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March 19 2021 TIMELESS Dear Parents Chasdei Hashem that we were able with great to hold in person learning for our talmidim and talmidos A tremendous debt of hakoras hatov is owed to our rabbeim moros teachers administration and office staff for making this happen Thank you to all the courageous volunteers who stepped in to substitute and proctor when needed Thank you to all the parents for trusting us with your precious charges The theme of Pesach and the seder in particular is transmitting the to our children It is a night and a of chinuch The mishnah in Psachim provides us with the directive A parent is guided and directed to understand his child and transmit the message to his according to where he or she is holding 6 37 PM Torah is timeless and speaks to everyone regardless of where they are We say in the haggadah The Torah speaks to four sons Rav Chaim Brisker zt l writes that when it comes to any other subject or book a younger person reads a beginner s level book and as he progresses the subject matter becomes more difficult and advanced The book changes Not so the Torah The same pasuk in Chumash that is taught to a first grader is being learned by a 12th grader an adult and a because March 23 April 5 Pesach break We hope and we are that that send us the Rabbi Ochs Torah Academy was filled with the sounds of Pesach songs Children in preschool learning the four questions to sing at the seder as well as other songs along with their Pesach learning The older children learned the songs related to the words in the haggadah as well as preparing Divrei Torah and other wonderful projects You will now get to enjoy the fruits of their labor On Tuesday morning we began our special Sefer Torah Campaign Rabbi Heshy Pincus a well known sofer and educator spoke to the children over Zoom about sifrei Torah In this introduction to what will be an ongoing learning opportunity he briefly talked about what goes into the making a Sefer Torah He showed them a cow hide back and front side which will be made into the parchment sheets of a Torah He highlighted some points about the importance of writing a Sefer Torah and shared inspiring stories The children were also told about a special raffle that will take place as part of this project This was only the beginning of their study of this choshuva mitzvah In another part of the initiation of the Sefer Torah Campaign on Tuesday evening parents and grandparents were also treated to Rabbi Pincus inspiring presentation regarding the mitzvah of writing a Sefer Torah He rolled out the very special journal project where families will adopt a parsha and will prepare divrei Torah stories puzzles and other pertinent items for their parsha The journal will be a keepsake of this important mitzvah An email went out to families about this Check your email He filled in a letter in the first line of the new Sefer Torah He said that he is looking forward to joining the TA community when it is time to complete the last letters of the Torah in a big Simchas Torah 5B celebrated a Siyum on Mishnayos Yuma with a fantastic lego Bais HaMikdash presentation by Yitzy Kasowitz of JBricks and were treated to a fleishig lunch Thank you to all the parents who sponsored the celebration Thank you to Rabbi Sternfield 2G celebrated 100 days of school Each student brought in 100 different collections
Bulletin Board DAY OF LEARNING 2 Nissan sponsored by Dr Sasha Ora Zyto liluy nishmas Shmuel ben Nessim z l 3 Nissan sponsored by Dr Sandra Weinreb in loving memory of her grandmother Simy Benchimol bas Amram a h May her neshama have an aliyah 3 Nissan sponsored by Tzvi Ruth Gluckin liluy nishmas Avidan Michoel ben Dovid Yosef HaCohen z l 4 Nissan sponsored by Zalman Etty Burger in loving memory of Rochel bas HaRav Nossan Noteh Leib a h beloved a wife mother grandmother and great grandmother Together with her husband HaRav Moshe Aryeh Schwartz zt l they were staunch guardians of Yiddishkeit in the Bronx for over 40 years They are sorely missed 5 Nissan sponsored by Torah Academy in memory of Dina bas Pinchas a h sister of Mr Sam Chajes MAZEL TOV TO Noach 06 Leah Fireman on the birth of their daughter and to grandparents Rebbi Eliezer Mrs Rivky Fireman and to great grandparents Rabbi Eli Mrs Edie Dovek and Rabbi Avrohom Mrs Karen Fireman Mr Shay Mrs Anna Atar on the birth of their grandson to Shlomo Adi Anapolle Yehoshua Sack 09 Dafna Meyerowitz on their engagement and to parents Mr Zev and Mrs Norit Sack Amichai 10 Polyak and Michal Pendrak on their wedding and to parents Mr Gavi and Mrs Pazit Polyak SEFER TORAH CAMPAIGN Rabbi Heshy Pincus begins the Sefer Torah campaign with a special presentation for the students
PRESCHOOL SNAPSHOTS Preschool in Action Practicing for biur chametz in PreK2 and preparing haggados Working in centers in PreK1 Kindergarten volcano experiment Kindergarten students prepare their haggados set up a seder table and enjoy the park on one of the warmer days
WILLISTON SNAPSHOTS 2B coloring a Pesach project As part of their study of decimals the boys in grade four took a trip to Shaw s to complete a price of items challenge Using decimal computation 4B students work on a color by number page SHNAYIM MIKRA Mazel Tov to learners for Parshas Vayakel Pikudei 4B 6B 8B Natanel Atar Eliezer Feuerstein Moshe Beilin Moshe Bark Ephraim Kashnow Yisrael Feldman Elchanon Frohlich Shmuel Loketch Uri Katz Yosef Hoffman Naftoli Ochs Moishe Leff Shua Kashnow Tzvi Posy Yosef Yaakov Mermelstein Tuvia Schonberg Mendel Meyers 5B Dov Posy Ezra Klompas 7B Binyomin Septimus Uri Knisbacher Yehuda Ezra Feuerstein Avrami Shimanovich Moshe Aryeh Riesel Aaron Sanieoff Chatzkel Wilhelm Yaakov Septimus Noam Youshaei
IN 2G 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL The girls display their amazing collections
HAMILTON SNAPSHOTS The girls in grade four decorate their special Pesach trays Korban Pesach pillows prepared by 5G Students in 2G learn about Pesach while they create their haggados 4G learn about the process of making matzoh 4G celebrate Pi Day and discover that 3 14 is the number you get if you divide the circumference of any circle by its diameter Author Michael Levin visits 5G after they read the book he wrote Daughter of the Revolution Tova Kahn demonstrates hair styling to grades 6 7 and 8
5B SIYUM MASECHES YUMA Screenshots of Lego models of the Beis Hamikdash