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6th Annual Grand Chidon Of The Seifer HaMitzvos Of The Rambam Competition For Boys

At the Grand Chidon, the championship event of Tzivos Hashem’s Seifer HaMitzvos of the Rambam Competition for boys, Rabbi Mordechai Berger, Dean of Tomchei Tmimim, Montreal, addressed the crowd saying, “being here today…seeing the kinderlach, the Tmimim, the young children, so involved in the Rebbe’s Mivtza of Seifer HaMitzvos, leaves us with no doubt, that Moshiach is ‘oht, oht…’”

Sunday, 19 Adar II, the Grand Chidon for boys took place in Montreal in front of an audience of several hundred people. Of the thousands of children from the dozens of schools that participated in the Chidon this year, sixty five boys qualified to be finalists in the Grand Chidon.

The finalists write a lengthy test on Motzaei Shabbos and then are asked questions at the Grand Chidon to determine first, second and third place winners. “Some of the questions are tricky, and some require a lot of concentration,” Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson, Executive Director of Tzivos Hashem told the audience. “It is astounding to realize the clarity with which these children understand the mitzvos.”

Most of the contestants arrived at the Lubavitch yeshiva in Montreal by bus on Thursday night. They were welcomed by fifty bachurim, who greeted them with singing and dancing. Shabbos was filled with achdus and simcha as the boys davened and learned together, and were addressed by rabbanim and storytellers. Motzaei Shabbos, after the written test was handed in, they were entertained with a Purim play that the local yeshiva students had performed just a few days before on Purim. Accommodations and arrangements were the gracious and generous efforts of the Montreal community, under the coordination of Rabbi Yossi Sputz, Principal of Tomchei Temimim in Montreal.

First place winners on the junior level were Yehoshua Heshel Mishulovin of Los Angeles and Menachem M. Rosenblum of Pittsburgh. Second place was Shaya Engel of Montreal. Third place was a four-way tie, with: Dovid Aryea Leib Ehrentrei of Montreal, Avroham Wolff of Morristown, and Moshe Blumberger and Yoshai Chaim Strauss both of Chicago.

First place winner for the senior level was Eitan Goldberg of Pittsburgh. Second place was shared by Menachem Mendel Ceitlin of Toronto and Shmuel Avtzon of Crown Heights. Third place winners were Shmuel Hillel of Montreal and Menachem Mendel Morozow of Crown Heights.

“The Chidon Mitzvos Competition gets bigger and better from year to year,” said Rabbi Benjaminson. “ We already have schools who have just learned about the Chidon who are anxious to participate in it next year…in Jerusalem, with Moshiach, of course.”


 

   

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