A group of well respected rabbonim will address the Flatbush community TOMORROW, Sunday, December 10th, discussing techniques for getting through to teens in today’s turbulent and challenge-laden world.
The evening will be hosted by Yeshiva Ateres Shmuel of Waterbury whose track record with teenage bochurim speaks for itself, taking in students at all levels and infusing each one with self confidence and a love of yiddishkeit.
“The Ponovzher Rav once said that a yasom is someone who has no parents and an orphaned nation is one who has no children,” said Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff, Morah D’asra of Agudath Israel Bais Binyomin, who will be speaking at the event. “Our biggest challenge and privilege is to be michanech our children with the geshmak of yiddishkeit, a mahalach that Mesivta Ateres Shmuel warmly embodies and embraces.”
Rabbi Lieff is just one of the featured speakers at the symposium, which is open to both men and women, and will be held at 8:30 PM at the Agudah of Avenue L. Other well known figures who will be offering their insights on chinuch for teens are Rabbi Aharon Kaufman, Rosh HaYeshiva, Yeshiva Ateres Shmuel, Rabbi Elya Brudny, Rosh Yeshiva at the Mirrer Yeshiva and Rabbi Daniel Kalish, Menahel of Mesivta Ateres Shmuel.
Among the topics to be addressed is understanding the difference between educating younger and older children.
“With younger children everything is about rules and regulation and it has to be that way,” explained Rabbi Kaufman. “That approach works well because in elementary school, children are very accepting and they have fewer outside influences. But as they get older, children want to become more independent so at that stage, the key is understanding that chinuch becomes relationship based and not rule based.”
Now located in Durham, Connecticut on a new campus that encompasses more than 55 acres, the Waterbury yeshiva’s mesivta program attracted numerous esteemed guests over the past year including Rav Yaakov Hillel, Rav Reuven Feinstein, Rav Binyomin Eisenberger, Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel and Rabbi Zvi Bloom.
I pray some /all of theses speakers say that the teens do NOT necessarily all have to wear black hats, black shoes, white shirts, must not go to college,etc, but that they should feel free to express their own individuality in their own ways, in accordance with halacha-not yeshivish shtick.
No they will say you must be a conformist otherwise you’re a goy or your yetzer hora won
shtik??!! can you clarify what yeshivah ‘shtik’ your against?
is it like a boucher may come with earrings , and nosering yankees out fit?
Yes ber….it’s all or nothing
yes, it starts with little (cracks) and ends with all…pirtze koreh lganev
The ikar is love love love love love love love love love love love love. That can do kol davar issur shebatorah, but as long as you show love, everything is muttar. They are our new role models and hero’s. Hurray. Times have changed. OTD is in. Yiras shomayim is out. Hurray.
The Beatles were bad after all. Rebbe was right again