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[Music] the goal of the megan david shiva torah center was to create a certain love for learning for torah life that students might not always come out of the classroom with when a boy comes to learn at night that's making the torah his when a girl comes to a class after school she's now personally engaged so the goal of the program is to to show the kids that learning torah is not just during school we also do a program after school where there's torah in their life and it's not just in the morning and the day it's a nine to five type of thing it's part of their life these kids need to know that they're not just coming to school to learn torah in school torah is a way of life torah something that they need mornings nights something that for the rest of their life they'll aspire to be those people who come to shul who are the the learners in the morning the learners at night and they're beginning now they're starting it now because uh good habits begin when they're kids you know they understand the students here that torah is not a subject because if it was just another subject you wouldn't see them running in on a sunday morning to to come and learn another subject to them is life nowadays there's a lot of competition out there in the world the video games the phones the programs the things and the fact that a kid who does have access to all of that and they're still picking up to come to magen david night program sunday program voluntarily that shows everything it's not an obligation we're coming on our own choice we want to come we want to spend time with our rabbis we want to learn and we just want to have a good time i see my friends when we get there and we all learn together it's very fun we're with our friends in a different environment it's a different relationship with your teacher i come to school at night to learn because i like learning and my rabbis teach us very good i like how we do after school programs because i like learning with my rabbis and like how they come out to teach us here after school is already over my favorite part is sometimes when we get to go to the seventh floor midrash and listen to rabbi shelby make a speech you discuss things you ask questions it's us just learn and remember or learn and understand for the test when you have a rabbi student relationship in the classroom to a degree it's somewhat limited you know but it's these after school programs when you have you're learning with them at night you're learning with them on sunday morning that cultivates a relationship that will be life lasting meghan david shiva torah center is one of many programs that give us the opportunity for parents to engage in the education of their children fathers to pray with their sons on a sunday morning for moms we started a beautiful weekly class it's more than just the education of the children in in the regular school classes it's about creating torah as a lifestyle the sunday morning program the girls come in we have breakfast together and we pray together and after tefila we have learning program there is a topic there's this idea that we're delving deeper into after that there's an interactive component where the girls get to do something a project or an activity or something that relates to that topic so sunday morning we do a father-son program where we have boys come some boys come with their fathers some boys who come without their fathers breakfast and then we do learning for about 25 minutes and then we do a special halacha presentation tuesday night is a different program that program is the law we're learning what our tefilot mean the other night we began and we had a girls class and the amount of girls that were there and then the amount of girls that came over afterwards for questions and about their life and about their family was where now it resonated on a very deep level to walk in and see actual community members that i knew and i grew up with leading the way and knowing exactly what our girls need and being there to support them and a role model that behavior is just makes me feel so comfortable so it's not so easy to come early in the morning on a sunday or after school after you've learned all day but the girls that are coming are enjoying it so much i encourage those that haven't tried it yet come give us a shot i think you'll see that it's worthwhile you see them they're running in they come in and it's not just they're not here for the donuts they're here and they're not here for the waffles they're here for the you know to see their rabbis to see their teachers and for the learning and to be there with their friends and it's a really beautiful atmosphere in the in the ho yeshiva it's not just about what's happening in the classroom it's what's happening out of the classroom and the truth sometimes i feel like they never really leave everybody should be coming because we learn about all these cool things you should come because it's really fun it's special if you're not coming you're really missing out on this program because it's really a great way to get out of the house learn torah doom it's vote build a relationship with your rabbis and you just really got to get here there's nothing you're missing you're going to miss it out if you come it's exciting it's fun they motivate you you get prizes breakfast i took the step of taking classes that aren't mandatory and i i won't ever go back i moved up and i'll stay there i'm hoping that i can continue doing this when i get older i hope to learn many more um when i get older [Music] you