“The Shtempel Of A Dirshu Yeshivaman!”

By Chaim Gold

Thousands of Lomdim led By Gedolei Yisroel Participate in Dirshu Convention

Rav Aharon Dovid Goldberg

Rav Dovid Hofstedter

Rav Hillel David

Rav Yeruchem Olshin

Rav Mechel Steinmetz speaks on Motzaei Shabbos

Rav Shlomo Cynamon, Rav Eytan Feiner, and Rav Chaim Mordechai Ausband at panel discussion

Rav Shlomo Feivel Schustal

“Every yeshiva leaves an indelible stamp upon its talmidim. You can tell what roshem the yeshiva makes by observing the talmidim of that Yeshiva. Dirshu is also a yeshiva! It does not have a brick-and-mortar building, but it is a yeshiva! What special imprint does the Dirshu Yeshiva leave on each of its talmidim? The answer is that a lomed Dirshu always has a Gemara in his hand! Wherever he is! Yes! The shtempel of a Dirshu yeshivaman, is the consistent Gemara in his hand. Whether he is visiting a doctor’s office or is at work; whether it is bein hasedorim or he is on a bus. A lomed Dirshu grabs every extra minute possible to learn more, to review more, to gain more clarity in his daily learning! That is the imprint of the Dirshu Yeshiva!” exclaimed HaGaonHaRav Shlomo Feivel Schustal, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Gedolah Tiferes Yerachmiel, during the shaloshseudos at the recent Dirshu Convention held on Shabbos Parashas Terumah.

In truth, shalosh seudos was but one highlight of a Shabbos full of remarkable spiritual delights and plateaus.

Over the course of Shabbos Kinnus Olam Hatorah, as the Dirshu convention is called, the many hundreds of participants had the tremendous zechus to hear divrei Torah and guidance from luminaries such as HaGaonHaRav Hillel David, shlita, Rav Kehillas Yeshivas Shaarei Torah, HaGaon HaRav Yeruchem Olshin, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha of Lakewood, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Sorotzkin, shlita, Rosh YeshivasTelshe and Mesivta of Lakewood; HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Feivel Schustal, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Yerachmiel; HaGaon HaRav Yechiel Michel Steinmetz, shlita, the Skverer Dayan of Boro Park, HaGaonHaRav Chaim Mordechai Ausband, shlita, Rosh Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo; HaGaon HaRav Dovid Goldberg, shlita, Rosh Yeshivas Telshe, Rav Dovid Hofstedter, shlita, Nasi of Dirshu, among many other prominent rabbanim and Roshei Yeshiva.

Dirshu’s Kinnus Olam Hatorah is a unique convention. At a Dirshu convention, outer appearances and outer trappings mean very little. The sight that meets your eye is a Yid with a shtreimel in animated conversation with his Sephardic brother about a Tosafos in Masechta Pesachim in the Amud HaYomi, that he found difficult; one seat over is a Litvish Yid heatedly talking with a Bobover Chossid about an interesting Biur Halacha in Chelek Daled of Mishnah Berurah that they have both been learning in the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha program.

This is the natural rhythm of a Shabbos Dirshu. It begins before licht bentschen and continues straight. At any time, in between the programming, whether it is at 1:00 in the morning or 6:00 a.m. mere hours after the beautiful oneg Shabbos ended, lomdei Dirshu were found learning, in the lobby, in the large beis midrashconsecrated for limud haTorah! A resounding kol Torah reverberated throughout the hotel, throughout the Shabbos.

The Iyun Shiurim

Among the many highlights of every Dirshu Convention are the iyun shiurim delivered by Gedolei Torah. After the seudah on Friday night, Rav Shlomo Feivel Schustal delivered a shiur about the prohibition of making images. On Shabbos morning before Shacharis, Dirshu’s Nasi, Rav Dovid Hofstedter delivered an iyun shiurrevolving around the arbah kossos on the night of the Seder.

Rav Chaim Mordechai Ausband, Rosh Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo, delivered an iyun shiur related to the chiyuv of hearing Parashas Zachor.

