MyLife Essay Contest Doing what’s right vs. doing what’s fun. This sentence just about sums up the issues and difficulties a person faces in his internal struggle to serve Hashem. There’s that which is true and proper (i.e. keep Torah and Mitzvos,) but isn’t enjoyable, versus that which is enjoyable and exciting, yet wrong. In
MyLife Essay Contest Lots of children are afraid of growing up. Maybe they’ve been influenced too much by J.M. Barrie, or maybe they have particularly unimaginative parents, but their fear isn’t unfounded. Somewhere between the rapid development of childhood, the chaos of adolescence, and the wonder of becoming independent, humans find safe nesting spots in
MyLife Essay Contest Many wonder what the “trick” is to happiness. It seems it’s an inherent right of every human being, in the words of America’s founding fathers, an “inalienable right.” Nowadays, it seems, we’re most preoccupied with this pursuit. Perhaps it’s all the free time modern technology affords us. Perhaps it’s the amount of material
MyLife Essay Contest הקדמה: חיי האדם מלאים בניסיונות ומלחמות במלחמת היצר, אלא שהתורה מביאה לנו הפתרון כפי שחכמינו אמרו: (קידושין ל,ב) “בראתי יצר הרע בראתי לו תורה תבלין,” השם ברא בנו את את התורה שהיא התבלין והתרופה לכל למיניהם, ויחד עם זאת נתן לנו הנטיות הרעות נטיות אלו. אלא שבתורה עצמה ישנם הרבה חלקים ודרכים
MyLife Essay Contest Following is an outline of how traditional chassidic practices associated with becoming closer to G-d, can be translated into effective tools for self-improvement in any context. How Can Life be Properly Lived? Are we happy? Are we living life to the fullest? What are we missing? For many of us, these are
MyLife Essay Contest This essay will attempt to explain a concept that is probably not mentioned anywhere in writing. There are some things that are not written but one must find them by reading between the lines, and in this essay we will see how one can find an explanation not in an actual Chassidic
MyLife Essay Contest G-d said to the Children of Israel, “You shall build me a Mikdash, a sanctuary, and I will dwell in them”. The obvious question is, the verse should have read … build me a sanctuary and I will dwell in it. The Rebbe explained in his inaugural discourse Basi Legani: build me a
MyLife Essay Contest One of the most fundamental pillars on which all Chassidic teachings are based, is the need to “translate” every story, mitzvah (commandment) and concept in the Torah into an understandable and relevant message that is both practical and personally meaningful. In this article we will take a highly symbolic kabbalistic and chassidic
MyLife Essay Contest The following essay compares the relationship of love and fear of G-d, as explained in a Chassidic discourse, to the role love and fear play in education. We then glean a practical application in the choice between discipline with fear or love. Love or fear With regard to education, the question is
MyLife Essay Contest You can either live by design or by default. There is a choice. In psychological terminology often used in the context of personal mastery, one can live from an ‘internal locus of control’ or an ‘external locus of control’. The former means that you are empowered by the realisation that you do
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