A beautiful shabbos
This shabbos we had the zechus of having a seder niggunim with a group of cteens, which happened after mincha shabbos afternoon, and continued into motzie shbbos, and ended in a spontaneous dancing and singing. then the bochurim came back to yeshiva and sat down to take a gemara baal peh test of everything they learnt so far, to be part of mivtza torah.
Our most exciting and adventurest trip so far (click the text to view pictures)
The esteemed Rosh hamesivta
Tuesday night during night seder we had the privilege of having the Rosh hamesivta of tzeirei hashluchim rabbi zalman kaplan, who came and answered all of the bochurims questions about anything that might be troubling them about a bochurs life.
Leagues!
A true yeshiva kayitz cant exist without very serious leagues, and so this past motzei shabbos the bochurim all gathered in the zal for the draft to hear who the captains was of each team and even saw the beginning picks of each team. Then Sunday started the first league games with all the bochurim energetic, confident in their teammates, ready to face any opposing team. and play they did, on beautifully new fields and courts, leagues has definitely started of with a bang.
Our first adventure
The first trip of YKTH started off with a bang as we climbed down har arbel in beautiful israel weather. when we got to the bottom of the mountain, we were greeted by ice cold water and fresh danishes. Then we headed to the keneret for a much needed swim. The next part of our trip was to the rambam's kever were we made a siyum on rambam. And just when we thought that we had to get back to yeshiva because it was getting close to shabbos, we made one last stop at the supermarket to get everything we needed.
Getting started...
It’s been barely two days since our buses made their way up the windy hills of Tzfas and pulled up in front of our beautiful YKTH campus. Two days, but it feels like we’ve been here for months. After the long flight to Eretz Yisroel, wasting no time we jumped straight into our full blown learning schedule.
Shiurim were quickly set up and our top tier magidei shiurim introduced. fascinating shiurim fill the day. starting with chassidus before davening, follows by an amazing curriculum covering the different aspects of maachalei Aku”m, as well as an exclusive YKTH study of Eretz Yisroel.
Complimented by a complete half day sports schedule, which will lead us to the highly anticipated draft Motzei Shabbos, kicking off leagues. Stay tuned for details.
Not to mention the revolutionary program called Tzfas Elite that was kicked off Wednesday night. The program encourages and assists us bochurim to appreciate the unique position they are in as Yidden, Chassidim and especially as Temimim. This recognition translates into increased focus on keeping to higher standards in all areas of our life, be it the way we speak, dress, and even raven and learn. For a Tomim every must ‘Past!
A daily Duch is filled out via state of the art kiosks, as the program is based around the real world credit card system, in which to be a card member, there higher profile the card, the card member is held to certain standards - be it in yearly income or basic spending, in order to be eligible to tap into the Benefits of the card.
To finish off the day, Mivtzah Torah was launched. A program giving bochurim the extra push to put in the time and effort to finish the entire Meseches Makos!
Tomorrow will bring its own adventures...and we’ve only been here for two days....
Welcome to YKTH 5778!
After a very long and exhausting trip, the brochurim were greeted with fresh hot pizza and ice cold drinks, and so much more.
GRAND TRIP DAY #5/GRAND BANQUET
Sunday morning for the first time in YKTH history we went to the Blind Museum in Cholon. Our guide is blind and the whole museum is pitch black, so we got to understand to some extent what it means to be blind, it was a very thought provoking and awakening part of our trip. Our final stop was Kfar Chabad, we saw the 770 replica, kehos and got a tour of the Rober leather factory. At 6 pm it was time for the Grand YKTH 5777 Gala Banquet, set up in a nice kefar Chabad hall we had an enjoyable full course dinner. Certain bochurim who excelled for different things throughout the summer were recognized and rewarded, Mivtza Torah bochurim got personalized leather bound siddurim and the YKTH director presented every staff member a beautiful gift.
GRAND TRIP DAY #3/4
After davenig Friday morning, we had a great country style breakfast catered by our hosts at Mitzpe Rimon. Our first destination was Masada; we hiked the back of the mountain arriving at the top where our guide Gili explained the rich and sad history of the place. After saying a bye to Gili - the YKTH tour guide, we took the cable carts down and headed to the Yam Hamelach. It was such a cool experience floating in the salty sea, all of us then took much needed showers to remove all the salty salt. Finally it was time for the highlight of the grand trip; Shabbos in chevron, before entering chevron we boarded special bullet proof buses for the safety of our journey. In Chevron we strayed at the Gutnick center, a 2 minute walk from Meoras Hamachpaila. Friday night we davend by the Meorah, also having a really nice Seder Niggunim. That nights Shabbos meal was leibidik, we were in chevron and it was YKTH’s last Friday night, So we farbreinged and sang the night away. Shabbos morning we all said Tehillim at the Mehora, learnt chassidus on the grass with danishes and Shoko besakit and then davend Shachris. After the Seudah, Rabbi Mordy Hellinger one of the shluchim to Chevron took us on an amazing tour. He showed us the Avrham Avinu shul, where Shalhevet a’’h was killed, the Kevarim of Rus and Yishai and even the kever of Rebbetzien Menucha Rachel. We then went to the home of Chevrons head Shaliach Rabbi Danny Cohen, he spoke to us about his shlichus and we sang niggunim together. After Marriv and Havdala we went back to the Arad Guesthouse for Melave Malke and good night’s sleep.