Conferences & Events – COL · Episode 70 · Sivan 5770 · 1:11:12
Chumash Celebration, "Ohalei Torah" Cheder, Kfar Chabad, 5770
Guest: Dovid Zilberstrom, Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, Ben-Tzion Vishetzky, Eliezer Brod
Machine translation into English of the automatic Hebrew transcript.
00:21 Speaker 1 Welcome to this great day, to the Chumash celebration, which is really a celebration of the Giving of the Torah. Today we bring our sons, our guarantors—guarantors in two senses. They guarantee the Torah’s continuation, and they bring sweetness and delight. [unclear] And now the boy Chaim Rabinowitz will bless the parents and the guests, and [unclear] all the children.
04:27 Speaker 2 On behalf of [unclear], thank you to all the guests and parents who came to take part, and thank you for the learning we do in cheder, taught entirely in the holy way. Thank you to [unclear]. Shalom aleichem, rabbis. Shalom aleichem, children. [unclear] Where does a Jewish child really come from? Where does a Jewish child really come from? [unclear] We want [unclear]. We learn Torah [unclear]. We want [unclear]. We learn Torah [unclear]. We want [unclear]. We learn Torah [unclear]. We want [unclear].
06:57 Speaker 13 What Torah do you learn?
07:17 Speaker 2 Our own Torah, our own Torah.
07:22 Speaker 13 What [unclear] do you learn? What [unclear] do you learn?
07:22 Speaker 2 Our own [unclear], our own [unclear].
07:29 Speaker 13 What language do we speak here? What language do we speak here?
07:33 Speaker 2 What language? Yiddish is our language. [unclear] Yiddish is our language. [unclear] We learn Torah [unclear]. [unclear] We are fine children, [unclear]. We are fine children, [unclear].
09:32 Speaker 16 [unclear]
09:38 Speaker 17 [unclear]
09:44 Speaker 18 [unclear] all of Israel.
09:49 Speaker 19 [unclear]
09:55 Speaker 2 We are fine children, [unclear]. We are fine children, [unclear]. Of the world.
10:15 Speaker 19 [unclear] Shalom [unclear]. [unclear] Eliel. [unclear] Yehudi Friedman. [unclear] What?
10:40 Speaker 2 There is none besides Him, King of the world. Amen, yes, yes, and Geulah, and say amen. There is none besides Him, King of the world.
10:55 Speaker 19 [unclear]
10:59 Speaker 2 [unclear] Chaim [unclear].
11:04 Speaker 19 [unclear] all of Israel.
11:15 Speaker 2 Amen, yes, yes, and Geulah, and say amen. There is none besides Him, King of the world. Amen, yes, yes, and Geulah, and say amen. There is none besides Him, King of the world.
11:47 Speaker 19 [unclear] Mira Mishnah.
11:49 Speaker 2 [unclear] our sister [unclear].
11:49 Speaker 19 [unclear] Reb Breizel.
11:49 Speaker 2 [unclear] Shalom Gordoni. Amen, yes, yes, and Geulah, and say amen. There is none besides Him, King of the world. Amen, yes, yes, and Geulah, and say amen. There is none besides Him, King of the world.
12:09 Speaker 19 [unclear] Dovid Yosef.
12:13 Speaker 2 [unclear] Menachem, [unclear] Menachem. [unclear] Shalom Goldi, [unclear] David [unclear], [unclear] little Yaakov. [unclear] little Dovid, [unclear] Yankele, [unclear] Sholem and [unclear], [unclear] Michel [unclear], [unclear] Shmulik Fishman.
15:57 Speaker 20 Moshe received the Torah at Sinai and transmitted it to Yehoshua, and Yehoshua to the elders. The Torah passes from generation to generation through those who transmit its teachings, through the rabbis of every generation. With us is the mara d’asra, the esteemed Rabbi Ashkenazi. We have the special privilege of having him here with us, particularly for this celebration of the Giving of the Torah.
18:15 Speaker 21 [unclear] teaching Yiddish as well. [unclear] At the age of four, a child needs to learn and to daven. [unclear] The little child [unclear] chassidim [unclear], learning [unclear], Hashem’s mitzvos [unclear]. [unclear] Every moment. [unclear] Everyone needs [unclear], both the child and the parents. [unclear] This helps very much. [unclear] It warms the heart. [unclear] It calms my heart. [unclear] more and more [unclear] each moment.
19:25 Speaker 3 If only I will not see [unclear].
19:26 Speaker 21 Kingship.
