Buenos Aires Yeshiva Celebrates Semicha Graduation

For the fourth consecutive year, a remarkable Smicha celebration was held at the Beis Midrash of Colel Ohel Yosef Moshe in Buenos Aires, Argentina last Tuesday night.

For the fourth consecutive year, a remarkable Smicha celebration was held at the Beis Midrash of Colel Ohel Yosef Moshe in Buenos Aires, Argentina last Tuesday night.

Directed by Rabbi Mendy Raijer, this Smicha Program stands out in guiding students throughout the program in a personal way, teaching classes in Spanish, and providing a pleasant and flexible climate to make students feel comfortable.

This year the celebration was twofold, as it also had a second group of Talmidim who (after having already received Smicha last year, decided to continue, in the style of “Maalin Bakodesh”) studied a program of Hilchos Shabbos from Shulchan Oruch Harav throughout the year, acquiring vast knowledge in the details of 39 Melachos and Dinei Muktze.

Among the Rabbonim were present the Shliach HaRoshi in Argentina Rabbi Tzvi Grunblatt, the Rav Hamasmich and Moreh Horaah in Kehilas Chabad Argentina Rabbi Efraim Halperin, the Mashpia Rabbi Osher Farkash and Rabbi Dovid Plotka, Sheliach and Rab Moreh Horooh from Flores, Buenos Aires.

The Rabbonim highlighted the hard work of the musmachim, and their achievement in successfully attaining Semicha. They encouraged the bochurim to use the knowledge and wisdom gained in learning Semicha to empower them in all their future life achievements. A special thanks was extended to the project sponsor Reb Chaim Lapidus and his entire family, as well as to Rabbi Sholom Boruch Lapidus, Director of the Colel Ohel Yosef Moshe.

The Smicha graduates are Hatomim Motty Moskovitz, Hatomim Tuvia Shmukler and Hatomim Alexander Posternak. The Shabbos Program graduates are: Hatomim Mendy Chocron, Aharon Chab, Eitan Benoliel, Arie Leib Farkash, Dan Kordon, Reb Zasha Silberstein and Reb Chaim Dobry.