Watching Rav Ausband deliver the shiur while energetically and excitedly fending off many questions in a spirited give-and-take by the lomdei Dirshu who were interjecting questions from all over Shas or obscure Tosafos in attempts to question his thesis, was an unbelievable sight. It was a clear rischa d’Oraysah as could be seen from the intent expressions on the faces of both Rav Ausband and the lomdim who were questioning him. Their faces did not reflect a sense of being upset or fighting! Rather, they were glowing with an ethereal joy gained from gaining clarity in the heiligeh words of the Torah.

Grand Melaveh Malkah: A Celebration of Torah

It is almost impossible to imagine how a Shabbos full of climaxes could possibly conclude with the greatest climax of all! And yet, that is just what the melaveh malkah was!

During the melaveh malkah, the assemblage was treated to a breathtaking array of da’as Torah espoused by some of today’s senior Gedolei Yisrael. The chairman of the evening, Reb Naftoli Friedman, introduced HaGaon HaRav Hillel David, shlita, who devoted his remarks to the chinuch impact made on one’s children when a person is a member of Dirshu.

Dirshu members were then treated to short remarks from Ambassador Mark Walker, President Trump’s personal envoy on combating antisemitism and religious intolerance throughout the world.

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Rav Dovid Goldberg: The Dirshu Yungeleit Love Torah And Torah Loves Them Back!

Rav Dovid Goldberg’s remarks focused on the importance of chashivus haTorah. He quoted Rav Yisroel Eliyahu Weintraub in saying that greatness is not dependent on how much Torah one knows but on how much a person appreciates the Torah, how much he is machshiv the Torah, how much he makes Torah a priority of his life!

Rav Goldberg expressed his deep sense of admiration for the lomdei Dirshu. “Wherever I went throughout Shabbos, I saw bli ayin ha’ra, 1,500 people sitting and learning! Wherever I went I saw mesikushaTorah! What I saw over the course of this Shabbos is that the Torah is a living organism! It pays back those who love it! When a person learns with mesiras nefesh there is no limit to what he can accomplish! The Dirshu yungeleit love Torah and Torah loves them back!

Rav Yechiel Michel Steinmetz: Those Who Learn In Dirshu’s Programs Are The Happiest People

The Skverer Dayan, Rav Yechiel Michel Steinmetz, was introduced as a person who is part of the DNA of Dirshu.

In his remarks, Rav Steinmetz related a story about a wealthy man who came to Rav Aharon Kotler and asked him, “What is the difference between my olam haba’ah and your olam haba’ah? I get olam haba’ahbecause I support learning and the Rosh Yeshiva gets olam haba’ah because he learns Torah. So, what is the difference between us?”

Rav Aharon answered, “Perhaps there’s no difference between our olam haba’ah but there is a tremendous difference in our olam ha’zeh! I am the one who has the greatest olam ha’zeh! There is no greater pleasure in olam ha’zeh than being in Torah learning!”

“Those who learn in Dirshu’s programs,” Rav Steinmetz exclaimed, “are the happiest people in this world! Let’s not even talk about the Next World!”

The warm words of Rabbi Steinmetz were followed by the entire assemblage bursting into spirited song together with the orchestra led by Reb Hershy Weinberger and Avrumi Berko Productions. Palpable joy pulsated through the room as the nearly 2,000 people danced together celebrating their deep, abiding connection with accountable Torah learning.

Rav Dovid Hofstedter: “Only Mesiras Nefesh!”

A hush settled over the room as the Nasi of Dirshu, Rav Dovid Hofstedter got up to address the assemblage. He looked around and emotionally referred to every member of the assemblage collectively as Mishpachas Dirshu, one big family of people dedicated with heart and soul to learning, to knowing Torah and to being connected with Torah.

“Rav Elchonon Wasserman explains that there are two types of gezeiros placed by Hashem upon the Yidden during difficult times. When it is a gezeirah on the guf, the answer is that we have to engage in teshuvah. When, however, there is a gezeirah on kiyum hamitzvos, that is a gezeirah that comes from Satan, and the only way to overcome such a gezeirah is through mesiras nefesh.

“From here we see that the primary response to a decree regarding ruchniyus is mesiras nefesh.

“Amalek was only able to have power over Klal Yisrael when they slacked off in their limud haTorah. The only way that the Bnei Yisrael were able to overcome Amalek was through the mesiras nefesh of MosheRabbeinu!”

