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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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