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I’ll never forget the day I visited my son at his cheder, Talmud Torah Chochmas Shlomo, in Yerushalayim. It was the day of the Purim party, and as I walked through the gate with my three-year-old daughter in tow, I saw the most amazing sight: hundreds of adorable cheder boys all dressed up as little sheep, and the principal, Rav Avraham Shalom Pinzel, dressed up as a shepherd and leading them around the schoolyard.
“Why is everyone dressed up as a shepsaleh?” my daughter who was already savvy in the way of choosing a Purim costume, asked me.

” I don’t want any child to feel bad about his costume,” explains Rav Pinzel. You have some boys who come to cheder with very elaborate costumes, and others whose parents don’t have the means or the ability to organize a special costume. This way, everyone is the same, and they can all enjoy the Purim atmosphere!”
The idea of providing each child with the same Purim costume is just one of Rabbi Pinzel’s innovations, and which have made Talmud Torah Chochmas Shlomo a leader in chinuch today. While he employs many new, original ideas, the goal is one and the same: to imbue the children with the age-old values of emunah, yiras Shamayim, and ahavas haTorah while developing good middos.~ ~

For 25 years, Chochmas Shlomo has delivered the highest quality chinuch to children of Yerushalayim – a quarter of whom are from English-speaking homes. Children leave the cheder after 8th grade with a love of Torah learning as well as tremendous knowledge amassed due to the groundbreaking and effective chazara programs – and all this despite not having proper facilities.
This Rosh Chodesh Adar, Feb. 25 – 26, Talmud Torah Chochmas Shlomo is embarking on a special fundraising campaign, called Bayis LiShmi, to finally build a proper building for the cheder, which today numbers some 1,500 children, ken yirbu.
Rav Pinzel now has a rare opportunity to build a decent facility that a school of this size needs, including ample spacious classrooms, resource rooms, a dining room, a beis medrash, and everything else children need to thrive. After years of struggling with bureaucracy and exploiting every possible connection, Rav Pinzel has now obtained from the municipality land and permits for construction. The municipality is doing its part, but the cheder must also raise $3 million through its own efforts to complete the project.
The building fund is heartily endorsed by Gedolei Yisrael shlita, including Maran Harav Chaim Kanievsky, Harav Gershon Edelstein, Harav Baruch Dov Povarsky, and many more.
Take part in the building campaign and claim your share in this very special makom Torah!
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