ESSAYS| 2017

ESSAYSss| English

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 –

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“SET” for Success: Life-Changing Chassidic Tools

By Nechama Dina Hendel, New Haven, Connecticut

Essays 2016

MyLife Essay Contest 2016 Contemporary Issue: Searching for Success Success is one of the most desired human attainments.  If you google “success,” hundreds of books and articles will surface, proving how widely its formula is sought after and explored. And, yet, it often seems elusive.  Many people struggle with failure at work, disappointment in relationships,

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The Soul: A Source of Inherent Self Worth

By Shaul Wolf, Brooklyn, NY

Essays 2016 / Student Winners

MyLife Essay Contest 2016 Abstract: Anxiety is the most common mental health condition in the USA, closely followed by depression. A staggering 40 million adults are effected by anxiety disorders – 18% of the population, and an equally unsettling 14.8 million adults are effected by depression – 6.7% of the population. Tens of billions of

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Loneliness: Fate or Destiny?

By Levi Liberow, Brooklyn, NY

Essays 2016

The Man of Faith is Lonely No More MyLife Essay Contest 2016 As a growing adolescent in a Lubavitch family, I developed a curiosity to explore other paths and philosophies within Judaism. One of the most fascinating pieces of work that I came across was the late Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik’s – (“the Rav”) monumental

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A Chassidic Take on “The Four Letter Word” ­

By Avremel Vogel, Brooklyn, NY

Essays 2016

MyLife Essay Contest 2015   Love. Probably the single­ most abused word in the modern world. In secular circles, it gets flung around like the words “hello” and “goodbye”. In more Orthodox circles, it just doesn’t get used enough. Like it or not, “love” is the craze of the modern world. Everyone is looking for

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Encountering You­

By Rikkie Winner, Brooklyn, NY

Essays 2016

MyLife Essay Contest 2015   What you’re truly made of and why this makes you the most important creation on Earth. The Empty Campaign “I love lifting weights because… I feel strong. I feel empowered.” These were the words of a woman in the cast of the Lean Cuisine #WeighThis Campaign. If you’re going to

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Reciprocity: The Name of the Game

By Eli Soble, Brooklyn, NY

Essays 2016

MyLife Essay Contest 2016   The method to think good so that it will truly be good The Yiddish phrase Tracht goot vet zai’en goot translates to Think good, it will be good. An approach to life that is part of the Chabad ethos. It’s also the precise wording used by the third Chabad Rebbe,

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Reciprocity: The Name of the Game

by Eli Soble

Essays 2016

MyLife Essay Contest 2015   The method to think good so that it will truly be good The Yiddish phrase Tracht goot vet zai’en goot translates to Think good, it will be good. An approach to life that is part of the Chabad ethos. It’s also the precise wording used by the third Chabad Rebbe,

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Conquering “I Can’t”

By Shoshie Gutnick, North Bondi, Australia

Essays 2016

MyLife Essay Contest 2016   How many times have we heard our children say “I can’t!”? Have you ever considered it to be true? Are they really incapable of completing the task? These two words can cast a shadow over future endeavours, trapping us in a pit of fear and doubt. Understanding where such an

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Self-Control from the Essence of Your Soul

By Aryah Gurewitz, Lake Worth, FL

Essays 2016

MyLife Essay Contest 2016   One of the fundamental observations of Chassidus is that there is a conflict happening within each one of us. We all have inclinations that we know better than to act upon, but in the moment, we sometimes feel that we lack control. We “just can’t help it.” There is a

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