During Elul, Maran the mashgiach of Yeshivas Ponevezh, HaRav Yechezkel Levenstein zt'l, would advise the students to designate certain topics to concentrate on primarily during the coming year. He would urge them to adopt the contemporary gedolim's guidance not only in matters affecting Klal Yisroel but in questions of how to conduct one's private life, too. The gedolei Torah have always instructed yeshiva talmidim to be mindful to daven consistently in the yeshiva's beis midrash, to fix times for studying mussar and halocho, to follow the yeshiva's study schedule carefully, to beware of the various sorts of gezel, including gezel sheinah, and to behave strictly according to the takonos of behavior established by the roshei yeshivos for their talmidim. Each ben Torah should cling to his rav and seek individual guidance from him. In this way he will fulfill "and you shall cling to Him" (Devorim 10:20), as the Rambam (Hilchos Dei'os 6:3) writes, and will come nearer to Hashem and His Torah.

"And you shall rejoice with all the good which Hashem has given you" (at the end of the parsha of bikkurim in Ki Sovo).

In Part Two of this series, two American `transplants', or chutznikiot describe their absorption in Israel. In the eyes of both, the point of attraction to life here is not lifestyle or mentality, but clearly only a high spiritual level and the existence of Torah centers that enable perfect Torah study for the husband.