About Lamplighters // Lamplighters Yeshivah Parent Handbook
About
Lamplighters Yeshivah
It Starts with One
“Souls are ready and waiting
to be kindled… to help them
shine is the role of a Jew.”
-- the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on being a Lamplighter
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To be a Jew is to be a light unto others. Yet to shine unto
others, one must first discover the full spectrum of light
within oneself and the surrounding world. This process
and discovery is the essence of Jewish education. There is a cost to this loss of focus-- When a child’s
unique identity is left undeveloped, untapped, un-
known, a lifetime reflecting other people’s light will not
enable him or her to shine.
Some look to academic benchmarks and skills acquisi-
tion as measures of success. Bricks-and-mortar are cer-
tainly celebrated - at times more so even than the lives
being built within. In all this, the true objective of To-
rah education can be forgotten: to provide a transfor-
mative experience in which a child’s deepest essence is
revealed and actualized. Which is why we at Lamplighters Yeshivah accept
nothing less than nurturing every student’s Divine
spark into a glorious, bright, joyous flame - one that
will guide them through the journey of life and serve as
a warm and inspiring beacon to all those around them.
Welcome to our school and our family.