Comments on: Levi Yitzchok Library Reopens for Women and Children https://anash.org/levi-yitzchok-library-reopens-for-women-and-children/ News, Views, Inspiration Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:13:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: What a great event! https://anash.org/levi-yitzchok-library-reopens-for-women-and-children/#comment-20150 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:13:40 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=546156#comment-20150 I was so excited to bring my kids to join in. It was heimish, inexpensive, and we had a great time! Was so nice to show my kids how a library is not just novels but also seforim, and showed them the kids ones too. Thank you to the organizers for all the work you put in!

]]> By: So excited that it is once again up and running! https://anash.org/levi-yitzchok-library-reopens-for-women-and-children/#comment-20120 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 05:51:40 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=546156#comment-20120 The Levi Yitzchak Library is an amazing resource! After getting this suggestion from another school, I recently started bringing my high school students there to research their reports. It’s eye opening for the girls to learn to find and open actual seforim instead of searching chabad.org etc. It has been an absolute game changer and we redesigned the entire report based on the availability of the library for research purposes.
I have also chaperoned a high school class on their visit to the library for hey teves, and helped guide them in discovering and learning about different seforim.
I am so greatful that the Levi Yitzchak Library is available for this, especially since most girls (especially those who are not living at home) don’t have access to stores of seforim in shuls and batei medrash. Keep up the amazing work!

]]> By: Tamar Stone https://anash.org/levi-yitzchok-library-reopens-for-women-and-children/#comment-19997 Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:21:21 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=546156#comment-19997 Your comments about the “dumbiing down” of the library’s mission are correct, but unfortunately you don’t seem to have the whole picture. The library has reopened without a male librarian, and despite advertising and outreach, they don’t have any man willing or able to take the job. If you would present qualified candidates, I am sure the library would hire them. second, and I think more importantly, the reason the library has become so popular with mothers and children is that there is NO Other place that is safe, secure, and FREE for mothers to bring their children for some quiet activity and socializing. There is a Motherhood Center, but it charges an admission fee and is really geared towards mothers with babies/toddlers. It does not fill the need of school age children. Once our community opens a community center that is free and safe and welcoming for our families, then the library can return to its original purpose. (I don’t see that happening before Moshiach, as the community keeps citing their inability to build a center that is only available to our people….).
Third, the library does not need to be a place for socializing and activities first before research and learning. Family hours are 1-6 or 7pm. The morning hours and the evening/nighttime hour are ostensibly available for men and bochurim to come and learn and do research. but we would need a male librarian for that…. I hope these points clarify the picture for you and maybe you’ll be the key to finding appropriate male staff that would lead to the LYLibrary fulfilling its mission…

]]> By: Men's hours https://anash.org/levi-yitzchok-library-reopens-for-women-and-children/#comment-19971 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:06:34 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=546156#comment-19971 Surely some men can run the library on Monday, or a couple of nights a weeks after 6 when the library would otherwise be closed.

The rebbe have permission to use his father’s name when the library was open to all. Went change it now?.

]]> By: CH Resident https://anash.org/levi-yitzchok-library-reopens-for-women-and-children/#comment-19968 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 05:34:09 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=546156#comment-19968 While there may be some validity to the changes in who the library is serving at this time, it is sad that a hard-earned and long awaited event was denigrated for someone’s obvious agenda.
Perhaps a sincere request to the administrator of the library, and suggestions for a competent male librarian would yield results.
Until then, Boruch Hashem that our children can be encouraged to read proper Jewish content and grow in Yiddishkeit right in Kan tziva

]]> By: Mrs Esther feig https://anash.org/levi-yitzchok-library-reopens-for-women-and-children/#comment-19967 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 01:58:50 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=546156#comment-19967 My kids have been attending the library for
Months.

It did not just open. My husband goes to collel to learn. This library is a treasure
And my family loves it. Only look at the positive.

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