For the 15th consecutive year, Rabbi Mordechai and Mrs. Shterney Kanelsky sponsored children who learned Mishnayos and Tanya Baal Peh of The United Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn.

This year over 150 children studied over 75,000 lines of Baal Peh throughout the entire school year; the majority of the studying took place during their recess and their own personal time. These children excelled and the top boy learned over 3,900 lines by himself. The children were awarded and presented with plaques and hundreds of books. The event was co-sponsored by the Kanelskys. The principal of the school, Rabbi Yossi Simpson, praised the children for completing an excellent job.

Rabbi Kanelsky shared personal stories with the children of how he studied Tanya Baal Peh as a young child underground in the former Soviet Union, and encouraged the children to continue their studies. Rabbi Kanelsky thanked the children, on behalf of both himself and his wife, Mrs. Shterney Kanelsky, for studying lines of Torah by heart in memory of their beloved daughter Bat Sheva, OB”M.