Yeshiva University High School For Boys - Elchanite Yearbook (New York, NY)

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A message from the President to the Graduating Class As you terminate your High School education at Talmudical Academy, I extend to you sincerest congratulations on your past achievements and wish you every success in your future endeavors. Above all, I hope that you will always remember and be guided by the indigenous principles which characterize your Alma Mater. The Talmudical Academy was the first school of Yeshiva University that sought to teach human knowledge - the arts and the sciences - in combination with the moral and spiritual precepts based upon the divine and universal law of the Torah. I have abiding faith that, in the years to come, as you expand your acquisition and understanding of human knowledge, so also will you grow in knowledge and under- standing of the spiritual and ethical values, and that you will govern your lives by the standards of Torah. Many of you are planning to continue your education here at Yeshiva University, and I am looking forward to watching your progress at the institution. But I hope that each one of you will remain a ben ha-yeshiva in spirit and deed, using your education as a means to consecrated service to G-d and your fellow man. Sincerely, SAMUEL BELKIN President, Yefbiwz U rziverrity

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A message from Dr. Shelly R. Saphire Principal Dear Graduates: On this joyous occasion in your lives, when you have reached an important milestone in your re ararion for the fullness of the da s to come, P , Y I am happy to greet you and to wish you well. You have completed successfully the course of studies prescribed in the English and Hebrew departments in our High School - some with distinction - all with credit to yourselves, your parents, and to our great institution. During the most formative years of your lives, you have actively participated in the harmonious blending and fusion of jewish lore and secular learning. You have received instruction not only in the subjects contained in the curriculum of the public high schools, such as English, foreign languages, science, mathematics, social studies and the like, but also by precept and example, you have learned the message and the meaning of our priceless heritage - the concepts, teachings, traditions, and ideals of universal Israel. Wliether you choose as your life's work some phase of human knowledge and dedicate yourselves to study and teaching, or give your energies to the fields of daily human needs, or devote yourselves to the realm of the spirit, remember the philos- ophy and the way of life that you have been taught here. Although the problems that you, as Jews, must face in this confused world are not always clear, you must, each and all of you, cling to those elements of our cultural past that have made us great as a people. It is upon these cultural backgrounds which are strongly rooted in our study of the Torah, and not false values and strange ideologies, that you must build your personalities and your future lives. You, graduates of Talmudical Academy, have had an education different from that of the rest of the jewish youth in this country. You have had an opportunity to learn the value and significance of intense jewish study, and to gain a deeper insight into a truer understanding of the jewish consciousness and soul. With this great common bond, you are strengthened to withstand the material influences of the time, and are less prone to fall prey to the disintegrating forces which are threatening to sweep away everything that is dear and precious in life. Strengthen that bond, united, assert yourselves and your influence in the lives of our youth, so that by your example you may prove that these years in Talmudical Academy have not been in vain, and that the instruction and the inspiration you re- ceived here, shall be a blessing to you and to those who are to be influenced by you. Continue to be one with the Yeshiva, to accept and to feel its influence. Unite under the banner of ideals for which your school stands so that its spirit may widen and deepen a current of faith and culture in American Jewry. SHELLY R. SAPHIRE Principal