Binat Halev held a graduation ceremony for women completing the three-
year Chochmat Hanefesh study program, which was initiated to address
the lack of chareidi caretakers — both male and female —
to properly meet the needs of the chareidi community.
The studies were held in classrooms at Binat Halev, with lectures by
some of Israel's top experts in the field.
The ceremony began with a speech by HaRav Yitzchok Lorincz, who
offered thanks and praise to Hashem Yisborach for the merit to train
childcare consultants from the chareidi community, noting that this is
the only place where studies are led by professionals at the highest
levels, incorporating knowledge from the non-Jewish world while taking
pains to ensure the program's contents adhere to uncompromising
standards of taharoh, consulting along every step of the way
with gedolei Yisroel shlita — who themselves initiated
the program — both regarding classroom studies and their
implementation in the field.
HaRav Lorincz noted that they do not operate an institute for
professional training, but based on the need made apparent at Merkaz
Hachinuch childcare centers, meetings were held with gedolei
Yisroel, who gave special instructions to launch the courses.
Since the issues addressed are matters that require exacting
discernment, providing proper oversight of the contents, and only when
it is limited in size is it possible to provide close oversight from
start to finish.
Merkaz Hachinuch is building a stable bridge over raging waters to
link professional childcare to the chareidi public, which has been
justified in avoiding outside professionals, who are liable to
exacerbate the situation through a lack of understanding and a
misplaced desire to seek solutions based on moral outlooks of
caretakers who do not keep Torah and mitzvas.
