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Mazel Tov to the Rosh Hayeshiva Shlit”A UPON HIS Annual Siyum Hashas This Past Thursday YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF YESHIVA DARCHEI NOAM… 7:19 p.m. Vol. 3 Issue #24 April 15, ‘16 ז‘ ניסן תשע"ו Darchei Doings Finding 4's "Four" the past number of weeks, the hallways have been buzz- ing with students trying to figure out the meaning behind the strange, esoteric signs (below). Finally, this past Sunday, at our Chodesh Nissan assembly, the talmidim found out. There are many sets of four on seder night - four sons, four questions, four cups of wine, four mitzvos of the evening etc. The Vilna Gaon points out that these repeated fours, correspond to the four peo- ple who are required to bring a korban todah. Since this is a night when we commemorate our being saved in all these four ways, Chazal emphasized the number four. The signs in the hallway, it was finally revealed, hinted to our How many 4's can you find in ארבע מי יודע - - new Pesach contest Yiddishkeit and the natural world Hashem created. As soon as the contest was launched, many talmidim were seen scurrying away to get started! Please see flyer, for more details about this exciting contest! Mazel Tov to the Rosh hayeshiva shlit”a UPON HIS Annual Siyum Hashas this Past Thursday Thank you To the Nshei for sponsoring pizza for Chodesh Nissan at our pre- pesach assembly on Sunday. On Mon- day, our preschool received cute bean bag frogs for their treat. ANTI-BULLYING - KAMOCHA PROJECT This week R’ Wieder’s 6th grafr began to help test and create a pilot pro- gram for the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation. The program focuses on .”כמוך“ ,treating others as we would ourselves We expanded the program to focus on many forms of exclusion-ism and nonverbal innuendos, that could possibly have a negative effect on others. Our Talmidim were forthcoming and insightful in sharing these incidents and providing strategies to combat them in the future. B"H, in just a few days, we have already begun to see the program’s phenomenal impact. HIKE AND LUNCH KINDERGARTEN’S MODEL SEDER -The kinder משניות עיריבן Mazal Tov! To celebrate the completion of Rabbi Brodie, the s’gan rosh garten boys משניות 96 - פרקים 10 yeshiva of Ohr are hard at Reuven took the work getting 7th grade class ready for on an amazing p e s a c h . hike to Kakiat They had a Mountain. The model seder boys then re- where they turned to yeshiva w e n t for mincha. And through eve- of course that ry step of was not the end the seder of their siyum, they left Yeshiva f r o m again! For a deli- k a d d e s h cious ending to t h r o u g h this great siyum n i r t z a h the boys went to even eating Subaba for lunch. the “real” matzah they made by themselves. Selling Chometz When they Did you sell your chometz yet? 1st grade did! They g o t t o each signed their own shtar mechiras chometz and then sold it all to the custodian. magid all the boys recited t h e m a n i s h t a n a beautifully! Can you be- lieve it, not one boy fell asleep even though it wasn’t over until 3:00 (pm) IN THE MEDIA In response to some recent events in town regarding our rela- tions to other ethnic groups, Rab- bi Horowitz, our dean, arranged for the head of the local chapter of the NAACP to come speak to our middle school stu- dents this past Wednes- day, April 13th. Members of the local me- dia came to cover this event. The boys made a tremendous Kiddush Ha- shem which we hope will present a positive image of the Orthodox Jewish community. MATZAH BAKERY KINDERGARTEN “AT THE MATZAH BAKERY” 3RD GRADERS DISPLAYING THE WHEAT 4TH GRADERS GRINDING THE WHEAT THE MATZAH MEN MIXING THE FLOUR AND WAITER 1ST GRADERS ROLLING OUT THE DOUGH PRE-1AERS PERFORATING HOLES Raffle Campaign Opportunity 100 Days of Pre-1A We are proud to announce that our annual Raffle Cam- We finally reached our 100th day of school, and wow did paign has raised $10,000.00! we celebrate! Each boy received an empty bag to fill with We are very proud of our boys! - There's still a lot more 100 pieces of food. Everyone had to count by tens in or- that can be accomplished. We will be having a raffle- der to do this (10 pieces of popcorn, 10 cookies, etc.) within-a-raffle over Pesach. In addition to the individual prizes and the class prizes that the boys can win, we will We decorat- be raffling off this amazing bike after Pesach! ed 100 day hats and glasses to WIN THIS AMAZING BIKE! wear. We played a game called