19:27 Speaker 3 [unclear] This is the day. Who has kept us alive to reach this time.
19:56 Speaker 21 [unclear]
20:03 Speaker 3 [unclear] This is the day Hashem has made; Who has kept us alive to reach this time. Amen. [unclear] When you sit, [unclear], and when you walk, [unclear]. [unclear] And when you walk, [unclear]. When you sit, [unclear], and when you walk, [unclear]. [unclear] And when you walk, [unclear]. Learn, learn more and more; learn Chassidus more and more. Learn, learn more and more; learn Chassidus more and more. We are, we are [unclear]. Learn, learn more and more; learn Chassidus more and more. Learn, learn more and more. Learn Chassidus more and more. We are, we are [unclear]. … Learn, learn more and more, learn
28:34 Speaker 4 Fortunate are the fathers, the good fathers; fortunate are the good fathers.
28:46 Speaker 5 [unclear]
29:02 Speaker 4 A song for us [unclear] heroes and steadfast lights [unclear].
29:19 Speaker 5 A song for us [unclear] from Egypt to Eretz Yisroel.
29:37 Speaker 4 …
29:47 Speaker 5 [unclear] Israel.
29:59 Speaker 4 [unclear]
30:09 Speaker 5 [unclear] remember once.
30:12 Speaker 4 Will be.
32:57 Speaker 6 Verse one. Verse two. Verse two.
34:17 Speaker 8 From among you [unclear].
34:17 Speaker 7 An offering to Hashem.
34:19 Speaker 8 An offering to Hashem.
34:19 Speaker 7 To Hashem your G-d.
34:22 Speaker 8 To Hashem your G-d.
34:25 Speaker 7 From the animals, from the animals.
34:26 Speaker 8 From the animals, from the animals.
34:33 Speaker 7 From the cattle and from the flock.
34:39 Speaker 8 From the cattle and from the flock.
34:40 Speaker 7 And from the goats and from the sheep.
34:40 Speaker 8 And from the goats and from the sheep.
34:48 Speaker 7 You shall bring your offering.
34:50 Speaker 8 You shall bring your offering.
34:52 Speaker 7 Your offering—those come first.
34:56 Speaker 8 Your offering—those come first.
35:00 Speaker 7 Verse three, with this finger. A finger. Use your finger. If his offering is a burnt offering.
35:16 Speaker 8 If his offering is a burnt offering.
35:16 Speaker 7 “His offering” means a korban.
35:19 Speaker 8 “His offering” means a korban.
35:20 Speaker 7 From the cattle and from the flock.
35:25 Speaker 8 From the cattle and from the flock.
35:27 Speaker 7 An unblemished male.
35:30 Speaker 8 An unblemished male.
35:31 Speaker 7 And [unclear].
35:34 Speaker 8 And [unclear].
35:38 Speaker 7 He shall bring it, [unclear].
35:42 Speaker 8 He shall bring it, [unclear].
35:42 Speaker 7 To the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
35:44 Speaker 8 To the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
35:46 Speaker 7 He shall bring it willingly.
35:50 Speaker 8 He shall bring it willingly.
35:54 Speaker 7 [unclear]
35:57 Speaker 8 [unclear]
36:00 Speaker 7 Before Hashem.
36:04 Speaker 8 Before Hashem.
36:09 Speaker 7 Verse four: “And he shall lean his hand upon the head of the burnt offering.”
36:10 Speaker 8 Verse four: “And he shall lean his hand upon the head of the burnt offering.”
36:16 Speaker 7 He leans [unclear]. His hands, his hands. [unclear] the place of the burnt offerings. [unclear] the place of the burnt offerings. “And it will be accepted for him, to atone for him.” “And it will be accepted for him, to atone for him.” [unclear] [unclear] from the sin. [unclear] from the sin. [unclear] Now you are singing. [unclear] And who will bring the korbanos? Who will bring the korbanos? But what about bringing korbanos? Bringing korbanos. And who brings the korbanos? The korbanos. [unclear] When you come to the third Beis Hamikdash, the kohen will [unclear] the korbanos. Yes. Very good. Now let’s all say amen, and [unclear] that the Beis Hamikdash be rebuilt. [unclear] May it be Your will, Hashem our G-d and G-d of our fathers, that the Beis Hamikdash be rebuilt speedily in our days. [unclear] May the Beis Hamikdash be rebuilt speedily in our days, amen, and [unclear].
38:33 Speaker 9 May the Beis Hamikdash be rebuilt speedily in our days, amen. May the Beis Hamikdash be rebuilt speedily in our days, amen.
