ESSAYS| 2017

ESSAYSss| Essays 2017

Resurrection
סוגיות עמוקות בחסידות על עולם התחיה מופשטות ומבוארות

By אליהו שוויכה, Tel Aviv, Israel

Essays 2017

MyLife Essay Contest 2017 סוגיות עמוקות בחסידות על עולם התחיה מופשטות ומבוארות (פרסמתי את זה בשנת תשס”ט בקובץ שיצא לאור בארץ בשם עולם התחיה וכעת נערך עם כמה הוספות) הזמן שלאחר ביאת המשיח מורכב משתי תקופות כלליות: הראשונה – הזמן שעד תחיית המתים המכונה תקופת ימות המשיח, והשניה – הזמן שלאחר תחיית המתים שכמה כינויים

Read More

The Battle of the Two Souls

By Miri Shanowitz, Brooklyn, NY

Essays 2017

MyLife Essay Contest 2017 In the times of the Alter Rebbe, people came for advice and direction of how to perfect their service to G-d. The Alter Rebbe answered each one of them according to their needs. As the amount of people  increased,  there  was not enough time in the day to individually answer each

Read More

Retain Jewish Pride in a Modern Society

By Mendeli Allouche, Scottsdale, Arizona

Essays 2017

MyLife Essay Contest 2017 Challenge One of the most common struggles living as a religious Jew in a modern society is “fitting in.” Living amongst non-Jewish people, and furthermore interacting with them, working with them and befriending them can lead us to be shy and feel left out. It is for this reason that so many have

Read More

Are you comfortable?

By Benjamin Newmark, Naples, FL

Essays 2017

MyLife Essay Contest 2017 I ask you a question: are you comfortable? are you comfortable where you are holding with your Yidishkiet?….your level of observance?….the progress you have made?….the Mitzvot and learning you have done? What is comfortable? If we were playing charades how would we show what comfortable looks like?  Most likely a physical

Read More

Just as Yourself

By Chaya Katz, Surfside, FL

Essays 2017

MyLife Essay Contest 2017 Love someone just as you love yourself . . . how is that possible? I’m so into myself; how I look, how I talk, how I act. We can go on and on. If I’m so into my own self, how am I, this person who thinks all day about myself, able to

Read More

Dispelling Darkness with Kindness

By Helena Peiser, Memphis, TN

Essays 2017

MyLife Essay Contest 2017 “A Little Bit of Light Dispels a lot of Darkness”, (Rabbi Schneur Zalman Of Liadi) A little bit of Torah can diffuse confusion and depression… A few years ago, I was looking for a way to find some learning to help overcome my obstacle of sadness and loneliness. I grew up in

Read More

MLC Essay Contest Musings

By Chana Perman, Toronto, Canada

Essays 2017

MyLife Essay Contest 2017 Each year, upon seeing ‘MLC essay contest’ I intend to enter and win (Well can’t I try my best?) But the always-knowing voice Drones straight through my head For G-d ‘s sake! – there be scholars Whose wisdom, widely read One can’t compete with those Possessing years of wisdom under belt

Read More

Chassidus and the Arts

By Devorah Eber, Brooklyn, NY

Essays 2017

MyLife Essay Contest 2017 Art is an expression of the soul and its innermost emotions. Not always is it understood, and in most cases it’s understood by no one but the artist themselves. This is because shift in anything that’s usual is hard to accept, and because people tend to look at new or peculiar

Read More

Kabbalah Accommodates

By Anthony Mallgren, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Essays 2017

MyLife Essay Contest 2017 Man seems generally contrary man. Written records signal declining age; representative government incorporated contrarianism; etymology seemingly changed. Incentives seemingly encourage opposition; publication seems imposing; persons seem generally disagreeable. Shabbat provides reactive amerlioration; such a reliant approach may waste. Kosher certification accomodates more reliable preparation; populous, currency and distribution seems contrare. Leaving

Read More

Retroactive Healing: It’s in Our D.N.A.

By Nechama Dina Zwiebel, Kingston, Pennsylvania

Essays 2017 / Finalists

MyLife Essay Contest 2018 Contemporary Issue: Challenges and Healing in all relationships “Been there, done THAT!” “I wish I could go back to before that happened!” “If only I could do it all over again!” “I wish we could still be friends.” “I wish that never happened…!” This is wishful thinking, but not reality –

Read More