ESSAYS| 2020

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Gray World

Chaya Solika Garbose

Creative 2020 / Finalists

Composed by: Chaya Solika Garbose Gray World is a song about the struggle to navigate through a world in which what is good and what is bad is hard to differentiate. This dilemma can only be resolved through the study of Tanya, as a lyric in the song states, “Please give me shelter, a map

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But Why?

Tzivia Greenbaum

Essays 2020 / Finalists

Questions are integral to our interpersonal, business and academic lives. Asking questions allows us to achieve things as mundane as clarifying tasks, to probing the deeper meaning of reality. This essay aims to explore the status of questions in the doctrines of Chassidic thought,. The ideas in this essay were inspired by a letter from

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Look Up When Down

Rochele Rodal

Creative 2020 / Finalists

A mothers reach, focusing on continuation As she transmits knowledge to the next generation The challenges are many, yet opportunities abound Chassidus gives you the tools to change your life around When you feel you have no worth No reason for being on this earth You think you’ve done everything wrong You try really hard

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Accept or Expect? Can We Do Both?

Mushka Feldman

Essays 2020 / Finalists

Something is being lost in the translation. The numbers just aren’t adding up. With all the effort that educators around the world are investing, how are so many children still falling through the cracks? As much progress as we’re making, so many teenagers are still struggling with feeling misunderstood by their parents and teachers. Words

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First, Love Yourself

Sara Friedman

Essays 2020 / Finalists

85% of the world’s population is affected by low self esteem.[1] That’s right, 85 out of every hundred people do not have enough self-respect. They doubt their own value and  deem themselves undeserving of their own confidence. This 85% is not to be taken lightly. It represents over 6.4 billion people whose self-doubt is getting

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Getting In Shape – For the Final Redemption!

Chaya Miriam Moline

Essays 2020 / Finalists

The background topic of this essay is the unparalleled success of two opposite-pole industries in the US: The ever-thriving food industry, and the brazenly successful diet industry, both paragons of unmatched revenue. It offers insight on how our own million-year observances are a shield and a response to these challenges. With this background, the focus

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Infusion

Rivky Taichman

Creative 2020 / Finalists

Creative Art Piece Oil on Canvas Moshe sent the spies to Israel requesting of them to go search and see if there was a tree in the land… Rashi explains that the tree represents the man that is meritorious for his generation, the Tzaddik.1 The Tzaddik is also one of the letters of the Hebrew

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