By COLlive reporter
30 Jewish students from various American universities, including TCNJ, Vassar, Rutgers, NYU, and BU visited Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim in Morristown, NJ, for a spirited Farbrangen.
The occasion of the visit this past Motzoei Shabbos was the chassidic holiday of Tes-Yud Kislev, the birth date and passing of the second Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Dovber Schneuri, known as the Mitteler Rebbe.
On this date in 1826 (5587), the Mitteler Rebbe was released from his imprisonment in the City of Vitebsk after being accused as a revolutionary in Czarist Russia for sending support to Eretz Yisrael’s poor.
The gathering, in honor of this Hakel year, is part of a new outreach effort at one of the first programs worldwide for Ba’alei Teshuva founded in 1973. Tiferes is now sending their students to visit campuses to bring the Yeshiva atmosphere there.
“Bringing students to Yeshiva is one of the best ways to have them experience excitement in Judaism. They are simply blown away each time,” says Rabbi Akiva Greenbaum of Chabad @ TCNJ (The College of New Jersey) in Ewing, NJ.
Dozens of students from Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim have traveled in the past month, visiting seven Chabad on Campuses.
“The bochurim who visited us were ‘into it’ yet still down to earth and fun,” said Rabbi Baruch S. Kantor of Temple University in Philadelphia. “It’s all about creating friendships. Now several students are interested in making a visit to the Yeshiva.”
The bochurim invited students, who expressed interest, to the acclaimed one week “Tiferes Winter Program” to be held in the final week of December 2015. A wide array of boys from all backgrounds come to Morristown, allowing them to enjoy an authentic experience in Yeshiva.
“The boys were fantastic,” said Rabbi Chaim Lipskier of Chabad at University of Central Florida. “Not only did they do a great job integrating with the students and talking to them, but it was inspiring to observe their own behavior as well.”
The shluchim were also encouraged to plan a trip to yeshiva for a farbrengen, a relevant shiur, and a unique program specially designed for their students.
I learned in Tiferes 10 years and always looked forward to the college students coming to visit. i also went to this farby which was beyond amazing. Look out for the Tiferes Alumni Network to help students learn how to apply their Torah learning to a career in whatever field they choose.
Even a short program can be life changing.
With the increase of campus shluchim around the country there needs to be an increase in the enrollment of our Baale Tshuva Yeshivas, for men and woman.
Sell this program and change a life.
Reignited candles now lighting other ones. That’s what it’s all about.
Keep it up.
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The relationships that I developed at Teferis have been the most positive, productive, and inspirational relationships I have ever had. Any ammount of time you can take to visit for a few hours, days, weeks etc is well worth it! The Rabbis and students here are amazing.
Great article about a great place. My son has attended Tiferes for some time now and I couldn’t be more impressed with the amazing Rabbis, staff, and fellow students who infuse great energy and joy into life. As a parent, the yeshiva has been beyond accommodating in so many areas and maintained a great relationship with my husband and I regarding our son in yeshiva. It’s always amazing to see the growth which our son has accomplished when he comes to visit home. Thank you Tiferes and keep doing what you are doing
Being a current student I can say that the uniqueness of tiferes is not just in the supreme quality of the classes, faculty, facility, or student body; the uniqueness of tiferes is namely in the quality of how these qualities conjoin to form the most beautiful and sincere, pnimi type of environment, entirely and wholesomly conducive for anyone’s learning style.
I have gone to tiferes when I have break from university. College is to teach us a skill to get and thrive at a job. Morristown yeshiva is the best place to learn how to live and thrive as a Jewish person which is our first job.
In 1974, two Machon Chana students came to my community to participate in a panel discussion. I wasn’t up to their level in many ways, and wasn’t ready to be in Crown Heights yet, but I found myself really impressed by — and secretly jealous of — these girls. An unforgettable experience that paid off big time. Four years later I moved to Crown Heights.
Great article, I definitely miss farbrenging with visiting college students, as a former college student I wish I could have done this when I was in school