39:07 Speaker 7 May the Beis Hamikdash be rebuilt speedily in our days. [unclear] Because if you want, you can do everything in your power. [unclear] In a moment, I need to tell him what I’m doing here. Where were we supposed to be? So I don’t have time to go over it again today. But I have a part in [unclear] of our group. [unclear] A smooth stone, an empty stone. All the children are playing inside the bowl. A smooth stone, an empty stone. All the children are playing inside the bowl. A smooth stone, an empty stone. All the children are playing inside the bowl. Now we’ll walk along the table and keep playing music.
41:00 Speaker 10 We’ll make a square with four corners, and we’ll make a square with four sides. We’ll make a square with four corners, and we’ll make a square with four sides. So come on, it’s time to sing. We’ll stand in place. We’ll move our feet a little, we’ll move our hands a little. We’re dancing here, dancing here, dancing here.
41:55 Speaker 11 Light.
41:57 Speaker 10 Light.
41:58 Speaker 11 Vitality.
41:59 Speaker 10 Vitality.
42:01 Speaker 11 To us.
42:02 Speaker 10 To us.
42:04 Speaker 11 Moshe.
42:05 Speaker 10 Moshe.
42:07 Speaker 11 Moishele.
42:08 Speaker 10 Moishele.
42:10 Speaker 11 Yes.
42:12 Speaker 10 Yes.
42:13 Speaker 11 Yaakov. His name.
42:16 Speaker 10 His name.
42:18 Speaker 11 Yisroel.
42:19 Speaker 10 Yisroel.
42:21 Speaker 11 Hashem.
42:23 Speaker 10 Hashem.
42:24 Speaker 11 Our G-d.
42:25 Speaker 10 Our G-d.
42:27 Speaker 11 Hashem.
42:28 Speaker 10 Hashem.
42:29 Speaker 11 Is One.
42:30 Speaker 10 Is One.
42:32 Speaker 11 To the One.
42:33 Speaker 10 To the One.
42:35 Speaker 11 In every generation.
42:36 Speaker 10 In every generation.
42:37 Speaker 11 Is obligated.
42:39 Speaker 10 Is obligated.
42:40 Speaker 11 A person.
42:41 Speaker 10 A person.
42:43 Speaker 11 To see.
42:44 Speaker 10 To see.
42:45 Speaker 11 Himself.
42:46 Speaker 10 Himself.
42:48 Speaker 11 As though.
42:49 Speaker 10 As though.
42:50 Speaker 11 He is leaving.
42:51 Speaker 10 He is leaving.
42:53 Speaker 11 Egypt.
42:54 Speaker 10 Egypt.
42:56 Speaker 11 All of Israel.
42:57 Speaker 10 All of Israel.
43:00 Speaker 11 Have.
43:01 Speaker 10 Have.
43:02 Speaker 11 A share.
43:04 Speaker 10 A share.
43:04 Speaker 11 In the World.
43:05 Speaker 10 In the World.
43:06 Speaker 11 To Come.
43:07 Speaker 10 To Come.
43:08 Speaker 11 As it is said.
43:09 Speaker 10 As it is said.
43:11 Speaker 11 And your people.
43:13 Speaker 10 And your people.
43:13 Speaker 11 All of them.
43:14 Speaker 10 All of them.
43:16 Speaker 11 Are righteous.
43:17 Speaker 10 Are righteous.
43:19 Speaker 11 Forever.
43:19 Speaker 10 Forever.
43:21 Speaker 11 Shall inherit.
43:22 Speaker 10 Shall inherit.
43:23 Speaker 11 The land.
43:24 Speaker 10 The land.
43:25 Speaker 11 A shoot.
43:26 Speaker 10 A shoot.
43:28 Speaker 11 Of My planting.
43:30 Speaker 10 Of My planting.
43:31 Speaker 11 The work.
43:31 Speaker 10 The work.
43:33 Speaker 11 Of My hands.
43:34 Speaker 10 Of My hands.
43:36 Speaker 11 Yisroel.
43:40 Speaker 10 Yisroel.
43:41 Speaker 11 For He commanded.
43:42 Speaker 10 For He commanded.
43:44 Speaker 11 You.
43:45 Speaker 10 You.
43:46 Speaker 11 You.
43:48 Speaker 10 You.
43:48 Speaker 11 Since then.
43:51 Speaker 10 Since then.
43:51 Speaker 11 And among you.
43:52 Speaker 10 And among you.
43:54 Speaker 11 And among your children.
