REUVEN YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF YESHIVA KETANA OHR REUVEN REVIEWVol. 7 Issue #15 January 17, 2020 4:36 pm t"yz zah k zeny zyxt UPCOMING EVENTS Monday, January 20, 2020 No Transportation Arrival: K-5: 9 AM, 6-8: 8 AM Dismissal: K-8: 3 PM G.S. Teachers Professional Development Day Thursday, January 30, 2020 Early Dismissal K: 12:00 PM, P-8: 1:00 PM Friday, January 31, 2020 Mid-Winter Vacation Sessions resume on Wednesday, February 5th N’shei tea prize winner! Menachem Goldstein and Daniel Ben Shlomo having lunch with our Menahel, Rabbi Rawicki. Sunday, February 9, 2020 Hascholas Gemara Monday, February 17, 2020 Legal Holiday No Transportation Arrival: K-5: 9 AM, 6-8: 8 AM Dismissal: 12:45 PM Rebbeim and Teachers Professional Development Day IMPORTANT NOTES In case of inclement weather, please call the Yeshiva Ketana message line: 845.362.8362, Rabbi Purpas’s 7th grade master testers at work! (The Mesivta message x 199. 259 Grandview Avenue Suffern, NY 10901 From Kindergarten to Kollel and Beyond! line is 845.362.8362 x 198) 845.362.8362 www.ohrreuven.com Yeshiva Ketana | Mesivta | Beis Medrash | Kollel | Alumni Our Menahel, Rabbi Rawicki, testing Rabbi Weissman’s 2nd grade talmidim on their milim. The Pre-1A class learnt In Rabbi Weissman’s 2nd about the letter “N” and grade, Huda Stansky and used magic noodles to Eliezer Eisenstadt carried form the letter “N”! the wood, fire and a knife for the “akeda”. Rabbi Kohn’s 6th grade Yosef Shalom Adler class chazzered the holding a picture of his beginning of the perek name sake, our gadol over 800 times!! of the Week, Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv zt”l. Registration is now open for the Mad Science and Chess Wizards after-school program Winter Sessions! Both programs are beginning at end of January, so please register as soon as possible. See flyers on the Mrs. Goldring’s Pre-1A class took a trip to Eretz Yisroel and are davening at their kosel! Yeshiva Ketana website for more information. MAZEL TOV! Mazel tov to Dovid and Dun Elhyani upon their sister’s chasuna! Mazel tov to Rabbi Weissman’s 2nd grade class upon their grand siyum for finishing parshas `xie! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! The kindergarten class decorating their Alef Bais Aaron Needleman, 5th Grade books! Refael Tuvia Weinraub, Pre-1A Rabbi Purpas’s 7th grade class reached the half- way point of Eiruvin. Rabbi Purpas prepared a pictionary game based on over 100 cases found in the Mishnayos. At right is the winning group of the pictionary game! Middle School Honor Roll December 2019 Menacham Breningstall Baruch Stern Yehuda Berman Yonah Coren Yehoshua Weg Moshe Tzvi Czegledi Shimon Dahan Yoel Weisberg Shalom Yaakov Frances Dovid Feder Nati Zisman Shlomo Zalman Gottlieb Shmuel Fishman Shalom Gavriel Gross Naftali Tzvi Frankel Eliezer Dovid Baldinger Gavriel Hook Nechemia Gold Shlomo Bessler Dani Kohn J.J. Gotesman Chanoch Book Dov Aharon Yosef Meir Grynheim Yisroel Yonah Feiner Yehuda Morell Gavi Itzkowitz Yaakov Meir Gilden Moshe Needleman Pinchas Joseph Shloimy Goldstein Daniel Peikes Yakov Kirschner Chaim Gavriel Herskovich Daniel Robinson Shnuer Kurkus Dovid Kurzmann Yoni Mause Yaakov Levy Aryeh Mayerfeld Moshe Lorber Gavriel Perlman Moshe Newhouse Menachem Rieder Davi Robinson Dovid Rosenberg Daniel Silber Eli Stein Yehuda Weisberg Rabbi Yisroel in Gottlieb PARENTING thePARSHA ,una Yes, Your Child is a Prodigy skhv ,t lk ebh,u ,hrcgv in ,ebhn vat lk h,treu lktv vgrp ,c kt u,jt rnt,u Then his sister said to Paraoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get you a Hebrew nurse to nurse the child for you?” :(oa) v²bhfa§ ©v og rC©sk sh¦,g v²h¨v¤J hpk ,e³b²h tO±u e«bhk vC§r©v ,IH¦rm¦n kg UT©rh°z¡j¤v¤J. ,hrcgv in OF THE HEBREWS — She expressly said, “shall I call a nurse of the Hebrews?” because she (Paraoh’s daughter) had handed him to many Egyptian women to nurse him and he had refused to nurse — this was because he was destined to converse with the Shechina (Exodus Rabbah 1:21 and Sotah 12b). -Rashi ,hktrahc rapt ot ,,h,ufv in eubh, uehbh tk ouen kfnu Nevertheless, a child should