Decked in sparkling crowns, faces lit up with ebullient smiles, 170 first graders embarked on a lifelong journey of reading, translating and learning our holy Torah from inside the timeless text. In separate events for boys and girls with their families, the children performed for their beaming parents, joyfully accepted their very own Chumash, and got to peek inside a Torah to see the small alef in the possuk of Vayikra, traditionally the first possuk learned in school. May our children always feel as excited to learn as they did on that day!
Photos by Menachem Serraf and Mendel Misholuvin
