President of the State Yitzhak Herzog hosted today (Sunday) children participating in the 'Israeli Talmud' project from the 'Shevat Sofer' school, for a study talk in honor of the soul of the late Yam'm fighter Noam Raz, who was laid to rest, as well as in honor of the soul of the president's mother, Ora Herzog, may God bless her.
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During the meeting, the students spoke with the President and shared with him what they learned at school about his father, President Chaim Herzog, his mother Ora Herzog, and his grandfather, the former Chief Rabbi, Yitzhak Isaac Halevi Herzog.
One of the students shared with the President: "We were privileged to learn about your grandfather, after whom you are named, and your grandmother, the late Rebbetzin Sarah. We were privileged to learn about your dear parents, the sixth President Chaim Herzog, the late, and your mother, Ora Herzog, the late, who unfortunately passed away this year. We learned about your work for the country, and we all want to wish you great success in your role in leading the State of Israel to unity, love of Israel, and love of Torah.""
Or, a first-grade student, told the president that he learned about Rabbi Herzog and his significant legacy of saving children during and after the Holocaust.
The president told Laor: "The children were in shelters after their parents disappeared. My grandfather rescued children from the Holocaust and returned them to the people of Israel. Congratulations on your knowledge, it moves me very much.".
Afterwards, the students gave the president the study sheet, which deals with the character of his grandfather and parents.
""May you continue to lead us," one of the boys greeted the president - and then blessed "the family of Levi with a priestly blessing. May he bless you...""
The excited president told the children: "You are studying Israeli Talmud, it is really very, very complicated to study Israeli Talmud. My grandfather, Rabbi Herzog, knew the Talmud by heart at the age of 16. They would tell him a sentence, he would remember in which tractate and on which page and in which paragraph it was written. But that's because he had a special, photographic memory, which caused him to be ordained to the rabbinate at the age of 17, there are no such things.
""The Talmud is an amazing thing to study. It is a great pleasure to know it, and I think that the great wisdom of the Jewish people stems from this study and the fresh weighing and the debate and the questioning and the casting of doubt. That is the great thing about the Talmud.".
The president said: "Because I am a Levite, in the synagogue in Tzahala I wash my hands, but in Jerusalem I don't because the Chief Rabbis, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu and Rabbi Avraham Shapira, zt"l, told my father not to do it, and Rabbi Druckman, who will be a good friend, also told me that he told my father that - so I continue in that tradition.".
One of the students recited Kaddish for the repose of the soul of the IDF soldier Noam Raz. Afterwards, the student Or presented the president with a prayer for the peace of the IDF soldiers, written by his father as a scribe and decorated with drawings by his mother.
