At Carlos & Gabby’s, HALB kids learn a lesson in Torah’s value

Sometimes we get caught up in the negative and forget how much good there is in our community.

We are seven boys from HALB Middle School who just finished a special program, in which we learned hundreds of mishnayos in our spare time. Now, we’re going out for a special dinner at Carlos and Gabby’s with our rebbe.

While we were at the counter deciding what we would order, a nice man asked us what yeshiva we were from and why we were there with our rebbe after school. We told him that we were receiving our reward for learning a massive number of mishnayos.

After placing our orders and sitting at our table, our rebbe came to us with that same man smiling from ear to ear. As our rebbe was about to pay for our order, this man quickly gave the cashier his own credit card so that he could pay for our food. Even though the rebbe tried to stop him, he insisted on paying. He said that it was his honor to have a small part in our unbelievable learning.

The man didn’t want to make a big deal about it, but our rebbe told him that it was important for us, his students, to realize how people value Torah and those who learn it. We would like to thank this person not only for dinner that night, but also for teaching us an important lesson on the value of Torah and community.

Hungry for more Torah and Carlos and Gabby’s!

Nadav Chelst, Elie Goldfarb, Ariel Gross, Eitan Katz, Zachary Rabe, Jeremy  Sicklick and Joe Sicklick, Rabbi Moish Steinberg’s fifth graders.