With great sadness in his voice, Rav Hofstedter continued, “I don’t have to tell you that Amalek is attacking! Who would believe that in such a short time after the Holocaust, after the churban of Europe, when there are still among us a few of those precious shearis hapleitah with numbers on their arms, that in the highest echelons of society, in academia, there are those who shamelessly deny the existence of the Holocaust?! This is ma’aseh Amalek! The chutzpah, the sheker! Who would believe that a mere eighty years after the Holocaust, Jews across the world would feel unsafe?

“Shemiras hamitzvos is under attack in many places! We are under attack from without and within! InEretz Yisrael, our precious Yeshiva bachurim are being thrown into jail!

In a voice full of pain, Rav Hofstedter exclaimed, “Sadly, Amalek is still among us! This generation’s weapon of mass destruction is social media. Tragically, on social media they cast aspersions on our wonderful yeshivos. I even found myself in the crosshairs! I was told that I am threatening the security of the State of Israel because I am taking boys who would be good soldiers and turning them into chareidim!

“The Olam HaTorah is under attack! Our response must be, ‘Lech kenos es kol haYehudim. Tzumu ailei sheloshim yom! Only mesiras nefesh will save us!”

“This Shabbos is called ‘Shabbos Kinnus Olam HaTorah’. Only when we, the Olam HaTorah, come together and make all kinds of new initiatives to ensure the blossoming of Torah will we be able to overcome the Amalek of our times!

Only with mesiras nefesh! Only with going that extra mile for learning, adding that extra hour or two in our day to make sure that Torah is our life, ki heim chayeinu! We must avail ourselves of every opportunity to learn Torah, to seek Hashem day and night. Dirshu Hashem v’uzo, bakshu fanav tamid! We have to seek out Hashem tamid, at all times of the day and night. ‘Ma ahavti sorasecha kol hayom hi sichasi.’

“Just as Moshe Rabbeinu told Yehoshua, ‘bechar lanu anashim, v’tzei l’milchama—pick for yourself people and go to war,’ so too must we! This is not about ‘doing the daf’. It is not about ‘kol haTorah kulo in twenty minutes’! It is ki heim chayeinu! It is about availing ourselves of every opportunity that we have to learn Torah.

Let us leave here with a commitment. We will fight this battle b’lev venefesh, with mesiras nefesh until Hashem will look down on His children and say, ‘Enough! It is time to go home!’ He will finally say, ‘Kinderlach, kum shoin aheim. Bimheira biyameinu!”

Rav Yeruchem Olshin: Mishpachas Dirshu Goes Above And Beyond

When Rav Yeruchem Olshin, Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha of Lakewood, rose to speak, he looked around benevolently at the assemblage, his expression one of deep love and admiration. He began by saying, “When Rav Boruch Ber Leibowitz, Rosh Yeshiva of Kamenetz, would get up to address his yeshiva, he didn’t address them as talmidei or bnei hayeshiva. Rather, he addressed them as mevakshei Hashem. And I,” Rav Yeruchem continued, “I want to say a few words to the chashuve mivakshei Hashem of Mishpachas Dirshu.”

“The Chovos Halevavos,” Rav Olshin explained, “says that this is the difference between a Yid who is doing just what he is able to do and a Yid who is going above and beyond his ability to push himself. A Yid must go above and beyond, must push himself. When he does, he is endowed with the ability and the intellect to do above and beyond what he originally thought he could do.”

With great passion Rav Olshin concluded, “I want to say something about my dear friend, Rav Dovid Hofstedter and the entire kehillah hakedoshah of Dirshu. They go above and beyond anything that could be considered the norm! Those participating in Dirshu’s programs come home after a difficult day in yeshiva or at work and that they still have to chazer and chazer over and over again. They have to master large amounts of Torah, understand it and be able to be tested on it. They are only able to do that because they go above and beyond their abilities. They are therefore endowed from Above with kochos and abilities that they may not have had until now.

Shabbos At The Dirshu Convention

As the kedushah of Shabbos slowly descended upon the Armon Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut, throngs of talmidei chachamim, made their way to the large-heated tent especially erected so that davening could be done in a hallowed atmosphere conducive to tefillah.

