Forty students of the prestigious international institution “Tomhei Tmimim yeshiva-ktana Ukraine”, where future rabbis, leaders of Jewish communities in many countries of the world study, had the opportunity to spend a whole week in New York and celebrate the anniversary of Yud Shvat – the 75th anniversary of the key event of Jewish life of our generation – the Day of the departure of the previous Sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak, and the assumption of the title of Rebbe by Rabbi Menachem-Mendel Schneerson.
“This is a very important spiritual experience for the children, students of our yeshiva, to spend a whole week in New York, visiting holy places and participating in Yud Shvat events,” Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Glick, director of Tomhei Tmimim Yeshiva-Ktana Ukraine, told our website, – The children attend “Seven Seventy”, ohel of our Rebbe, participate in farbrengen and meetings, communicate with Hasidim who came to New York for Yud Shvat and at the same time continue intensive classes, because their mentors went with them: Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Eliyahu Hefer, Rabbi Moshe Neuman and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Feldman. This is not an excursion, it’s not a trip for fun, it’s part of the process of education and learning, this experience will enrich and inspire them and give them a very important spiritual experience.”
The Tomhei Tmimim Yeshiva Ktana Ukraine is attended by children from different countries, who study in depth the entire cycle of Jewish knowledge at a high level. This educational institution was founded thanks to Yisroel Hersh (Igor Alfredovich) Chervonenko in honor of his father Alfred ben Gregory in 2013 and has gained wide international recognition in a short time. The Board of Directors includes: Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky of Dnipro and the region, Rabbi Meir Tzvi Stambler, Chairman of the Council of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine, and Rabbi Raphael Rutman, Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine.
“We are very grateful to Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Glick and Rabbi Eliyahu Hefer who organized this trip,” said Chief Rabbi of Dnipro and the region Shmuel Kaminetsky, “this participation of children and their teachers in Yud Shvat is a very important event, which was made possible thanks to the help of a member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Community of Dnipro, Reb Natan Zolotarevsky and, of course, it was supported by the Board of Directors of the yeshiva and the Jewish Community of Dnipro. Our community is proud of “Tomhei Tmimim yeshiva-ktana Ukraine” and is confident that its students will make a significant contribution to the future of the Jewish people on a global scale, become worthy messengers of the Rebbe and strengthen the spread of the light of Hasidism”.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Glick is also very inspired by this trip and the work of the yeshiva in general: “I want to say a huge thank you to our directors, our teachers and those who help our yeshiva – such as Reb Natan Zolotarevsky, like Reb Binyamin Demchenko, who supports the ongoing work and many others, and above all and most of all to our wonderful Jewish Community of Dnipro and its leader – Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky”.
