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Here at ArtScroll’s acquisition desk, we’re used to getting large numbers of submissions. Lately, though, we’ve seen mail coming in that looks different from the usual manuscripts.  These submissions are written on lined paper with crisply sharpened pencils or carefully drawn in crayons or colored markers. They are short, they are fun – and they are utterly charming.
Welcome to Children’s Jewish Book Month’s “Write, Draw, and Win!” contest, sponsored by ArtScroll.

As the world’s largest English-language publisher of Jewish books, ArtScroll takes its commitment to Torah literacy very seriously. Realizing that a love of books, of reading, and of a Torah perspective on life begins very early, we have long been publishing high-quality Jewish books for children, from beautifully illustrated easy readers and wonderful “read-to-me” books for the little ones to well-received middle grade and young adult fiction and non-fiction.

Encouraging our children to read – and encouraging them to read books invested with Torah values – has become more vital than ever.  In a world increasingly made up of flickering digital images, reading books develop children’s attention spans, their analytical skills and, of course, their imaginations. Study after study has shown that children who read books do better in school.

And because books have a marked impact on a child’s worldview, it is vitally important to offer children books that reflect Jewish values.

A year ago, in recognition of the importance of introducing our youth to authentic Torah literature, ArtScroll initiated the concept “May is…Children’s Jewish Book Month” with a poster campaign and special sale on all children’s books.  The idea was enthusiastically embraced by educators, librarians and parents. This year the project has been expanded to include a writing and drawing contest for students from first to eighth grades. Children submit short essays or drawings on topics connected to Jewish books, with winners in different categories and age groups.

Over seventy Jewish schools nationwide have registered for the contest, and the kids’ submissions are flowing in. Principals and teachers, realizing the importance of getting children interested in Jewish books, have enthusiastically endorsed the idea.

Top winners – and their schools – will receive $500 gift certificates from ArtScroll. But in this contest everyone is a winner, as we get our children involved and excited about reading Jewish books.

The response to ArtScroll’s Write, Draw, and Win contest, for grades 1 – 8, was stupendous! With more than 1,260 creative and imaginative entries, from more than 100 schools around the world, it was a tough call for the judges – but we tried hard to pick the best of the best. We should all be proud of the great talent of the students in our schools.

Drawing Contest: 1st Place World-Wide
Tzvi Eliezer Rich Grade 8, Torah Day School of Dallas
Congregation Toras Chaim of Dallas

We are very proud of Tzvi Eliezer Rich.

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 It has been in the minds of many that it wasn’t so long ago that our small community was faced with a very similar situation with another young Rebbetzin, also extremely  rare, covering a long period of mortal danger, with a miraculous comeback albeit with similar enduring, painful scars which will greatly effect her life in the same way. A third situation with another local rebbetzin, also after childbirth involving an extremely rare and dangerous ailment of the heart took place a couple years ago, also with a similar outcome. 

 Many have approached me and other local rabbis, asking what is the message for us all? It would not seem to be by chance that such rare, dangerous illnesses have been affecting women leaders of our community whom are know for their goodness and piety. 

 I have consulted with leading sages in America, all with the same response, that we are not prophets and, of course, cannot know the meaning or exact message implicit in this, or even if the events are truly related. All sages concurred with me that, in this situation, we must consult the rabbi known as the “Urim Vetumim”, the “priestly breastplate” of our generation, who sees beyond the surface, Hagaon Rav Chaim Kinyevsky shlit”a of Bnei Brak, the son the Steipler Gaon. 

 Rav Kinyevski, when presented with the situation, has issued the following ruling: “Our community should accept this coming Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan, Thursday, May 13th, as a half-day fast. Anyone who has trouble fasting should redeem their fast with tzedakah. Also, the Yom Kippur Katan prayer service should be recited at mincha that day. Ideally this should be done by the entire orthodox community, even in those shuls which these rebbetzins do not belong, to be a zechus for the entire community. This applies to boys and girls from Bar-Bas Mitzvah age. May this be a source of bracha and merit to the entire community”. Rav Hillel David shlit’a has expressed his concurrence, as any ruling of R’ Kinyevski is binding. 

Members and Friends of Congregation Toras Chaim will daven the Yom Kippur Katan service, as well as Mincha and Maariv, together with Congregation Ohr HaTorah, at 6324 Churchill Way, Dallas, TX 75230,  Thursday, May 13, at 7:20 PM. The fast is only a half-day fast, beginning at 5:05 AM and ending at 1:22 PM.

 A discussion is taking place among the rabbinical leadership of the community as far as continued shiurim for the community in reference to this situation.  

 May this, and our teshuva, bring Mrs. Shimon a complete and speedy refuah sheleima, and may this be a merit before Ha-shem that no more such difficulties should befall our community or in all of Klal Yisroel. 

 Respectfully yours,
 Rabbi Yerachmiel Fried, Rosh Hakollel, DATA

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The story begins with a young Yeshiva student, an 18 year old Yerushalmi, that came down with afulminate hepatic failure and was mortally ill.

With little hope of receiving a liver transplant in Israel, Rav Firer sought to send the boy emergency to Brussels, the world center of liver transplants. The only problem however, is that Brussels under no circumstances transplants non-EU patients in order to save the scanty supply of livers for Europeans. Nevertheless, it was decided to send him to Brussels despite the full knowledge of negligible chance of receiving a liver.

The young Yeshiva student had no choice but to include his name to the long waiting list for a liver transplant. In the meantime, he tried to maintain his learning despite the illness, consciously aware that it will takes weeks, months, and even years till he will be able to be given a new liver. Many patients were on the waiting list, and his name was somewhere on the bottom… And when his turn does finally arrive, it must completely match his blood type and other medical criteria. If it’s not a perfect match, he will need to continue waiting … for a miracle.

However, רבות מחשבות בלב איש ועצת ה’ היא תקום Many thoughts in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of HaShem shall stand. HaShem had a different plan for this young Yeshiva student and HaShem’s loyal servants produced avalanches of hot ash, rock and gas on Europe, causing Europe to completely shut down its skies into a no-fly zone. No one can leave and no one can enter; a self-imposed siege in the euro zone skies. It is during this time that a young religious Yerushalmi man in the capital of Belgium is sitting in the yeshiva learning Torah.

During the course of the shut down airspace above Europe, a person dies in the hospital in the capital of Belgium, a person whom agreed to donate his liver to anyone that might need it. Astonishingly, a liver that is perfectly parametric for our young Yeshiva student.

Health authority of Belgium began searching the liver transplant waiting list but ‘unfortunately’, not even one patient was able to fly into Belgium for the very needed healthy liver transplant due to a volcanic eruption in Iceland.

As they advanced further on the waiting list, they reached the young Yeshiva student. However it was not offered to the boy due to his lack of citizenship. As the clock closed in on the deadline for time in which the the liver’s lifespan for transplanting, the precious healthy liver cannot be wasted and must be swiftly replaced with a diseased liver, no one else was able to arrive in Belgium for the transplant except this young Yerushalmi.

With the clear Divine Intervention, this budding talmid chacham received the liver and is now recovering from surgery.

The enormity of this miracle was even greater after the successful liver transplant. The doctors said that the young yeshiva student’s liver was very deteriorated and diseased and it was a matter of days his liver would stop functioning completely. The doctors unanimously believe that if this young man had to continue waiting for the liver transplant, he would have been long dead.

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