Monday, April 28, 2008
Just another NCSY miracle
A few years ago I started a learning program at the NJ NCSY drop in center (later to be renamed Elana’s Place). The Hemshech program gave us funding to pair up mentors with public school students in Chavrusot and I was all over it!! That first year, we ended up attracted several wonderful girls (seven) who all fell in love with learning and each one is an individual miracle by themselves. One girl’s parents could not bring her so, I went to Dalia’s house to pick her up and therefore she was the last to arrive. We had many more girls come to learn than boys (big surprise) and I no longer had any girl Chavrusot so I asked her to learn with a Yeshiva Bochur who had came by that first week as an extra hand just in case and was also without a Chavrusa named Matis. After that week, we were able to straighten out the genders and match chavrusot more appropriately. Needless to say, I forgot this part of Dalia’s story until I attended her engagement party. She proceeded to tell me that the first time she ever met her choson Matis was as her chavrusa that one time… The Flame Is Well Alive!! (see the formal announcement in the Mazel Tov section of the newsletter this week).
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