A program developed by a group of bochurim Shluchim in Yeshiva College in Melbourne, aimed to give high school students critical skills for learning the Rebbe’s Sichos in the original Yiddish, has gained worldwide popularity.
The unique program, entitled ‘Back2Basics,’ gives students basic Yiddish skills as well as the tools to learn the Rebbe’s Sichos, so they can continue to learn on their own in the future.
What began with students learning from copies of the Sicha and a list of Yiddish word translations and explanations of difficult concepts, soon evolved into participants receiving professionally designed booklets. The number of attendees at the program grew each week as well, with students steadily advancing in their skills.
The entire community of Melbourne took advantage of this unique opportunity and various schools and individuals began using the booklets. Many adults who never had the chance to learn Yiddish when they were younger, viewed the booklets as a resource to finally do so.
Word of the program’s success soon spread to the school in Sydney, where it was implemented and became extremely popular as well. Soon, schools and Yeshivas across the globe found out about this new resource and also wanted to use it to the benefit of their students. Programs such as Myshliach, YSP, and various others have used Back2Basics to familiarize the students with the Rebbe’s Sichos and give them the unique opportunity to learn on their own.
As one student said, “Learning the Sichos in their original form is something that everyone would love to be able to do, Back2Basics has made it available for just about anybody.”
The program’s booklet has several features:
Translations: A collection of translated words that someone with very limited Yiddish would find difficult.
Classical Concepts: An overview of the entire Sicha, broken down into summaries of each individual concept.
Getting Started: A selected piece of the Sicha with every word translated. This part is geared for the beginner that is just starting to read Yiddish, to familiarize him with how the words flow.
Show Off Your Knowledge: Review Questions, which generally cover the main ideas discussed in the Sicha.
If you would like to receive the booklet weekly through email, contact [email protected]
Thanks to all the brothers who bring the back2basics home – it’s really amazing. before, if we wanted to learn something the most we could manage was a mayein chai but with this we can learn a sicha by ourselves – incredible feeling!
not your avaerage bloke
grandpa and grandma are proud of your achievments. we love you. miss you. keep up the good work. GRANDPA
email [email protected]
especially the one of the sicho with the cup soup
it should say who made it
YISROEL ROSENBAUM
this is an amazing program and thank you for making it available to the public
A HUGE Yasher Koach is extended to Dovid Rachmani Menachem Aron and Leibel Krinsky for their untiring dedication to the success of this project despite their extremely busy schedules. May you both be blessed with an abundance of revealed good.
May we no longer need to learn about the deeper aspect of Golus, and may we finally see the fruit that it will bear, the coming of Moshiach Mamash NOW!!
Thank you so much for contributing so much to the Melbourne community & in fact to the whole world.
Yeshivah is so lucky to have you.
Keep up the wonderful work, & continue inspiring & impacting so many others.
Thank you so much.
well done and great nwork, you guys are doing great work. hatzlacha on the upcoming tishrei program.
for winning the set of Igros.
Your relatives around the world
I saw all four nephews! You guys are amazing, we love you sooooo much and are looking forward to your visits:)
Keep up the amazing stuff!
Love cousin Phil!!
The greatest graphic designer ever, that puts in hrs every week to make the booklet look so beautiful. everyone is very thankful!
great to see you Menachem Mendel and Dovi B”H.
for all the work and effort you put into our boys!! Your devotion and dedication is truly appreciated and recognised!!
you rock
hey dave !!! awesome
boston to melbourne from LK
you have an AMAZING z’chus to have brought this into being;the work alone must demand much sacrafice……..
keep it up,CHAZAK V’EMOTZ,we are all indebted to you………..
thank you SO much
poshut taking over the world!
Avremel Rosenfeld We are sooo proud of you.
Keep it up
I thank the Aibisher for the Naches even from the distance – Engels and Reichers
Booba
dave the brave kicks!!
Go Leibel, Meir avner, Levi and Arele you guys rock the house! Very nice Idea!
We misssss you levi!!!!
Love, ur sisters :))
Levi looks like ur table over there is having a good time learning- obviously with the best dude around that goes without saying~ keep up the great work!
I saw the work done on the Sicha, It’s Gevaldik!
Great work LEvi eZAGUI!
yasher koach dovid!
the YC shluchim in melbourne are really amazing guys!!
go dovid rachmani!!!