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The Vodka children.
Before Sukkos, the Vodkas invite all the kids in the building
to their sukkah to make decorations. One year
they made a paper chain so long that they measured it
by wrapping it around the whole building!
is “one of the biggest mitzvos you can army’s rabbinate. The Rav also believes Chava was an English teacher. She
do.” Unfortunately, because the army is in doing as much as you can through then started to volunteer. She is cur-
secular and tries with all its might to halacha and Torah guidance to be part rently the vice-president of the parent
get the religious to do aveiros, it’s “def- of the government and national holi- board of her children’s school and
initely very complicated.” The Rav days so as not to separate and form a thinks it is important to let her voice be
therefore encourages the young men to community apart from the rest of the heard so as to represent the outlook of
join the army but to do so carefully, country. the yeshiva community. She and a
such as going into the Nachal Chareidi friend also initiated a local clothing
unit or the rabbanut hatzva’it, the ◆◆◆ gemach. Families and store owners
For her first four years in Bat Yam,
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Before Sukkos, the Vodkas invite all the kids in the building
to their sukkah to make decorations. One year
they made a paper chain so long that they measured it
by wrapping it around the whole building!
is “one of the biggest mitzvos you can army’s rabbinate. The Rav also believes Chava was an English teacher. She
do.” Unfortunately, because the army is in doing as much as you can through then started to volunteer. She is cur-
secular and tries with all its might to halacha and Torah guidance to be part rently the vice-president of the parent
get the religious to do aveiros, it’s “def- of the government and national holi- board of her children’s school and
initely very complicated.” The Rav days so as not to separate and form a thinks it is important to let her voice be
therefore encourages the young men to community apart from the rest of the heard so as to represent the outlook of
join the army but to do so carefully, country. the yeshiva community. She and a
such as going into the Nachal Chareidi friend also initiated a local clothing
unit or the rabbanut hatzva’it, the ◆◆◆ gemach. Families and store owners
For her first four years in Bat Yam,
56 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
