Throughout the year, RPRY’s sixth grade learned about various nashim tzidkaniyot in honor of the girls becoming bnot mitzvah. They learned about women such as the imahot, Chana Haneviah, Rut Hamoaviah, Sarah Schenirer, Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky, amongst others.

This week the girls celebrated becoming bnot mitzvah by acting out scenes where they applied the midot and mitzvot they learned about in modern day scenes. The girls wrote and recited poems on each important woman and sang songs depicting what they learned from them. Some of the women the girls studied and sang about were Chana HaNeviah, where they sang “Alatz Libi” and for Sarah Schneirer, they sang “Migdal Or” about how she spread the light of Torah to young women.

The girls ended with a tribute to their mothers, their modern day role models, by singing songs such as “My Dear Ima,” “Shabbos Queen” and “Eshet Chayil.” The girls each wrote a personal poem to their mother, which they said as a slideshow with pictures of them and their mothers played.

In addition, the class teacher, Shoshana Kaplan, spoke beautifully about each student individually.

It was a night of inspiration and celebration!