Working Up An Appetite

At Derech Etz Chaim, our students develop a strong hunger for Gemara and a thirst for Torah knowledge. Naturally, this spiritual appetite of the soul manifests itself in the physical appetite of their digestive systems.

Here we have shana bet students (left to right) Yeruchum Pliner, Adam Siebzener, Sam Ash and Meir Gersten loading up on refreshments before sitting down to review the first perek of mesechet Gittin in R' Moshe Eliyahu's shiur

Tiyul to Ein Gedi and the Dead Sea

Our first full-day tiyul started off in Ein Gedi. Our fearless tour guide and DEC alumni Danny Sokol took us through lots of water on a very hot day in Ein Gedi. The views were stunning, but more importantly, the guys got to see first hand where all of their Ein Gedi water bottles come from.
We all got back in the bus and headed a little further south to the Dead Sea. We round a pretty deserted spot on the beach and we all went in for a float. Below we have Adam Siebzener, Avraham Trieger and Joshua Gersten showing off the Dead Sea's buoyancy powers.


We finished off the evening with a barbeque on the beach. The guys had an awesome time. Yeruchum Pliner, a shana bet student said that the tiyul was probably the best tiyul he had ever been on since coming to Derech Etz Chaim, then he paused, thought for a minute and said, "Well, maybe tied with the Golan tiyul at the end of last year."