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Avos Ubonim Launches Elul with 57,320 Students

By Yechiel Sever

Elul began with 57,320 fathers and sons at 1,020 Avos Ubonim branches in 138 locations in Eretz Yisroel following a long bein hazmanim of study in botei medrash and yeshivos bein hazmanim.

"If not for Avos Ubonim," said HaRav Naftoli Falk, at the opening of Elul Zman, "many parents would be unable to find the right time to sit down with their son in a healthy frame of mind to study together. The need for an external framework for father-son learning is the result of a generation in which parents are very busy and preoccupied. The framework creates a fixed time for every parent to sit down with his son to engage in Torah study.

"Fixed study with the child," HaRav Falk added, "enables the father to regularly monitor his son's progress so that if the child encounters difficulties in his studies, the father can identify and locate the son's needs early and provide him with support and help right away."

Regarding the extensive assistance given by the Avos Ubonim World Headquarters, HaRav Falk says: "In addition to the tremendous importance of all the activities and assistance for the hundreds of outlying branches, the World Headquarters also gives a push to support the large branches to sustain their current activity and to expand. All of the large branches report marked increases in the number of fathers and sons coming to the study sessions because the boys are drawn in by the posters, programs and campaigns. The thrusts forward both in Israel and worldwide are of significance. The Headquarters provides an enormous push for the boys, the fathers and the organizers."

 

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