What about our boys? I was sure they would feel out of it. I was wrong,
SUDDEN SILENCE Binyomin Dovid starting speaking. It may have been the first time in the whole evening that the room was quiet
A nother note from school: With praise and thanks to Hashem Yisbarach we invite you to the siyum of the eighth grade….
I wasn’t sure if it was worth going. The three branches of a well-known cheder in Jerusalem were celebrating their eighth-grade graduations by making a joint siyum on two masechtos: Maseches Rosh Hashanah and Maseches Makkos.
My son Binyomin Dovid is also in eighth grade but he made no siyum and nor did anyone in his class. His class. A “special” class for special kids — Down syndrome. Cute? Lovable? Yeah well wait until they turn into teenagers. Anyway they made no siyum. Not a masechta not a perek not a sefer in Navi. They did finish a few parshiyos in Chumash but for the past few months their rebbi was so busy trying to get them all into an appropriate setting for next year that somehow a siyum didn’t happen.
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