43:57 Speaker 10 And among your children.
43:57 Speaker 11 To do.
43:58 Speaker 10 To do.
44:00 Speaker 11 My sons.
44:01 Speaker 10 My sons.
44:02 Speaker 11 Who.
44:07 Speaker 10 Who.
44:08 Speaker 11 Did not.
44:08 Speaker 10 Did not.
44:09 Speaker 11 Go up.
44:09 Speaker 10 Go up.
44:10 Speaker 11 And they spoke.
44:11 Speaker 10 And they spoke.
44:12 Speaker 11 The whole back of the neck.
44:14 Speaker 10 The whole back of the neck.
44:15 Speaker 11 Givaton. He brings. He brings. Hello. Hello. He says. He says. All of that. All of that. Come on. Come on. With my hands. With my hands. All of that. All of that. From my head. From my head. Come, come. Come, come. [unclear]. [unclear]. The heavens. The heavens. Flesh and... Flesh and... To every stranger. To every stranger. Give me a blessing. Give me a blessing. And. And. Your chamber. Your chamber. Your home. Your home. Your kingdom. Your kingdom. From the road. From the road. From the sole of your foot. From the sole of your foot. And your stature. And your stature. I toiled. I toiled. I did not say. I did not say. Forever. Forever. I toiled. I toiled. And my staffs. And my staffs. Forever. Forever. I toiled. I toiled. And my staffs. And my staffs. Always. Always. Rabbi. Rabbi. Akiva. Akiva. Said. Said. A student. A student. And a student. And a student. And a student. And this. And this. All of that. All of that. At Shacharis. At Shacharis. Good Torah, [unclear]. Who will [unclear]. Who will [unclear]. And your mouth. And your mouth. All the mockery. All the mockery. The upper ones. The upper ones. At Shacharis. At Shacharis. On the eyes of the parents and grandparents—or, more precisely, at the corners of their eyes—we saw the gratitude, the deep feeling. We are honored to invite the man behind this great undertaking. The prophet Yirmiyahu says: “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your marriage, how you followed Me into the wilderness, into an unsown land.” There were days when Cheder Yiddish, when it began, was in some corner of Ezra Mendel’s [?]. After that it was in the familiar huts, and today we are in a building—but the building is becoming a little cramped for the number of students knocking on the institution’s doors. We have merited, and the director, Rabbi Ben Tzion Wischitzky shlita, has merited, that this year, baruch Hashem, the building suited to such a wonderful cheder, Cheder Oholei Torah, Oholei Menachem, is already standing. We are honored to invite the institution’s director, Rabbi Wischitzky, to offer words of encouragement and blessing for this wonderful day of celebration for the students, the second-grade students.
48:15 Speaker 12 [unclear] Our Rebbe wanted the children to have [unclear]. And this discussion [unclear]. [unclear] The children should continue [unclear]. [unclear] In a sicha, the Rebbe spoke about this, and the sicha provided a foundation. [unclear] Why is a child [unclear]? Just the opposite: because he is a child. [unclear] Not only in understanding. [unclear] When someone says he wants to [unclear] the mind of a Jewish child, [unclear] every Jew. It is given with understanding, with chochmah and binah. They go and adapt the child’s mind to chochmah and binah. [unclear] It may make it easier for him to manage [unclear]. There is no basis at all for that argument. But here, too, this is not just a matter of [unclear]. None of us knows [unclear]. In general, [unclear]. Everything [unclear] is written in the Torah. [unclear] And the Torah says that it is forbidden to teach secular subjects. [unclear] So this analysis does have a point. That is to say, there is no point at all in studying secular subjects. [unclear]
51:08 Speaker 12 A leader. [unclear] Jews do not forget Hakadosh Boruch Hu. [unclear] The Rebbe [unclear] Simchas Torah. That means not disregarding the ways Hakadosh Boruch Hu gave us to succeed, and saying [unclear] about them. [unclear] Studying Tanach abroad. [unclear] New York needs to remember that Hakadosh Boruch Hu created the world five thousand seven hundred and fourteen years ago, and [unclear], and gave us the Torah at the revelation over three thousand years ago. And we encountered Him [unclear]. So precisely [unclear]. What do we see? That this very people [unclear]. This people, the one that does not study ancient branches of knowledge, stands strong. [unclear] Other nations, with all their learning, [unclear]. It is precisely the Jew [unclear] who discovered that [unclear] the halachah and the Torah; and it is precisely the Jews, without any ancient branches of knowledge, who stand firm in their commitment to Torah study. We see this today [unclear]. [unclear] Do we see it today? Something that cannot bring any material benefit. Something, something that has not been proven. The Rebbe expressed himself in this sicha in the strongest possible terms. I do not want to put it into words. I hope and pray [unclear], with Hashem’s help, [unclear] in the world and in Israel. May they always be healthy [unclear]. So, a good Yom Tov to everyone, and inner joy. Mazel tov!