Following Minchah, a fascinating question and answer session was held with Rav Yechiel Michel Steinmetz, the Skverer Dayan of Boro Park. After a beautifully moving Kabbolas Shabbos led by the well-known chazzan, Reb Isaac Honig, and the Shira Choir, Rav Yitzchok Sorotzkin delivered a passionate address.

One of the most inspirational moments of the convention was the shalosh seudos where the men joined together to be treated to words of chizuk and hisorerus given by. Rav Shlomo Feivel Schustal, Rav Yehoshua Abba Busel, Rav of the High Street Shul in Lakewood and a R”M at Beth Medrash Govoha, Rav Yitzchok Zalman Gips Rav of Beis Medrash Birchas Avrohom of Boro Park and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Mivakshei Torah, and Rav Zev Smith.

Elevated Dancing Of Hakaras Hatov

The conclusion of the melaveh malkah, the culmination of the Shabbos, cannot possibly be described in an article. One can give over the main message of each derashah in an article, but one simply cannot, with dry ink and paper, describe the dancing after the melaveh malkah. The thousands who danced with such elevation, such dveikus, that lasted into the wee hours of the morning; the way they came to dance with Rav Dovid Hofstedter, the simcha that emanated from them and the contagious enthusiasm that permeated the hall was indescribable. It was a dancing of simcha, of dveikus and of deep hakaras hatov to Dirshu and for what it has done to their lives. 

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{Dirshu Convention 2026 Ambassador Mark Walker

Mark Walker, Trump’s Ambassador To Fight Antisemitism Addresses Dirshu Convention

By Yosef Sosnow

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It is no secret that antisemitism has reared its ugly head throughout the world. It is not an exaggeration to say that the overt antisemitism being witnessed worldwide has not been seen since the 1930’s.

As a son and son-in-law of Holocaust survivors, Rav Dovid Hofstedter views this epidemic of antisemitism with great concern.

Over the past months Rav Hofstedter has become acquainted with Ambassador Mark Walker, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom who served as a U.S. Representative for North Carolina’s 6th district from 2015 to 2021.

The Ambassador’s mission entrusted to him by President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio is to combat rising global antisemitism and protect faith groups from persecution. The Ambassador developed a close relationship with Rav Hofstedter and is clearly dedicated to fighting antisemitism throughout the world.

On Motzaei Shabbos, Ambassador Walker visited the Dirshu Convention where he had a personal meeting with Rabbi Hofstedter, delivered a short address to the thousands in attendance and participated in a panel discussion about antisemitism. Below are some highlights from his visit.

When Ambassador Walker was introduced by MC, Reb Naftali Friedman, he was given a standing ovation. He told the assembled that he was President Trump’s principal advisor for global religious freedom and it was a great honor for him to push back against antisemitic behavior and religious intolerance throughout the world. He then expressed how he feels it a great privilege to call himself a friend of Dirshu’s Nasi, Rav Dovid Hofstedter.

He stressed how impressed he was when he observed the Slabodka Yeshiva in action during a recent visit to Bnei Brak and was gifted the opportunity to meet the venerated Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, shlita.

“Since my initial meeting with Rabbi Hofstedter, I feel we have developed a strong connection and bond. I believe we are going to be lifelong friends.”

Ambassador Walker concluded, “Let me simply give you a few parting words: Stand strong! Stand strong in maintaining your convictions and your principles. I grew up in a very conservative household. My father was strong enough that he did not want the world to influence us. He took away our television to make sure that the immoral conduct sometimes portrayed there would not influence us. Make sure to continue raising strong families who are proud of their convictions so they can go out and be upstanding, moral, productive citizens.”

{Panel Discussion On Antisemitism

Before the melaveh malkah, Ambassador Walker participated in a panel discussion regarding antisemitism. For brevity purposes we will only cover two of the questions that he was asked.

In Belgium there was recently a dispute between the Belgian government and the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium who called out the government for trying to outlaw circumcision. The Ambassador was called in and disciplined by the Belgian government. What are your thoughts about government-sanctioned antisemitism in European countries?

“My role at the behest of President Trump and Secretary Rubio is that I am the personal emissary for global religious freedom. It is my job to monitor religious minorities under attack, and as we saw recently, that this was a direct attack against the Jewish faith. After all, historically according to the Bible, on the 8th day, young males would be circumcised. It would be my job to go in and meet with the leaders [who make that an object of discrimination], push back and say, ‘No! That is religious discrimination.’ We stand with the Jewish people whether it’s in Antwerp or anywhere else.”

