Ilan Casper is excited to have joined NCSY Kollel team for this summer and he is loving it. Over the past year Ilan has served as the Rosh Kollel of the TABC Friday Alumni Kollel where he learns with 9th and 10th graders. Ilan is from Teaneck, NJ and has been studying pre-engineering in Yeshiva University for the past three years. He will be attending Columbia in September as part of the YU-Columbia Combined Plan Program.
Ilan is privileged to have Eli Donaty (Baltimore, MD), Yitzchak Greenberg (Teaneck, NJ), Yonatan Plotsker (West Hempstead NY), Ezra Quint (Jamica Estates, NY), Yaacov Schneider (West Hempstead, NY) and Yehuda Simon (Flushing, NY) in his chabura.
The chabura is learning through the mitzvot aseh of shabbos, starting from erev shabbos with hadlakat neirot and moving through havdalah and melava malka. Besides for understanding and seeing what we practice on shabbos in the future come alive through the text, the goal is to gain a better appreciation for the beauty of shabbos. Whenever one spends time learning about a particular chag, that chag becomes real with meaning. By learning the through the positive mitzvot of shabbos, the special day will become more meaningful.
“Focusing on the positive aspects of shabbos instead of restrictions has added a unique perspective of shabbos, revealing a deeper meaning to shabbos.” – Yaakov Schnieder.