Hundred-O. M o r a h called out r a n d o m n u m b e r s from 1 until 100 which the boys x’d on their sheets. When the last number (100, of course) in a row was marked the Pre-1A yelled out Hun- dred-O (Bingo)! Morah read us a joke/riddle book about counting to 100 and a story about a girl who had a hard time deciding how to decorate her 100th Day Poster. There were many crea- tive and thoughtful posters brought in by the boys. If you All Talmidim will have been given additional raffle book- are in the neighborhood drop by and see our display. lets before the Pesach break so they can continue selling over Yom Tov. Remember to take your raffle booklets Shnayim Mikra with you wherever you go, so you can get many entries Rabbi Spivak, our Shnayim Mikra coordinator giving out for the bike raffle! Each $20.00 in tickets sold will be shnayim mikra prizes to first graders worth one raffle ticket, and each full booklet will be worth 5 tickets (4+1 bonus ticket!). The drawing for this bike will be"H take place after Pesach. HONOR ROLL Mazel tov to the following sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students who were named to the Middle School Honor Roll for the month of March: Yaakov Berman, Shmuel Betsalel, Yossi Book, Yehonasan Feder, Yitzchok Frankel, Yosef Gross, Ezra Hook, Menachem Kahn, Meir Morell, Moishy Muller, Yosef Needleman, Avromi Perkowski, Yonah Perlman, Azriel Pollak, Nachman Raff, Doniel Red- lich, Yisrael Resnick, Noam Schechter, Shimon Chometz Siyum Schwab, Shimon Senter, Shlomo Silber, Elchanan On honor of finishing Parshas Shelach, R’ Plotzker’s 6th Silverman, Eitan Warum, Eliyahu Shimon Abboudi, grade had a deliciously filling 'Get Rid of Your Chometz Eliyahu Bessler, Yisroel Mendel Gold, Avi Gruen, Siyum'! We Moshe Kohn, Yehoshua Mordechai Lichstein, Moshe never knew ביעור Magid, Avi Mayerfeld, Moshe Meir Zev Metal, Nussy that could חמץ Pachman, Ari Petlin, Gavriel Aron Robinson, Efraim Schachter. Yisroel Schneeweiss, Yitzchok Spivak, be so much Yaakov Stansky, Moshe Shimon Weltin, Yonatan Meir fun! Ambinder, Shlomo Brachfeld, Dovid Brodie, Yakov Yosef Coren, Ezra Goldman, Yehoshua Simcha Lew- is, Yisrael Meir Schuster, Yitzchak Shipper, Yaakov Yehoshua Shuster, Eliezer Yampel, Eliyahu Zelefsky. What's Doing In 8th Grade VOLUNTEERING FOR CHASDEI LEV A SPECIAL GUEST FROM THE MIR The eighth graders spent Rabbi Resnick from the Mir Yeshiva came to speak to their free time on Sunday, Yeshivas Ohr engaging in chessed. Al- Reuven. Our most all the 8th graders lucky 7th and volunteered to help 8th grade Chasdei Lev (an organiza- were invited tion dedicated to helping to his shiur. Mechanchim) with their He spoke to distribution. The intrepid the boys talmidim braved cold tem- about the value of one p e r a t u r e s day of lear- and strong winds for ing. Rabbi three hours Resnick is the loading box- Rebbi of Rab- es into cars bi Peikes. All for distribu- the boys got tion result- to meet and ing in every- speak briefly one getting with Rabbi their boxes. R e s n i c k . What a won- What an amaz- derful experience. ing experience this was for our boys. OUR AMAZING TRIP ONES TRASH ANOTHER’S TREASURE The eighth graders once Pesach is in the air, which includes lots of cleaning and again went on a reward home improvements. If you are getting rid of any furni- trip as part of the tech- ture, toys, games or books etc in good condition perhaps nology awareness pro- one of our Rabbeim/teachers would benefit from receiv- gram. The trip was to ing them. Please call the Yeshiva and let us High Exposure, where know what you have (please do not just they did an amazing ar- drop it off.) We'd like to also remind you to please send in your boxtops that have been piling up! Thank you and happy cleaning! Happy Birthday K Mordechai Brick, Teddy Reichman, P Shlomo Reich 1st Yosef Friedman, 3rd Gavriel Binyomin Luwish, Bentzi Weiss 5th Azriel Laster 6th Noam Schechter, Yisrael Res- ray of rock wall climbing, nick leaps of faith, belaying, and parcour. The eighth graders mastered all the Calendar Reminder obstacles and had a Wednesday, April 20th through Sunday, May 1st, Pesach great time. Thank you to Vacation. Rabbi Yitzi Kahana and Monday, May 2nd, Sessions Resume Ari Goldstein for chaper- Tuesday, May 17th, No Transportation, Transportation pro- oning. Thank you to the vided for Ramapo Central Schwab and Peikes fami- Friday, May 20th, Torah Umesorah Convention, lies for sponsoring.
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