A large gathering was held at the Beis Yaakov Teachers'
Training Institute in Jerusalem to dedicate a new seminary
scheduled to open at the beginning of 5768 and named after
the late Avrohom Zeev and Gittel Samet.
The gathering addressed the meaning of the progression of
students from a primary school to a high school. Speakers
included HaRav Binyomin Scharansky, HaRav Shmuel Pinchasi,
HaRav Mordechai Neugershal and HaRav Yehuda Samet. The
concluding speech was given by the newly appointed principal,
Mrs. Rivkoh Shachar.
"We are about to place the task of educating in the hands of
teachers whose yir'oh comes before their
chochmoh," HaRav Scharansky, "and we have no doubt the
mothers will be grateful to us as the students continue the
chain of the noshim tzidkoniyos who stood at Har
Sinai."
HaRav Pinchasi offered his blessings to the seminary
administration, saying he is familiar with and has great
respect for the administration's vision.
HaRav Neugershal discussed the importance of investing in an
education in Yiddishkeit for the generations to come
and the mother's responsibility for the preservation of
Jewish education. "The seminary years are years of self-
building. There is no duplication in HaKadosh Boruch
Hu's world. Every young woman is an individual creation
and has an obligation to develop herself and the abilities
lying in her. The seminary is supposed to provide the
infrastructure, and on this infrastructure every girl builds
her personality using the tools she was endowed with to
fulfill her purpose."
Rav Yehuda Samet, the son of the late R' Avrohom and Gittel
Samet whom the seminary is named after, described the pure
education he received from his parents during a period of
time when it was very difficult for US Jews to keep Torah and
mitzvas. He described his mother's work as an outstanding
educator and principal, and her love for her students, saying
she would see the uniqueness in each of them, see to their
needs and impart them with middos tovos and ahavas
haTorah.
He also recounted that Rebbetzin Pincus, the mother of HaRav
Shimshon Pincus zt"l, traveled from the US to Krakow
to study under Soroh Schenirer and upon returning to the US
searched for a school where she could apply what she had
learned. Rebbetzin Samet helped her and together they were
among a handful of women in the US who invested in Bais
Yaakov education. "The Samet Seminary will be an educational
center based on my parents' principles of education,
education in middos tovos and pure yiras
Shomayim and love of the students," he said as he wrapped
up his charged speech.
In her concluding remarks Rebbetzin Shachar noted that the
uniqueness of the new seminary lies in the fact that in
addition to the personal building of the students in terms of
academics, values, education and hashkofoh, it will be
a place where the students will specialize in the arts of
music, dance, photography, drawing and graphics during the
course of their high school studies.
For further details and enrollment, call 02-6519530 or write
to POB 8827, Jerusalem, 91072.