In America, antisemitism has never been higher. Over the last decade, far-left antisemitism has had the greatest resurgence. More recently, there has been a resurgence of right-wing antisemitism in what we can call “the Tucker Carlson wing of MAGA.” On the one hand, we understand that politically President Trump needs the electoral force of that wing of MAGA. On the other hand, as the President’s ambassador, how can he condone the overt antisemitism infecting a large wing of his supporters?

“That is a long, very important question. First of all, today on social media I gave my unequivocal support for Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, for the strength he displayed in the Tucker Carlson interview. I am honored to call him my friend and we stand by him.

“Regarding antisemitism, even when I was a congressman sitting on the Homeland Security subcommittee, we already saw a bell curve of antisemitic behavior in our country. Now we are going almost vertical. So yes, we need to address it. We have many people around the world monitoring religious discrimination, but we need to do the same in our country. We cannot afford to be bashful about calling it out whether it is in the entertainment industry, on our university campuses or coming from religious groups. We must be strong voices against it!

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United By Torah!

At the Dirshu Convention, the Women of Dirshu Celebrate “His” Torah… in “Their” Zechus

By: E. T. Rubin

There was an aura, a spiritual energy of kedushah and taharah, pulsing through the lobby.

That pulsing energy accompanied a pure, lechtig glow emanating from the many hundreds of women whose hands were covering their faces as they welcomed the Shabbos Malkah; the flames of their lecht dancing, reflecting the flames of Torah that they had all come to celebrate.

The sight of so many Yiddishe Mammes whispering tefillos, gazing in wonder at the lecht that they had just kindled in the lobby of the Armon Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut. The sight of so many Yiddishe Mammesranging from newlyweds to young mothers, to grandmothers and even great-grandmothers, all united by the light of Shabbos and the light of Torah, literally took my breath away!

And then I spotted one of my “Dirshu friends”, a woman whose husband, learns in Dirshu and who comes to the Dirshu Shabbos for a spiritual boost. This time, however, I noticed that she was wheeling a very, very newborn baby.

“Mazal tov!” I lean over, offering to hold her precious bundle. “Wow! This baby looks really new?”

 “He is three weeks old.”

“Three weeks old and you still came?!”

“Well,” the smile doesn’t leave her face, “we discussed it back and forth but really, I decided that there was no way I could miss this Shabbos!”

And that said it all. Every woman in that hotel was there because, “There is no way we can miss this Shabbos!”

{Greeting Shabbos Together

They came in droves, women from all walks of life and all corners of the country, women of all ages and from all different backgrounds, all came with one goal: to return home rejuvenated! To return home infused with chizuk to continue in their mission of doing everything possible to enable and empower their husbands to learn, review, and learn more Torah! To gain an even deeper appreciation for their role as the eizer kinegdo.

One by one, the women finished their whispered tefillos, raised their heads, gazed lovingly into the hundreds of dancing flames and headed into the Crowne Ballroom to raise their voices together l’kras Shabboswith a medley of song and inspiration.

The evening was opened by the MC, Mrs. Miryam Swerdlov, whose simchas chaim injected an uplifting feeling of joy into the assemblage, eliciting smiles and laughter interspersed with her messages of chinuchtailored to the theme of the Shabbos, “Nashim b’may zochyon.”

A heartfelt, melodious Kabbalas Shabbos followed, led by the sweet and powerful voices of the Harmonies Choir led by Mrs. Hindy Ausch. The entire assemblage accompanied the young girls, singing the age-old words of the tefillos with Yiddishe niggunim.

It was a magnificent start to a Shabbos replete with food for the soul, opportunities for growth, passion, and inspiration, complimented by a remarkable array of delectable seudos and oneg to please the palate as well.

{The Kochos of the Four Imahos Implanted… in US!

In one of her speeches, Rebbetzin Slovie Jungreis-Wolff passionately and emotionally described how each of the four imahos implanted unique kochos into the DNA of every single Jewish woman.

“Yes!” she exclaimed, “Each one of YOU has the koach of the imahos!”

