Rav Bender correctly and properly realigned everyone’s perspective on the day’s event
The excitement in the room was palpable. It was an event marking the beginning of the learning of Mishnayos for the third-grade boys at Yeshiva Darchei Torah.
Parents and grandparents were all in attendance celebrating this son’s or this grandson’s first immersion into Torah shebe’al peh. Mothers were bursting with pride as they watched their sons standing on stage about to receive their first Mishnayos. Fathers became teary-eyed as they observed their sons following the path of the Torah, and recalled the special day when they, too, received their first Mishnayos.
The grandparents were also shepping nachas of their grandchildren’s achievements.
Rav Yaakov Bender, rosh yeshivah of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, presided over the momentous occasion.
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