Davening Club Awards Medals

Today marks the 20th Yahrtzeit since the passing of Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht obm. It is also the day that the Junior Congregation of Los Angeles – the Shul for the kids – by the kids which is named after Rabbi Hecht – announced its final top three medalist of KYY # 9, for being the best Davners of this past year.

The three top Daveners were Mendel Raichick (ben Reb Yankee), who won the platinum medal, Menachem Mendel Spiegel, who won the gold medal and Mendel Raichick (ben Reb Levi).

The three were chosen from over 120 children who come every shabbos to daven at this special shul.

Its main emphasis is to teach “unzereh kinder” how to daven with Derech Eretz and Kabolas ol. Each shabbos one of the daveners is chosen to be the “Junior Rabbi” where he delivers a Drasha and a Hashgoch Protis story from a specially designed bima.

Each Tishrei special elections are held for the president of the Jr. Shul as well as new Gaboyim for the following year.

Each Shabbos when a Mispallel that joins the minyan of that week he/she receives a “boarding Pass” for a special raffle that’s held at the end of each year where the Zocha B’goral is chosen for the grand prize to a Chabad Moisad somewhere in another country- to see the work of the Rebbe’s shluchim first hand.

Those destinations in the past included the actual city of Lubavitch, as well as Eretz Yisroel, Austria, France, Australia and this year’s grand prize to Brazil-South America.