Ученик отказывается идти в синагогу из-за проблем с чтением

When a boy hits a wall in Gemara learning, it may be a hidden reading issue It’s Yom Kippur, but ten-year-old Chaim refuses to go to shul. What’s the point when you can barely read? It had been the background — and foreground — of his life since he started first grade. Chaim started out like the rest of his classmates, innocent and hopeful and young, obediently repeating “Beis says ‘b’!” and scribbling cutout letters with swirls of crayon. But unlike his classmates, the sounds and letters didn’t magically transform into an adorable first-grader proudly chanting his first pesukim in Chumash. Instead, he flung his homework sheets on the floor and screamed furiously, “I hate school and I hate Chumash!” “Please, Chaim. It’s just one pasuk. Your rebbi said he’ll give you a big prize!” his mother tried. Chaim wouldn’t. But no one realized — until he was in fifth grade — that he actually couldn’t. Create a free account to keep reading.