Overheard: Issue 925
| August 23, 2022One little girl excitedly ran to her father — a yungerman — to seek confirmation
“Tatty, is it really true that you hold up the world?”
— A seven-year-old girl at the bein hazmanim program in Split Rock Resort in the Poconos. Hosted by “Igud Bnei Torah,” the program offers families of yungeleit and rebbeim beautiful, subsidized vacations. Signs abound throughout the resort reminding these klei kodesh of their exalted positions. Upon seeing the sign in the playground, one little girl excitedly ran to her father — a yungerman — to seek confirmation.
(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 925)
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