ESSAYS| 2015

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Prozac Nation

by Devorah Leah Bogart

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest 2015 Prozac nation.  Fast-food society.  Binge eating.  Drinking.  Stuff. We are empty.  We seek substances to help us feel full.  We fill our stomachs to cover our emotions so that we don’t have to feel our pain.  Some fall into the trap of full-blown addiction, but all struggle with the pull towards

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Unconditional Unity

by Hinda Bluma Sheinberger

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest 2015 Imagine you are sitting at work, and suddenly, your co-worker sits right next to you. The person who makes you grit your teeth and seethe inside. Not the person whom you hold a grudge against, but the one whose flaws and negative traits glaringly stand out to you. So, you mutter

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Self-Identity

by Shlomo Gutnick

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest 2015 Question: Dear Rabbi, I am 17 years old and I am struggling to understand who I am and what direction my life should take. From time to time I think about my life and it really feels like a mess. I have moments when I am “really good” – I am

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Bad Hair Day

by Yosef Kaner

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest 2015 I saw the following on Chabad.org: The holy Baal Shem Tov taught: “When you see ill in your friend, it is your own ill that you are observing.” Like a mirror that reflects nothing but what you place before it, so too what you see in your fellow reflects nothing but

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Growing through Guilt

by Anonymous

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest 2015   The more we learn Chassidus, the more it is clear what kind of tremendous impact it can have in our lives, when applied. Be it on an emotional, psychological or cognitive level, Chassidus offers more meaningful and practical solutions than we can ever hope to find in Pop Psychology. In

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Growing through Guilt

by Rivkah Shanowitz

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest 2015   The more we learn Chassidus, the more it is clear what kind of tremendous impact it can have in our lives, when applied. Be it on an emotional, psychological or cognitive level, Chassidus offers more meaningful and practical solutions than we can ever hope to find in Pop Psychology. In

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When my Self is in Control

by Yaakov Wagner

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest 2015   Introduction A challenge I face every morning before entering my classroom is to think of ways to make the Chassidic discourse I’m about to teach relatable and applicable to my students – young men from various backgrounds, many of whom are being exposed to the teachings of Chassidus for the

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Transforming Fear into Goodness

by Moises Waisberg

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest 2015   This essay is about how to deal with fear. The basic idea is that we fear things which we can´t handle. The reason we can´t handle certain things is that our human tools are too limited to deal with them. The Chasidic solution is that when something is beyond our

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The Power of our Thoughts

by Menucha Ezagui

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest 2015   The Problem Do you ever feel a violent war, dramatic movie, hilarious comedy or romantic story constantly taking place and replaying itself in your mind? And every few hours the characters pop in, to pay a visit or say “hello” invisibly, during the most important parts of your day or

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The Game of Hiskafia

by Yechezkal Gutfreund

Essays 2015

MyLife Essay Contest 2015   A. Motivation Our biggest source of distraction in the contemporary western culture is computer and internet based technologies. We learn in the maamar Basi L’Gani, that we have the power to turn this shtus of kelipa into a force for kedushah. Many Olemish/Litvish approach technology as an ill that can

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