Yud Av...

... after a long 9 days and a fast we took the bochurim for an exciting trip of outdoor laser tag, biking, and to finish the day we went swimming and had a much needed BBQ, a Special thanks to our photographers Benny Sufrin and Menashe New.

Every Shabbos morning...

... for Seder Chassidus the bochurim learn a nice short מאמר which is connected to the weekly Parsha, then there is time in the afternoon when the bochurim can review the מאמר and then repeat it over verbatim to his teacher, those who get tested receive a reward during the week, this week they got treated to Shawarma.

Part 5: Sunday morning ...

...we started our day nice and early with the Kotel tunnel tours, followed by a tour of עיר דוד, after that we packed up and headed out to the Yad Vashem museum where we split up into 2 groups and we got the tour of the museum with the aid of amazing tour guides that gave the museum a whole new experience, after that we headed out to Me'ah Shearim where the bochurim got to buy souvenirs and buy a delicious dinner, finally to end our trip we headed back onto the busses and stopped by the 770 located in רמת שלמה to daven מעריב to end a eventful weekend in Yerushalaim.

Part 4: After the group photo ...

... by the Kotel we gave the bochurim the option to either go on a city wall tour or to Pantry Packers (Pantry Packers is a newly opened מוסד under Colel Chabad and ran by Rabbi Menachem Traxler, it is located in a warehouse 10 minutes away from the Kotel, it is where volunteer's can give an hour of their time to help pack food for poor families in Eretz Yisroel), after the trips ended we had a beautiful pizza מלוה מלכה, and then off to bed.

Part 3: Shabbos morning...

...we woke up the Bochurim then we learned chassidus with danishes which were purchased in Me'ah Shearim, followed by שחרית by the Kotel, after Davening we returned to eat סעודת שבת where we also had the privilege to have Rabbi YY Jacobson say a few words for the Bochurim, after סעודת שבת some of the devoted staff took the bochurim on a walking tour of the new city of Yerushalaim (Me'ah Shearim, The Park of Independance, Mamilla,), then we davened מנחה at the צמח צדק shul, after that we walked to the Kotel to daven מעריב and hear הבדלה, then we gave the bochurim some time to take private pictures of themselves by the Kotel, then we took a group photo by the Kotel (which will be posted at another time), after taking the group photo we bumped into the Canadian team who are playing in the Israel Maccabiah games.

Part 2: After leaving Latrun....

... we went to the Bar Kochba Caves followed by קבר רחל and after that we finally made our way into Yerushalaim where we stayed at the Diaspora Yehsiva (located right by קבר דוד) which is a 10 minute walk from the Kotel, there we unpacked ate lunch and got ready for shabbos and then we got a walking tour of the old city of yerushalaim followed by קבלת שבת by the Kotel.

שבת נחמו בירושלים part 1:

We started our descent to ירושלים with a stop at Yad La-Shiryon (The Armored Corps Memorial Site and Museum at Latrun), for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yad_La-Shiryon

Regards from Jerusalem!

FEATURING MONDAY!!!

Pictures to be posted on the past week and the Jerusalem trip

Good Shabbos!