Simchas Torah at DEC

After a month at Derech Etz Chaim our students have already covered the first perek of Gitten in bekiyus seder. After an uplifiting Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur and V'Samachta B'Chagecha Succos, it was time to sing, dance and celebrate with the Torah.

At Derech Etz Chaim, the students observer 2 days of Yom Tov which means 4 sets of 7 hakafot. Although sometimes it gets exhausting the Rosh Yeshiva remarked how this year was the most energetic and leibadig Simchas Torah in recent memory.

To keep the excitement going, on the second night we encourgaed the guys to take to the streets. Even though the festival was over for the DEC staff, the rebbeim joined the yeshiva boys for hakafot shniyot. The boys also "crashed" a hakafa with our next door neighbor Machon Yaakov