Photos: Cheder at the Ohel Parades on Lag Ba’omer

Hashem seemed to have stopped the rain just in time for the Cheder at the Ohel Lag Ba’omer Parade on Thursday morning.

It was Cheder at the Ohel’s 2nd annual Lag B’omer Parade, elevating the pavement in Valley Stream, Long Island.

With the streets blocked off and a police escort, grades pre 1A through 6th grade participated, with posters encouraging Torah and mitzvos for Jews and the 7 mitzvos b’nai Noach for gentiles.They were lead by a van playing lively chassidish music. The 6th graders also had a marching band.

The parade route went through part of breathtaking Valley Stream state park. Passersby could be seen smiling at the scene of the sweet cheder boys. The boys took a break in the middle of marching to stop and have a short rally, complete with the 12 psukim.

Back at Cheder, the festivities continued with a chassidish farbrengen, where 6th graders Meir Deren and Schneur Deren gave over the Hayom Yom and a devar Torah about Lag Ba’omer.