“Hey, you guys! You wanna play adju’im? We’ll see who’s the best!” The problem was that we had no idea what he was talking about,Yosef Chaim’s Hole in One,“Hey, you guys! You wanna play adju’im? We’ll see who’s the best!” The problem was that we had no idea what he was talking about
S ummer for us means “gogo’im” season. (For anyone who doesn’t know what gogo’im are they’re apricot pits!) And by us they’re the hottest item around — you just can’t get enough of them! Everyone has their special “gogo’im box ” a shoe box or a plastic jar with holes cut out of it to aim at and every recess time all you’ll see around the playground is just lots of groups of boys playing gogo’im! What every boy wants more than anything is to collect the most gogo’im in the Talmud Torah.
But one day when we got to the kitah we forgot all about gogo’im. Rav Rachamim had a surprise announcement for us.
“Next week we are having visitors from Yerushalayim! We’ve decided that the annual Mishnah quiz usually held at the Or HaTorah Talmud Torah in Yerushalayim will be held this year in Tzfat at our Talmud Torah! It’s a great honor and I’m sure you will all make our Talmud Torah proud of you.”
Hmm! That was bad news and good news. Bad news because we had been looking forward to the trip to Yerushalayim but good news that we would be the hosts instead of the guests. When you’re the guest you feel you have to ask permission for everything. Now it would be our turn to be the hosts and give ourselves a few airs; Yerushalayim might be the holy city but Tzfat is pretty holy too!
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