ESSAYS| 2018

ESSAYSss| English

Identity-Driven Circumstances

Shmuel Shuchat, Montreal, Canada

Essays 2018

Many of us have, at one point, challenged ourselves to achieve a life-defining goal. A majority have reached the point of creating a plan to achieve that goal. Some of us have even followed that plan for a time. But how many of us have actually achieved our goals. Through the prism of a fascinating

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The Answer Within

Shmulik Fogelman, Worcester, Massachusetts 

Essays 2018

How to deal with life’s decisions, dilemmas and challenges! Based on the concepts explained in Chassidus on: “Bishvili Nivro Hooilom”, MeHashem Mitzadei Gever Kononu” & “Teves – Choidesh SheHaguf Neheneh Min HaGuf”. We often come across different dilemmas in life. We find ourselves needing to make big decisions. At times, it may be regarding choosing

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The Journey out of Depression

Leah Piekarski, Brooklyn

Essays 2018

Depression has always been a constant problem in our society, as we continuously modernize ourselves and evolve, so does it spread. The constant connectivity to others and the vast information that electronic devices and the internet provides to us, makes us more greedy for instant gratification through likes and upvotes. With the luxury we’ve acquired

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Precious Gems

Chaya Mushka Litzman, Spring Valley, NY

Essays 2018

A Chabad Chossid strives to become a better person. This a constant struggle that is an encountered in day to day life. With the help of our Rebbeim, we are able to conquer our daily struggles. One example of a struggle, is, judging favorably. It is hard when you only see something from the outside,

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Beyond the Thought to Instinct

F. Chedva Shagalov, Brooklyn, NY

Essays 2018

In today’s day and age, we are taught that everything is about understanding. Therefore, if we don’t understand something to be right – we shouldn’t do it. We are taught that our mind needs to control our heart (מוח שליט על הלב” (תניא”. Yet if such is the case, what do we do at the

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The Power of Speech and Emotion

Helena Peiser, Memphis

Essays 2018

Words of speech what is it? Hashem’s given us the ability to speak, see and hear every bit of feeling that we feel through our emotions and actions. There was a resident of Mezhibuzh who got into a quarrel with another while in the Baal Shem-Tov’s Shul. He shouted to pieces like a fish. The

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Tricky Reality

Aviv Aharon Illoz, Morristown, NJ

Essays 2018

The way we usually understand “Nature” is that G-d runs the world according to the world’s patterns, and they are important to Him. The result of seeing reality in this way could be emotionally, psychologically and even physically harming to a person. If nature is the end all be all, and it tells me that

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Every Moment – A Renewed Creation to Celebrate

Baruch Elkins, Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Essays 2018

בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ The best manner to begin this humble work is to quote the first 7 words of the Holy Torah. The Chassidic concept of continuous, uninterrupted and unending creation by The Eibishte so beautifully presented by The Alter Rebbe in Chapter 2 of his Tanya’s Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah is

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You ARE your Struggles

Sara Malka Fox, Pretoria, South Africa

Essays 2018 / Mentor / Stress

The many waters came gushing at him, each one with a heightened force and each one with an ominous name. His arms were flailing as the waters encompassed him. Financial issues, lack of self-esteem, inadequacy, each tidal wave punched him in the stomach and filled him with despair. Drowning. He felt himself succumbing to the

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