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Chidon HaMitzvos 5760 For Girls
Five First Prize Winners:
Three Judges Pose Tough Questions To 43 Girls
From A Dozen Schools
By Aliza Karp

Question: A person leaves his hammer on the edge of his roof and a hurricane wind blows it down. It causes $600 worth of damage. How much of that damage is the owner of the hammer responsible for?

The above is one of the questions posed at the Grand Chidon for girls, the championship contest of Tzivos Hashem’s Chidon HaMitzvos Contest, held in Crown Heights this past Sunday, 5 Adar II. For the past few months, thousands of children across the US and Canada have been participating in the Chidon HaMitzvos, by studying the Rambam’s Seifer HaMitzvos. After a series of preliminary tests the finalists were selected to come to the Grand Chidon.

Every year the Grand Chidon is in a different city. On March 26, the Grand Chidon for the boys will be held in Montreal, Canada.

Fifth and sixth graders compete in level one, seventh and eighth graders compete in level two. Due to equal points, first, second and third place positions were shared by more than one winner.

Level one, first place winners are: Chaya Mushka Hertz from Cheder Lubavitch, Chicago and Sorale Karavitsky, Bais Rivka, New York. Second place winners are: Devorah Leah Goldstein and Mushka Shemtov, both of Oholei Yosef Yitzchok, Detroit, and Chayale Shanowitz, Cheder Lubavitch, Chicago. Third place winners are: Mussy Druck, Oholei Yosef Yitzchok, Detroit, and Devorah Leah Isenberg, Cheder Lubavitch, Morristown.

Level two, first place winners are: Chavie Gourarie of Cheder Oholei Yosef Yitzchok, Detroit, Devorah Leah Kamman, Bais Rivka, New York and Sorah Perlstein, Cheder Lubavitch, Chicago. Second place winners are: Ester Raizel Eherentrei, Bais Rivka, Montreal, and Dina Galperin, Cheder Lubavitch, Chicago. Third place winners are: Chana Ita Klar, Cheder Lubavitch, Morristown and Chana Reizes, Bais Rivka, New York.

The Grand Chidon was addressed by Rabbi Leib Groner. He explained how all participants in the Chidon HaMitzvos contest are winners. Even if some of the concepts were difficult and the girls were unable to understand them completely, all their efforts, using their time and energy to learn Rambam, are bringing Moshiach closer. Rabbi Groner stressed that today is the final contest but is in no way a finality to learning the mitzvos. Now that they have this knowledge in their minds, the girls should try to remember and review these mitzvos as often as possible. And they should not stop there, either. Competing in this contest is a preparation for future studies, as the Rebbe has requested us to learn Rambam on a daily basis.

Twelve schools sent representatives to the Grand Chidon. In addition to the schools mentioned with the winners, were: Bais Chaya Mushka, Los Angeles; Hebrew Day School Yeshivas Achei Tmimim, New Haven; Beis Chaya Mushka, New York; Chai School, Ithaca, NY; Lubavitch Cheder Day School, S. Paul; Politz Hebrew Academy, Philadelphia; Torah Academy, New Orleans.

The judges who asked the questions, tallied the scores and made every effort that the contest should be as fair as possible were: Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson, Executive Director of Tzivos Hashem, Rabbi Zalman Leib Markowitz, Principal, Cheder Lubavitch, Morristown, and Rabbi Eliezer Wenger of Montreal, teacher, author and compiler of the Chidon Workbook.

First place winner Devorah Leah Kamman says she likes to compete and likes to learn. When asked which mitzvos have made the most impact on her, she answered, “the ones against harming another with words.”

In Rabbi Groner’s speech, his deep connection to the Rebbe was felt as he assured the contestants and the hundreds of people in the audience that “the Rebbe is present with us here and now and giving us brachos. And in the z’chus of this event, immediately we should see the revelation of Melech HaMoshiach. Immediately we will see the Rebbe.”
 

Rabbis Yerachmiel Benjaminson, Zalman Leib Markawitz,Eliezer Vangar, and Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Gorelik
 

   

Contestants in the Chidon HaMitzvos Contest
 


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