The demand over the past years for Pele Yoetz’s services left the administration with no choice but to expand the Center, along with its offices and branches, and to hire additional faculty to meet the ever-rising public need for its counseling, therapy services and educational training.
Construction commenced commenced several months ago, and with renovations at Pele Yoetz Center completed, the new offices and departments were inaugurated last month in a festive Chanukas Habayis and Kvias Mezuzos event. The Spinka Rebbe shlit”a arrived especially from America to attend the celebration, and the event drew great positive feedback from administrators and educators in mosdos Torah and chinuch who have been following Pele Yoetz’s expansion and looking forward to the day when they will be able to draw the benefits of its services in a new, spacious setting.
The Chanukas Habayis and Kvias Mezuzos, which took place during the last days of Chanukah, was attended by all branch directors and employees of Pele Yoetz Center. Hagaon Harav Dovid Levy shlit”a, Nasi of Pele Yoetz, delivered the keynote address, following by Pele Yoetz Center Board Member Rabbi Asher Zelig Oshry shlit”a.
Visiting from America, the Spinka Rebbe shlit”a, father and patron of Pele Yoetz Center, addressed the audience, tying together the significance of the event and avodas hakodesh carried out by Pele Yoetz to the sanctity of Chanukah. He expressed that “what is unique about the festival of Chanukah is that beyond the halachah of ‘ner ish u’veiso’, every member of the family lights as well. This conveys a deep lesson in chinuch—the obligation incumbent upon each and every one of us to act and stimulate others to act, because every individual has a special tafkid that is uniquely his to fulfill.”
Hagaon Harav Dovid Levy shlit”a, Nasi of Pele Yoetz, spoke of the multiple roles carried out by Pele Yoetz Center’s department directors and their vast experience accumulated of many years of intense emotional connection to the field, along with a constant yearning for learning and growth. These feelings, he expressed, are contagious—inspiring both the therapists and patients who appreciate the gravity that the directors assign to their sacred roles and stimulating them to work hard to achieve their goals. In the course of his speech, Rav Levy emphasized the “importance of zerizus in this avodas hakodesh, a quality that’s manifest in every department in the Center.”
Highlighting the momentous occasion of the the Chanukas Habayis, Rav Levy quoted the words of Chazal, “‘A beautiful residence expands man’s [peace of] mind,’ and this has both a material and spiritual impact that brings about yishuv hadaas and the ability to devote oneself wholeheartedly to the task. This is especially true during these days of Chanukah, which express the concept of a little bit of light banishing great darkness. All this is made possible by the Spinka Rebbe shlit”a whose fortress extends from the United States until Yerushalayim, bringing solutions and relief to many chinuch dilemmas in Ir Hakodesh. May he draw blessing from Hashem, and may they support his righteous endeavors.”
After Rav Levy’s warm brachos to the Rebbe shlit”a, Rabbi Menachem Sheinberger, CEO of Pele Yoetz, offered a beautiful visual presentation of Pele Yoetz’s new wings and departments, revealing small rays of the brilliant light that Pele Yoetz radiates to thousands of individuals and families in need of consultation and guidance.
The event concluded with the Kvias Mezuzos, symbolizing the exciting trend of growth and advancement at Pele Yoetz, which brings relief and peace of mind to thousands of families in Yerushalayim.
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