ESSAYS| 2015

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Hope In The Face Of Challenge

by Michal Morgenstern

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest Finalist Chapter One: WAR It was an ordinary Thursday evening in July. Haifa, Israel. Dinner and bath time. Picture a tired, pregnant Mommy – me, after a long day at work, outnumbered by four lively youngsters. My dear husband Eliezer – still out studying for exams. It’s late. I’m trying to get the

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Speak What You Mean; Mean What You Speak

by Chelsea Mika Shar

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest Finalist The Importance of Silence, Thinking, ‘Sorting & Separating.’ “To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a special heart that listens.”1 – Lubavitcher Rebbe Introduction No words can truly describe the feeling the Rebbe’s words instil in

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The Power Of Positive Thinking

By Yitzchak Winner

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest Finalist “Tracht gut vet zien gut” – Think Good and it will be Good. The Goal: To apply Positive Thinking according to Chassidus in our lives. The Thesis: Using various sources and thoughts process to achieve true positive thinking. The Struggle: Thinking positive while balancing the realities of life and of our personal

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The Power Of Parable

by Mendel Rubin

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest Finalist Applied Chassidus should be a given but sadly it is not. Even among avid students of Chassidus, there is often a disconnect between studied texts and real-world realities. There ought to be harmony and synthesis between physical and spiritual, esoteric ideas and human experience. However, many have trouble making these connections, as

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The Power Of Mystery

by Yakov Danishefsky

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest “The world endures only by virtue of the secret” – Zohar, 3:128a, Idra Rabba “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” – Elie

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When Failure Is Really Success

by Sholom Kesselman

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest We all fail every now and then. We fall victim to impulses like temptation and pride and we make poor choices that we know are wrong. With time, these failures add up and we find ourselves “shlepping” them along throughout life, like heavy baggage weighing down on our consciousnesses. In the case of

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Mending Broken Vessels

by Dina Hendel

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest Healing Parenting Advice How do I deal with a challenging child?  How can I educate a resistant student? How do I reach out to a rebellious teenager or adult?  And, perhaps most personally, how can I rebound when I feel disillusioned or disappointed with myself? These are questions that many of us grapple

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Against Our Nature, But The Ultimate Pleasure

by Zvi Lipchik

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest If you would ask a thousand people: “What is something that you wish that you didn’t have to do, and you hate doing, but you do it anyway, because it is necessary?” You would probably get some interesting answers.  One answer which you’d almost never hear is “nothing.” As adults, we have accepted

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Effecting Change

by Chanie Wilhelm

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest Why Knowledge Really IS Power Nearly 45% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions. Of these, a full 25% can’t stick with them past one week. And just 8% of those resolutions are actually achieved.1  A resolution is usually a commitment to self-improvement2, which necessitates a change from the status quo. It is obvious, then,

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להכיר, להעריך, לנתב: מבט חסידי-יישומי על AD(H)D — הפרעת קשב וריכוז
A Chassidic Approach to AD(H)D- Powerful Energies in Small Containers

by Shifi Goldfarb

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest Finalist מבוא- תקציר נתקלים בה בכל אוכלוסיה, בכל גיל, כמעט בכל כיתה בבתי הספר. למעלה מ7% מאוכלוסיית הילדים בארה”ב מטופלים תרופתית בניסיון להתמודד איתה. יהיו שיכנו אותה ‘התסמונת של הדור’- הפרעת קשב וריכוז, AD(H)D . הסובלים מההפרעה מתארים תחושת תסכול קבוע המלווה אותם במשך חייהם, תחושה של פוטנציאל גבוה מהרגיל המלווה, באופן פרדוקסלי,

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