By combining coaching with learning we are in a win-win situation. I feel that I have gained immensely by studying in this Yeshiva.”
Rabbi Yosef Kramer, the head shliach of Tverya and director of the yeshiva, said, “Many of the students are from low-income homes and the yeshiva provides scholarships that cover tuition as well as room and board, for those that fall into this category.”
Youth groups, adult education, visiting and uplifting the spirits of IDF soldiers on holidays and a “big brother” program to dysfunctional students are just some of the boy’s activities in their spare time.
In many sichos, the rebbe discusses the difference between shabbos and chanukah, one being that chanukah candles are lit towards the outside, while shabbos candles are lit inside.
The message I took from that was that while some mivtzoyim are to be done by going outside to the people, others are to be done by bringing the people inside.
You can dance with them on the boardwalk, but bring them in for kidush. Just like there is no such a mivtza as going in the streets to blow shoffar in elul (unlike rosh hashana), there in no mivztah kiddush
its real tzedakah
I spent the 1st shabbos they had there and a bunch of us bochurim went out into the main boardwalk there and said kiddush with the Israelis and danced witht hem. It was incredible. Kol hakavod!
We could do with a yeshiva that teaches inreach too.
We wish our good friend Rabbi Kramer much success in all the good work he does in Tiberias