MyLife Essay Contest 2016 Introduction The experience of emptiness is like no other. Unlike all other emotional constructs where we feel something, feeling emptiness is essentially the awareness of not experiencing anything. It could be said that this paradoxical human experience sits at the core of all existential philosophies, religious doctrines, and spiritual searches, after
MyLife Essay Contest 2016 Introduction As a baal teshuva, I am often confronted with the paradigm shift from living a secular life to embracing a spiritual path. No where is the dissonance greater than in changing my value system from self-reliance to depending on G-d. Living an independent life based on reason is diametrically opposed
MyLife Essay Contest 2016 Immediately after my son, Shmuel Abba, was born, he was rushed to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). It was only after over an hour that the nurse asked me if I wanted to go and see him. Following the emergency caesarean, my wife Ettie was still under general anesthetic and
MyLife Essay Contest 2016 “There ain’t no road to happiness, happiness IS the road.” As a young girl I always imagined myself, all grown up as a happy chassidic wife, and mother, who “has it all together.” As my dreams actualized, I began to get caught up in the ordinary obstacles of my life.
MyLife Essay Contest 2016 Ever had the feeling, that God and you are on two different teams? Familiar with the conflict of doing what I want versus doing what he wants? Ever thought “Who am I?” and “Who is he?” In this essay we will attempt to explain the supposed conflict of the existence
MyLife Essay Contest 2016 Something many people can relate to is a feeling of endlessness. A feeling of despair, where our hearts and our minds want to just give up hope on this rat race we call life. We feel challenged beyond our reach. The feeling of climbing the mountain and never reaching
MyLife Essay Contest 2016 Imagine the world constructed in the computer game Rollercoaster Tycoon, or many others. Have we endowed the small people walking around the ingeniously constructed amusement park, occasionally depositing a green splat after a particularly sickening ride, with life? Do they go home at night and ponder life? Are they aware of
MyLife Essay Contest 2016 A few weeks ago, I hopped on a crowded Egged bus heading to Bnei Brak. I noticed that Kvish Achad, the main highway leaving Jerusalem, was more clogged than usual, but not until the bus was abuzz with conversation did I realize that something was wrong. My seatmate informed me of
MyLife Essay Contest 2016 All of us have a basic desire to be “included.” This desire, given to us by our Creator, has been embedded in our psyches, but it is all too elusive and its process vaporizes before our very eyes. We see educational systems and classrooms struggling with cohesiveness among diverse populations,
MyLife Essay Contest 2016 Maintaining our sense of self-worth is a struggle in exile due to the concealed state of G-dliness which present challenges in our modern world. Chassidus gives us the tools to see our true selves and infuse ourselves with the energy of Malchus. When we contemplate the concept of Malchus, it
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