Our child prodigy sat assuredly as the names of the various awards were called
The eight-year-old boy sat confidently in his seat. He knew he would win the most coveted prize: a pair of Radio Shack walkie-talkies.
His camp rebbi, Rav Moshe Chaim, had made memorizing yedios klalios the focus of the summer’s learning program. The boys were encouraged to learn by heart the names of all 24 seforim of Tanach, as well as the names of Shishah Sidrei Mishnah. Our young friend had not only mastered all of that, but he had even memorized the names of all 63 masechtos of Mishnayos!
Therefore, our child prodigy sat assuredly as the names of the various awards were called.
Rav Moshe Chaim took the microphone and added a cursory caveat: The grand prize would be awarded not just for excellence in yedios klalios, but also for exemplary middos tovos.
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