54:07 Speaker 12 Mazel tov!
54:07 Speaker 14 Rabbi Eliezer Brod, rabbi of Karmei Yosef, head of the institute for rabbinic ordination at the Or Simcha yeshiva in Kfar Chabad, and author of the books Darkei Yoreh, will speak to us a little about how to conduct ourselves on this special day of receiving the Torah.
54:29 Speaker 12 The well-known Midrash was mentioned here earlier: Hakadosh Boruch Hu asked for guarantors before giving the Torah. At first, the Jewish people offered their elders and their prophets, but Hakadosh Boruch Hu did not accept them. Only when they said, “Our children will be our guarantors,” did He agree to give the Torah. The Rebbe once explained that when the Jewish people said, “Our elders will be our guarantors,” they meant that people would work, finish working, grow older, retire, and then sit and study Torah. Hakadosh Boruch Hu would not agree to give the Torah on those terms. Then they proposed that a small group would carry the banner of Torah: “Our prophets will be our guarantors.” Hakadosh Boruch Hu did not accept that either. Only when they said, “Our children will be our guarantors”—that Jewish education, Torah study, and the observance of mitzvos would begin specifically with the children, that the Torah is a Torah of life that begins with young children—did Hakadosh Boruch Hu agree to give the Torah. We can take that idea a step further. Being a child is not only a matter of age. Children have another quality, one that I wish we adults had too: the purity, innocence, wholeheartedness, and purity of thought that children have. These are needed to succeed in Torah and to be connected to Torah. This also relates to the sicha Rabbi Shatzky [?] mentioned earlier. The Torah must be pure. “Let the pure come and occupy themselves with the pure.” Purity. Placing “We will do” before “We will hear.” Kabbolas ol, self-nullification, wholeheartedness, innocence—these are the foundation of Torah. To succeed in Torah, we must begin with the children. Later they grow up, become wiser, understand more; that is all well and good. But the innocence and purity children have are especially present in children, and are not always as present in adults. So precisely when children are innocent and pure, when they are ready to accept things as they are, that is, that is
56:41 Speaker 12 the key, the way to succeed in Torah. That is why we must give them a Torah education and begin studying Torah with them at that age. There is a well-known story about a teacher who was proposed to teach the daughters of the Frierdiker Rebbe. On one occasion, the Rebbe mentioned that this also concerned Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, a"h. The teacher argued that young children should not be told about all the miracles and all the stories that seem beyond reason. They were not yet ready for them. When they grew older, they could learn about all the miracles. With young children, he said, everything had to be explained rationally. The Rebbe Rashab said that such a teacher was not fit to teach children. Just the opposite: precisely because children are innocent and pure and accept everything at face value, they should be taught things as they are. They should be told about self-sacrifice, miracles, and wonders. That is the foundation, the provision that will accompany them throughout their lives. This cheder, besides the fact that they study here—and study both nigleh and Chassidus well—is also distinguished by being a cheder conducted entirely in the holy tongue. There are two grandfathers sitting here, one in Jerusalem and one in Bnei Brak. I don’t know what language they study in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, but in Kfar Chabad this is a cheder conducted entirely in the holy tongue, both in its content and in its language. That fact plants foundations that ultimately take root deep, deep, deep in the children’s hearts and accompany them throughout their lives. There is a time to study, a time to gain wisdom, a time to develop understanding. But this innocence, this sacred purity that characterizes this cheder—these are the strong, solid foundations on which one can later build each child’s own edifice and, ultimately, the greater edifice that, with Hashem’s help, he will build. And with your permission, I also want to turn to the subject of Yiddish, which... well, it wasn’t,
