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Tzivos Hashem Canada receives donation
Posted by admin in Jewish studies, Religion, School, Torah on February 16th, 2010
Moishe Alexander contributes $1800 to Tzivos Hashem Canada
Founder of Tzivos Hashem
Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, was sought after by top political figures, successful business people and the finest professionals for his sage advice on matters of grave importance. He was mentor and spiritual leader to hundreds of thousands of everyday people in all corners of the globe, no one was turned away. Yet, amidst his awesome schedule, the Rebbe busied himself with the lives of children, and set out to harness their great potential.
With a vision that has been unfolding and mushrooming for twenty years, the Rebbe called for the establishment of Tzivos Hashem in the fall of 1980. Children were a top priority for the Rebbe. Rather, each Jewish child was a top priority for the Rebbe. From his vantage point as world leader and spiritual giant, he understood the intrinsic promise held by children, and he founded Tzivos Hashem to cultivate and nurture them so that they could grow to be strong and healthy in body, mind and soul.
The Rebbe himself would hold communal meetings, which he called rallies, with thousands of children at a time. And it was the Rebbe himself who spoke to the children directly and put great responsibilities on their shoulders. Not only did the Rebbe see children as the promise of a better tomorrow, the Rebbe saw children as the promise for a better today.
Judaism stresses that chinuch, Jewish education, should begin at an early age to prepare for adulthood. The Rebbe emphasized that not only are children’s mitzvos for the sake of practicing for the future, but that their mitzvos, now, while they are young, have significance in and of themselves. Through his confidence in them and his expectations, the Rebbe actually confirmed a child’s self esteem and challenged children to use their inborn strengths and talents for good.
The Tzivos Hashem relationship did not flow in just one direction, of commander to commandee. The soldiers of Tzivos Hashem gave nachas to the Rebbe as he watched them increase their mitzvos and perform them with greater care. And it was the children who were able to identify with and express the Rebbe’s passion to bring the world to peace and goodness, as they would sing for him their theme song: We want Moshiach Now!
Tzivos hashem chanuka play
Mosdos Ohr Yacov Lelov Y-M, Jerusalem, Israel
Posted by admin in Jewish studies, School on February 16th, 2010
Moishe Alexander supports Mosdos Ohr Yacov Lelov
Rav Shimon Nosson Nota Biederman. Born in Tiveria to Rav Yaakov Yitzchak, the Admor of Lelov, a descendent of the first Lelover Rebbe, Rav Dovid, who himself was a talmid of the Chozeh of Lublin. When his father was niftar in 1981, Rav Shimon Nasan Nota became Admor and opened Mosdos Ohr Yaakov in his father’s memory; these included kollelim and chessed organizations. (1930-2004)
Netivot Chaim, Kiryat Melachi, Israel
Posted by admin in Israel, Jewish studies, School on February 11th, 2010
Donation given by Moishe Alexander to Netivot Chaim
YBA Netivot Chaim aims to provide a Torani educational option for boys from northern Jerusalem and nearby settlements. Pisgat Zev is the largest neighborhood in Jerusalem with a working class population that resembles the socioeconomic level of a development town. The school places an
YBA Netivot Chaim maintains an open registration policy, which means that many students come from traditional, rather than religious families, and that a high proportion cannot afford to pay tuition and fees. As a result, the yeshiva has a greater need for scholarship funding than other YBA schools to maintain YBA’s high educational standards. Matriculation tracks include biology, computers, art, geography and Land of Israel studies.
Due to budgetary constraints, the yeshiva reduced the number of teaching hours this year to just six hours per day, and opened an afternoon Beit Midrash program staffed, in part, by rabbinical students studying in a Kollel Yeshiva located within the yeshiva’s building. Students volunteer every week by delivering food to the needy, working with the Citizen’s Alert Patrols, and visiting the sick and elderly in the community, as well as engaging in outreach work to help bridge the gap between observant and non-observant neighborhood residents.
Some of the Yeshiva’s most urgent needs:
1. Scholarship Fund (for increase of 2 hours per day) – $125,000
2. Beit Midrash furniture and Torah library – $50,000
3. Upgrading of Educational Environment and Landscaping – $50,000
4. Upgraded of Computer Laboratory – $20,000