Introduction Have you ever tried to give, expecting to feel good about your kindness, and come out completely drained? From physical to emotional to spiritual, we all give in our everyday lives. Physically, we’ve cooked meals for new mothers and helped new couples set up their apartments. Emotionally, we’ve visited lonely seniors and listened to
Medical Esthetician No one really wants to discuss the fears they associate with aging; the reason I’m choosing a topic most dread is because Chassidus provides powerful tools for not only easing our deepest fears concerning aging, but shows us how we can turn those fears around to create a paradigm shift that will bring
Introduction: We will address an issue which many people across the wide spectrum (learned, layman, unaffiliated etc.) face; not having a enthusiasm and enjoyment when engaging in spiritual and G-dly matters. This issue can be solved with something that is not so known; a Chassidic song. This essay is based on 2 concepts in Chassidus;
Three months ago I thought I knew how to ride a roller coaster, now I realize I’m only learning… It’s a lesson my almost 3 month old daughter Shaina, in critical condition since birth, has taught me by virtue of being and fighting. Medical staff, family, friends, strangers and fellow PICU parents alike have joined
Each person is called an ‘olam katan,’-a miniature world. As someone whose Jewish life has spanned the 20th and 21st century, with all its individual and concomitant social challenges, I have struggled to find a sense of meaning and purpose in ‘my olam katan,’ and have been guided primarily from above in that endeavor. I
Of all the bumps in the road of life, what are often the most harmful are also the hardest to detect. In this essay I intend to address a specific strain of apathy, or sense of futility- one that arises from witnessing someone else, seemingly through no special effort on their part, achieving much more
First Place Winner of MyLife: Chassidus Applied 2018 Upon perusing the current psychological and self-help landscape, one will recurrently encounter mentions of authenticity and vulnerability. One can say they’ve become buzzwords of late. This essay will attempt to define the oft-misunderstood term, examine its objective value through the lens of Chassidus and psychology, understand its
Third Place Winner of MyLife: Chassidus Applied 2018 “The Aibishter (G-d) punished you with a good head!” –R’ Mendel Futerfas to R’ Pinye Korf I. Introduction Before anything else (though sometimes we learn it only after everything else) Chassidus teaches us that sometimes a notion we see as self-evident is not always the only way
Student Winner of MyLife: Chassidus Applied 2018 Introduction When we make assessments about the characters of other people based on limited information, this is judgment. It doesn’t always need to be a negative thing, but more often than not, it is human nature to hone in on the faults in others rather than on their
MyLife Essay Contest 2018 Objective This essay sets out to formulate a holistic approach to eating, by understanding the spiritual centrality of food in Jewish thought, ritual, and culture. The 800 Pound Diet in the Room A bizarre phenomenon is unfolding in societies today: a cultural obsession with weight-loss, and a concurring growing obesity epidemic.
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