SOY & TAC Begin Rosh Chodesh Shiur Series

On Wednesday evening, October 6^th, two hundred fifty students packed into Weisberg Commons for the first ever joint SOY/TAC coed shiur. The shiur served as the initiation to a monthly Rosh Hodesh lecture series. The featured speakers were Rav Hochberg and Rav Schachter.

Rav Hochberg gave a moving lecture on the Tzelem Elokim between a man and a woman, and many noted that the shiur almost paralleled a lecture from the hit book "Men are From Mars Women Are from Venus." Rav Schachter spoke about Megilat Kohelet, focusing on the reason Kohelet tells us there is an impetus behind everything in this world. Rav Schachter emphasized, "even Spider webs were created for a reason because they saved Dovid HaMelech. From this we can see that everything has its purpose." After Schachter's riveting shiur, Dougies was served to the crowd.

When asked why he started a coed shiur, Aton Holzer, President of SOY, answered, "The singles problem in the Jewish community has reached epic proportions, and SOY must take the initiative in addressing this issue."

This shiur has only been a small representation of what SOY has done this year. For the first time ever, a JSS Rabbi gave the Wednesday night Sichas Mussar in the Main Beit Medrash. Students expressed their satisfaction in the fact that Rav Yudin was able to be appreciated by the entire Yeshiva, not only JSS students. The students also noted that SOY in conjunction with the other Judaic studies student councils, has been trying to infuse more achdut into YU, further enhancing the "yeshiva" aspect of Yeshiva University.