A beautiful, student-initiated memorial took root in the the lobby of Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School last week. Freshmen in the tefillah workshop of Bailey Braun, dean of students, turned the school’s welcome sign into an etz chaim. They asked fellow students and faculty to post a tefillah, feeling, commemoration or mitzvah they want to take on in memory of the 11 lives lost at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh on October 27. The tree quickly filled up with colorful Post-it notes, like autumn leaves, reflecting the wide range of thoughts and feelings that reverberated throughout the school. The school also responded with tefillah, a memorial service, and a student-initiated, school-wide program to study all of Tanach—with students volunteering for a couple of chapters each—by the end of the shloshim.