She then poignantly described how Sara Imeinu gave us the koach to always look at everything as good, as fresh. The Torah tells us Sara Imeinu’s years were kulo shavin l’tov! “Really? Was Sara’s life good? She left her family and home… to famine! She was barren for so many years! Then Hagar came and immediately bore Avrohom a child! And finally, her husband took her son to the akeidah! Good?! Yes! Sara looked at everything in life as good and therefore WE have that koach!”

“Rivka gave us the ability to go. When everyone tried to convince her to stay, she said, ‘eilech—I will go’. With those words, she gave us the ability to go and do, to never give up on a child just because the world tells us to!”

She continued by explaining how Leah engrained in the psyche of Yidden to sincerely thank Hashem for no reason other than to say thank You! Until Yehuda was born, people did thank, but with a selfish bend, such as when we thank our children for cleaning their plates off the table, in the hopes that it will encourage them to clean up again next time. And Leah said, “Hapa’am odeh es Hashem—this time, I am just thanking Hashem!”

“And Rochel? She gave us the koach to cry! Rochel Mivaka al baneha! Each of us has inherited that ability, of a mother crying for her children!”

{Our Support for Our Husband’s Torah = Their Ticket to Gan Eden!

Rebbetzin Aviva Feiner magnificently portrayed how it is a woman’s koach to spread Torah. Just by being there for our husbands, just by supporting our husbands and sons, encouraging them to committed learning, we become their ticket to Gan Eden.

She shared the story of Rebbetzin Lopian who had nine sons and was poverty stricken. Another woman asked the Rebbetzin, “You have nine boys! Can’t you send one to work to ease your poverty?”

“You know,” the Rebbetzin answered, “in this world, I don’t need my children, but when it comes to the next world, BOY will I need them!”

{“Write it Down… and Burn it!”

Mrs. Miryam Swerdlov said, “One summer, a staff member came to give me the honors of dealing with a bunk that had misbehaved terribly. ‘Girls,’ I announced. ‘Meet me in back of the bunkhouse at midnight but first, write down e…x…a…c…t…l…y… what happened and bring it along.”

Mrs. Swerdlov explained that as the girls gathered around, she had someone ignite an entire garbage can of paper. Then she had each girl put their letters in the burning fire. “Finished! Hashem forgives you also!”

“That is what everyone can do when you are feeling upset—write it down, burn it in the sink, and poof! Gone! Sad—write it and burn it! Get all your feelings out and then burn them! Then you won’t be weighed down by your feelings, and you will be able to be b’simcha!”

The spiritually uplifting Shabbos was brought to a close by Mrs. Devoiry Ginsberg, who painted a picture of her most remarkable daughter, Hindy, a’h, a sixteen-year-old girl stricken with cancer who fought valiantly, with tremendous kochos hanefesh, simchas hachaim, Emunah, and bitachon. Anyone hearing about such a young girl losing her life might think, “Tragic!” But Mrs. Ginsburg tells a story that is anything but tragic. In fact, the words Rebbetzin Jungreis-Wolff quoted from her father, encapsulate young Hindy’s story: “A long life is not good enough, but a good life is long enough!”

The climax was the melaveh malkah where the women were treated inspiration, musical interludes by Mindy Blatt and the Harmonies Choir along with practical, take-home messages!

One of the many highlights was when a granddaughter of Mrs. Hofstedter emotionally described how when she dreams of a worldwide movement of Torah, she pictures one person standing behind it, “My Bubby!” Enthusiastic applause filled the room as Mrs. Hofstedter came up to receive a stunning gift presented by her very own granddaughters.

{Torah: The Ultimate Simcha!

The main speaker, Rabbi Joey Haber, drew a magnificent picture of the confusion clouding today’s world. The Bnei Yissoschor highlights that the difference between the word echad in Shema and the word acher in the aseres hadibros, ‘el acher’, is the last letter: daled or reish. The confusion between echad, Hashem and the Torah and acher, all the avodah zarahs of the world is the biggest obstacle to happiness. Torah brings clarity! Someone who commits to learning Torah for real, with Dirshu, gains clarity!

The night wound to a close, tying up the ‘mishloach manos’ of a wonderful, uplifting Shabbos that will serve to inspire and encourage all the remarkable Dirshu women for many weeks to come!