The chag of Sukkot offered a plethora of opportunities for the TABC family to celebrate together. On the first night of Chol Hamoed, rebbeim, alumni and talmidim participated in the annual Simchat Beit HaShoeva in Keter Torah’s sukkah. They joined together for pizza, singing, dancing and divrei Torah. From there, a group of over 30 TABC juniors, seniors and alumni traveled with TABC rebbeim to Boro Park to experience what a Simchat Beit HaShoeva is like among the chassidim. They were privileged to hear words of Torah from both the Munkatch Rebbe and the Bobov Rebbe in their respective Sukkot. Then, they had a wonderful time dancing with members of the Karlin Stalin and Stuchinsk communities. It was a fun, leybedik learning experience, which demonstrated incredible achdut among Jews.

On the third day of Chol Hamoed, TABC held its annual Simchat Beit HaShoeva in Monsey. The event was hosted at the sukkah of Dr. Joel Berman. Students were joined by Rabbi Grossman, who shared divrei Torah. Then, on Motzei Shabbat, a group of matmidim alumni from TABC’s class of 2015 drove to Highland Park for a Melave Malka/ Simchat Beit HaShoeva with Rabbi Malitzky.

Finally, over 70 talmidim, together with many of their rebbeim, celebrated Simchat Torah night with hakafot in TABC. They learned and danced together, as their ruach filled the yeshiva. During the auction for “Ata Horeta,” the talmidim committed themselves to finishing the entire Masechet Megillah. Meanwhile, Rabbi Blau joined the many juniors who learned in the NCSY Kollel this past summer for hakafot at their reunion in DRS in the Five Towns. So many juniors chose to spend their summers learning at programs that they were a major and impressive force during the hakafot.

TABC is proud that its talmidim consistently choose to spending their “time off” with their rebbeim, teachers and each other.