58:46 Speaker 12 it wasn’t easy to put this across to the parents. There was a lot of hesitation. And... among the parents, I thought I was the oldest, but I see there are people here older than I am. Still, I’m one of the older fathers. And there are several children. Some children learned Yiddish from the beginning, and some learned less, and you can clearly see the difference. It simply cannot be otherwise—besides the fact that Yiddish is a holy language, though Lashon Hakodesh is the holy tongue—Yiddish was the language the Rebbe spoke. A child—there cannot be a situation in which a Chabad child doesn’t know Yiddish. If you want to listen to the Rebbe’s farbrengens and understand the Rebbe as he said things—the Rebbe’s sichos, the Rebbe’s farbrengens, the whole life of chassidim—how can you do that without Yiddish? Children who did not learn Yiddish when they were young: some of them don’t know Yiddish their entire lives; others struggle and work terribly hard at it; and some know only a half, a third, or a quarter of it. At home, we have been fortunate, boruch Hashem. I want to tell you a little story from my home. A few months ago, I wanted to tell my wife something without the children understanding. So I said it to her in Yiddish. Then my son jumped up and said, “I understood everything—everything you said.” We said to him, “Well, what did we say?” And he repeated everything I had said and really had understood it all. Suddenly it struck me: wait a minute, he’s beginning to—the child understands Yiddish, the child understands Yiddish. And really, we have to thank Rabbi Yitzchaki for his insistence. It was not easy for him, and it truly isn’t easy. Nevertheless, he insisted and continues to insist. Looking back now, I can see that his work is bearing fruit. The children really do understand Yiddish, and they will understand Yiddish, and they will be able to study the Rebbe’s sichos and watch the Rebbe’s farbrengens,
1:00:34 Speaker 12 and understand them as the Rebbe said them, in the Rebbe’s own language. So first of all, thank you very much to Rabbi Yitzchaki for the Yiddish as well. I want to conclude. We heard earlier that the children are already chassidim, G-d-fearing, and learned, but they can be even more so, and with Hashem’s help they will be. I want to conclude with a saying about children: “Who are the kings? The rabbis.” They are the true kings. Regarding a king, the Torah says, “And it shall be, when he sits upon his royal throne.” The commentators ask: Why does it say “when he sits,” with a prefix meaning “as”? Why doesn’t it simply say “while he sits upon his royal throne”? One explanation is that when a king first sits on the throne, he is full of goodwill and eager to act, to help, and not to get caught up in politics and calculations. He genuinely wants to help his people. That is how he is when he first sits on the throne. What happens afterward? Things don’t always turn out exactly as he originally intended. Life takes its course. So this is the wish for the king: may he always be as he was when he first sat upon his royal throne—pure, without calculations, truly wanting to do good. We bless the king that he should remain that way always. So I want to bless the children, the young scholars, that they should retain ... the Torah ... the sweetness and the faith and the ... throughout all their days... I also want to bless the principal teachers, Rabbi Fishman and Rabbi Neimar. For me, this isn’t the first celebration of theirs I’ve had the privilege to attend, and they never tire; they only go from strength to strength. I bless them with success and blessing in all their affairs, with great success in educating the children and in their personal lives. And I want to bless the administration again. The calm atmosphere of the cheder really is something. I have several children in the cheder, and I often think to myself that to hear everything each child has to tell from cheder—whether a Torah thought, the weekly parsha, a chassidic niggun, a chassidic story, or a chassidic maamar—we would have to sit for an entire night before Shabbos to hear them all. There is truly tremendous effort invested here, and wonderful teachers. So this is the place to thank all the teachers and the entire administration of the cheder once again. May Hakadosh Boruch Hu help us receive the Torah with joy and inwardly. May we merit to see the Rebbe here before Shavuos ... and may we all be able to say to the Rebbe—and surely be able to say it with these children: “See the children we have raised.”
1:02:51 Speaker 12 Rejoice and be glad in the joy of Torah, and give honor to the Torah. Rejoice and be glad in the joy of Torah, and give honor to the Torah. Hey yai, yidili maidili maidi lididi di li la la la la, hey. Yidili viba dubi vai lididi di. Rejoice and be glad in the joy of Torah, and give honor to the Torah. Rejoice and be glad in the joy of Torah, and give honor to the Torah. Hey yai, yididi maidi lididi di li di li di di di, mai hey yi di mi viya yi di di ai di da. Hey hey!
1:03:32 Speaker 15 Rejoice and celebrate on Simchas Torah, and give honor to the Torah. Rejoice and celebrate on Simchas Torah, and give honor to the Torah. Hey yai, yidili maidili maidi lididi di li la la la la, hey. Yidili viba dubi vai lididi di. Rejoice and celebrate on Simchas Torah, and give honor to the Torah. Rejoice and celebrate on Simchas Torah, and give honor to the Torah. Hey yai, yididi maidi lididi di li di li di di di, mai hey yi di mi viya yi di di ai di da. Hey hey!