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The story of the director of the Sunday school

Sonya Koplevatskaya is the director of the Sunday school “beit-Ohr” and the teacher of music. She loves her pupils and her pupils love her altogether – with parents and friends – they sing Yiddish songs.

Her story gives faith and hope to many women..

For a long time, for almost 10 years she and her husband didn't have children. Medical treatment didn't give any results.

And Sonya plunged into work: she taught theory and history of music in children musical school, worked much and made her work the main thing in her life. But the feeling of hopelessness didn't leave her.

In 1993 she was invited to work in the Sunday school at the synagogue to learn Jewish songs with pupils.

She was happy – when she was a child there were no such schools then.

She got new friends – Lena and Igor Tsihanovskys, who became her first teachers of tradition and helped much in her work.

That noisy and merry home of “Beit-Ohr”, as the teachers called it, became her family. She loved her pupils, her children. But the lessons got over and the pupils went home to their parents. The time was passing and the hope that she and Nahum would have their own child almost dies. But Lena was near and in far America – their common friend Ofra Churns. They told her: “Believe, the Lord loves you, you should help him a little: begin to do something for Him”. And Sonya began to “do something”: she recited a special prayer, presented by Over, observed Sabbath and the commandment of “purity of the family”, stopped eating treph. After a year and a half Lena left for America and said before departure: “Sonya! Maybe you should go to doctors once more?”

And Sonya began medical investigation for the last, as she had decided, time. It was November 1996. And in February 1997 when not all the analyses were made she was told: “You will have a baby”. In November 1997 a boy was born, a brit was made and he was given the name of Avrum-David. The telephone didn't stop ringing: pupils, their parents, teachers from schools and their parents also were phoning and congratulating Sonya.