ESSAYS| 2020

ESSAYSss| Creative 2020

Light: A Series

Rivka Einav

Creative 2020 / Finalists

“Let there be light,” from the beginning, before I began, there it started. An aspiration. A space, It fell and broke, Into darkness, Fragments, Light. They told me there are pieces of light, in small places if searched for. They told me, light couldn’t always fit within the vessel. Words, never a true expression of

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Diving Through Dimensions

Mushka Heidingsfeld

Creative 2020 / Finalists

A Lesson Plan geared for 6th-8th Graders  This lesson covers the concepts of the 4 worlds (or dimensions)- Atzilus, Briah, Yetzirah and Asiya, Seder Hishtalshlus (the “cause and effect” funnel-like system with which G-d creates the world) and Tzimtzum (how G-d contracts His light to create the various dimensions with different levels of G-dliness revealed

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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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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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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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