not be nursed from a non-Jewish wet-nurse if it is possible to use a Jew -Rema, Yoreh Deah 81:7 The child is the father of the man -William Wordsworth Imagine you had a crystal ball. Imagine if in that crystal with the Shechina. Every Jewish child has the potential ball, you could see your child’s future. Now imagine that for greatness. Every child, even from the humblest when you look into that crystal ball, you discover that your background, can grow to be a leader in klal Yisroel. We child is going to be one of the gedolei hador. He may even must treat our children as though they are destined to be be the one to lead the Jewish people out of galus and that person. return them to their land with the rebuilt Bais Hamikdash. How would that knowledge of the future impact the way We sometimes get caught in the myopia of seeing our that you treat your child? How might it affect the choice of children only as they are now, as children. We lose sight of places to which you bring that child? How might it affect the fact that every child is the precursor of the adult that the things you will expose your child to? What if I told you he or she will become. In the immortal phrasing of William your child has that potential? Now what? Wordsworth, “The child is the father of the man.” While we need to remember that our children are children, Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky in his commentary to the Torah and we must raise them and guide them appropriately, notes a seeming incongruity in a psak of the Rema in we should also view them through the lens of the adults Shulchan Aruch. The Rema (YD 81:7) rules that a Jewish they will become. How will they remember what happens child should not be nursed from a non-Jewish nursemaid now when they grow up? How will the experiences of unless there is no other choice. The source for this halacha childhood affect their lives in adulthood? is Moshe Rabbeinu who, in this week’s parsha, refuses to nurse from the Egyptian nursemaids. Rav Yaakov points Most importantly, we need to view each of our children out that Rash”i explains that Moshe didn’t nurse from as the future gadol hador. We need to ask ourselves, as the Egyptian nursemaids because he was destined to often as we can, “if I knew I were raising the young Shlomo converse with the Shechina. If so, says Rav Yaakov, that Zalman Auerbach or the young Moshe Feinstein, or little halacha should not apply to regular children who are not Yosef Shalom Elyashiv what would I do in this situation?” destined to speak with the Shechina. Then, whatever your answer is, do that with your own child. Your crystal ball tells you he is a prodigy, destined Rav Yaakov explains that from here we learn a guiding for greatness. principle in chinuch. We must view, and raise every Good Shabbos, child as though he is destined to one day speak directly Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb Principal פרשת ויחי DUVY GROSSMAN MEVAKSHEI HASHEM בס"ד ONE RAFFLE TICKET PER QUESTION ANSWERED! Answers should be written on Q.O.D. cards and placed in mailbox outside office. !!פרשת שמות QUESTIONS ON ?father and mother מs’ שֶׁ הֶׁרֶׁבֶׁינּו What were the names of (1 ? מֶׁ צֶׁ רֶׁיֶׁם What were the names of the two famous midwives in (2 מ שֶׁ הֶׁרֶׁבֶׁינּו What is the name of the person who rescued (3 from the Nile River? מ? שֶׁ הֶׁרֶׁבֶׁינּו appear to ה' In what type of bush did (4 told to remove before he approached מ שֶׁ הֶׁרֶׁ בֶׁינּו What was (5 the burning bush? ?wife and father-in-law מs’ שֶׁ הֶׁרֶׁבֶׁינּו What were the names of (6 !!פרשתֶׁויחי RAFFLE WINNERS FROM ZVI DEUTSCH ELIEZER SPIVAK YOSEF FRIEDMAN (5th) SHOLOM GROSS C. T. EISENSTADT בס"ד Building off of the amazing inspiration and unity of Klal Yisroel at the Siyum HaShas, combined with the recent tragedies, and we will be working on our ,עשרה בטבת the approach of Over the next 3 weeks each time you see SOMEONE ELSE doing something kind to another person, fill it out on the assigned form (and place in the ‘mailbox’ by the office). TOGETHER, WE WILL BE”H REBUILD THE BAIS HAMIKDOSH!!!!! 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