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Dear Parents, Alumni and Friends,

 
It is our pleasure to present you with this recently published article by Rabbi Hillel Goldberg, which was featured in this week's edition of the Intermountain Jewish News.  

 

Please feel free to forward this article to friends, family and supporters of HTC and FYHS.  

 

We hope that you will share in our pride as we congratulate our students on their recent accomplishments. 

  

Wishing you a wonderful summer!
Our graduation - as luck would have it 
  

THURSDAY, 23 JUNE 2011 08:52 RABBI HILLEL GOLDBERG

Copyright © 2011 by the Intermountain Jewish News 

Graduation 2011.

 

I OFTEN wonder about the Hebrew for "congratulations" - Mazel Tov -  because it means "good luck." Luck is something that happens or it doesn't. It's random. How can I wish someone luck? The wish implies a certain volition on my part, and luck is beyond volition.  

 

Indeed so.  

 

Our son was lucky to be in a great class, with which he just graduated high school, specifically, the Oscar Z. Fasman Yeshiva High School of the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois.  

 

As they say, luck favoreth the prepared mind, and the yeshiva was well prepared for this class, which was great in two senses. 

 

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