[VIDEO & PHOTOS BELOW] The eleventh Annual Agudath Israel Winter Yarchei Kallah at the Ramada Renaissance hotel in Yerushalayim took off to great start with a ‘hachana seder limud’, as participants prepared to hear divrei psicha from HaRav Moshe Shapiro, Rosh HaYeshiva Shev Shmatsa. R’ Shlomo Gottesman and R’ Gedaliah Weinberger then delivered opening remarks to the olam followed by a hakdama shiur by HaRav Asher Weiss, Av Beis Din Darchei Horaha and Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah.

The evening concluded with maariv followed by a seder limud.

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HaRav Moshe Shapiro, Rosh HaYeshiva Shev Shmatsa, delivers divrei pesicha and machshava during day 1 of the eleventh Annual Agudath Israel Winter Yarchei Kallah at the Ramada Renaissance hotel in Yerushalayim (Yehuda Boltshauser – Kuvien Images)

R’ Shlomo Gottesman and R’ Gedaliah Weinberger deliver opening remarks during day 1 of the eleventh Annual Agudath Israel Winter Yarchei Kallah at the Ramada Renaissance hotel in Yerushalayim (Yehuda Boltshauser – Kuvien Images)

HaRav Asher Weiss, Av Beis Din Darchei Horaha and Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah delivers a hakdama shiur during day 1 of the eleventh Annual Agudath Israel Winter Yarchei Kallah at the Ramada Renaissance hotel in Yerushalayim (Yehuda Boltshauser – Kuvien Images)