Crown Heights Students Compete at Tournament

50 seventh graders from Crown Heights’ Yeshivos competed against each other in the grand Halichos Olam Chidon, testing their knowledge of the laws of Tefilin in front of an audience of parents, teachers, community members and fellow students.

Halichos Olam is a program for seventh graders to encourage and guide them in the study of Hilichos Tefillin, based on the sefer Shvach Yokor authored by Rabbi Shmuel Hurwitz. The program was established by the Igud Menahalei Yeshivos of Crown Heights for boys of Oholei Torah and United Lubavitch Yeshiva of Crown Street, with the goal to expand the knowledge of Halacha and Yiras Shamayim of the talmidim in our community.

Eligibility to be a participant in the Chidon is through receiving above an 80% on written tests. Each boy receives a monetary reward. For 90% the reward is greater.

The event was chaired by Rabbi Hershel Lustig – Dean of Oholei Menachem who also serves as coordinator of the program.

The audience members were astounded at the ability of the participants to quote the Halocho almost verbatim.

The winners of the Chidon were: 1st place – Shuky Avtzon, Yisroel Antian, Michoel Franklin and Yehuda Leib Telsner. 2nd place – Yisroel B. Abramowitz, Mordechai Levilev, Michoel Rivkin and Mendel Spielman. 3rd place – Zelik Newman, Chesky Raskin, Yosef Schmerling and Zushy Vigler.

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