Rebbe Essays

Albert Einstein once said, “I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.” This quote is truly applicable to the short film “La Luna”. Throughout “La Luna,” a young boy named Bambino experiences many difficulties and arguments with his father, Papȧ, and his grandfather, Nonno. Bambino is coaxed into following alongside his father and grandfather’s footsteps-- sweeping away the stars. However, towards

My name is Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok. The main character, Asher Lev grows up in the Hasidic Jewish community. Asher is an artist living in Brooklyn, whose world is surrounded by the rules of his religion and the Rebbe. Art is not a part of Judais, and is looked down upon more often than not. This problem hinders Asher’s gift of drawing, reputation, and his relationship with his parents. The people in Asher’s life, opinions on art and religion haves contradictions, which only leaves Asher

pages, with an additional 80 pages of footnotes. Hidden within is a personal and detailed account of the practical elements that have paved the success of Chabad. With the 1994 passing of the Rebbe, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, there was talk of the Chabad network collapsing but the legacy of the Rebbe went far

Leadership Profile There were two great leaders in the previous generation and both had many followers. Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, The Grand Rabbi of Satmar, and The Lubavitch Rabbi, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. These two Rabbi’s were similar in many ways. They were both Torah giants. If it can be said of a person at all then both of them would be under the category of people who knew the entire Torah. Both Rabbi‘s had their unique and extremely different ways of serving God and both built huge

inaccurate. Wiesel’s conversation with the Rebbe completely contradicts what a memoir is. The fact that Wiesel even admits that he has completely made some of his stories up, yet still claims them to be true stories, is completely wrong. The Rebbe sees through Wiesel, claiming that he writes lies. Wiesel justifies himself and says: “Some events do take place but are not true; others are – although they never occurred”. What Wiesel is saying to the Rebbe is that some things that are made up could

Every person in their Avodas Hashem have some good days when things go smoothly and some more difficult days when things are a little tougher.  Sometimes it happens that you will have a really good Davening. You woke up early, learnt some Chassidus with your father and then you davened every word out loud, thinking about the Peirush Hamilos. How do you feel when that happens? Do you feel happy about how you managed to daven? The real question is, what happens after you have this really good Davening

million followers worldwide. This religion is monotheistic, worshipping only God, and its holy scripture is the Torah, a section from the bible. In every Jewish community, there is a leadership, consisting of Rabbis, Chazzans, Gabbais, Koheins, Levis, Rebbes, and Tsaddiks.

The persona recalls hearing, “I remember standing in a room, thirty years / ago, the Rebbe raising his voice to call G-d / to task” (1). The Rebbe’s approach to dealing with his problems is praying to G-d and calling ‘G-d to task.’ The Rebbe does not succumb to or accept his sufferings, but he challenges the omnipotent. He chooses to face his suffering. Similarly, later in the first stanza, when a different Rabbi

experience with. This first person novel is narrated by Reuven Malther who lives in Brooklyn and forms an unlikely friendship with a boy named Danny Saunders. Reuven is a secular Jew with a very intellectual father, while Danny is the heir to a Hasidic rebbe position. The Chosen walks readers through the life of these two boys during their adolescence and also through a crisis of faith when the stories of what happened during the war begin to be told in America. During a very pivotal part of the book when

"In the larger ghettos, up to 1,000 people a day are picked up and brought by train to concentration camps or death camps" the webpage "11 facts about the holocaust" states. The holocaust took place in Europe because Hitler wanted to cleanse the world of Jews. Hitler did not only get rid of the Jews but he also got rid of many others such as the disabled, LGBT community, Gypsies, and the Polish. Through a variety of texts, people can learn about the holocaust like in the book Night which is an autobiography

Growing up Pearl always heard about her great-great-grandfather's mythical Divan, a couch cherished because of the generations of rebbes that had slept on it. Pearl soon became determined to bring this Divan back from Hungary to please her father, who was Hasidic, and did not approve of her life choices. Asher Lev from a very young age knew he had a gift for drawing. He would draw

this outburst of violent actions. In her article, “Performing Personal Narrative: Anna Deveare Smith's ‘Fires in the Mirror,’” Myers claims that: the tragic events of August 20, 1991, which began when a car from the motorcade of the Hasidic Grand Rebbe jumped the sidewalk and pinned two black children against a window grate, severely injuring seven-year-old, Angela Cato, and killing her cousin Gavin, also seven” (52). This information is helpful for my research because in “Fires in the Mirror,” Deveare-Smith

Asher could very well have lived a similar life to the one the book already presented. Being discovered as an artist is never anything short of luck. The story could have still had Asher’s father working for the Rebbe and not be so well off. This conclusion most likely stems from a horrid understanding of the Jewish community and the lives of its leaders. Asher may not wake up to fresh orange juice everyday nor would he be treated to so many summer outings as a

Ernie Vasquez Prof. Bernhard PSYC3364 - Poverty & Neurodevelopment May 10, 2024 The Glass Castle: A Memoir Part I: Jeannette Walls' memoir, "The Glass Castle," provides a profound exploration of the upbringing of the Walls family, shedding light on the various themes and repercussions of poverty. Through the narrative, readers witness the challenges and adversities faced by Walls and her siblings while under the care of their parents, Rex and Rose Mary Walls. What impresses me the most in this story

Although, he has an ease to learn more then what is accepted by his father. He has an adept interest in secular studies, and dreams of becoming a psychologist, not the future Rebbe. This makes makes the acceptance of what's chosen for him even harder because “He had a great mind, but it never left him in peace. He wandered from city to city, never finding roots anywhere, never

life of silence as the Hasidic teaching said he should. “I’m the inheritor of the dynasty… because one day the son will be the father.” Danny was willing to bear the life of silence for the sake of his father and his community, and to become the next Rebbe as he culture demands. The forced ambivalence Danny feels towards silence had shaped the early formative years of his life before his meeting with Reuven. An undercurrent of the baseball game was Danny’s build up of regret being released through his

The way that characters change in a text makes it worth reading. It is the way that characters change in a text that makes it worth reading, particularly when the change is driven by one of the text’s major themes. The Chosen, a novel by Chaim Potok, illustrates this by showing the change in Danny’s life through how he interacts with the theme of silence. Potok shows through the changes in Danny that the way we relate to an aspect of our lives affects our future. Through Danny’s life, this essay

The novel The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, shows the journey of two friends in a Brooklyn Hasidic community during and after the events of World War II. Danny is the son of Reb Saunders, the rebbe of a Hasidic congregation while Reuven is the son of Mr. Malter, an Orthodox Jew who has both scientific and religious views of the world. Reuven is raised by his father through honesty and respect, but Danny is brought up through silence and lack of connection. As Danny grows up, Reb Saunders refuses to talk

Eva Galler ​In the Holocaust, 6 millions Jews died. Although so many Jews died, but there were also some survivors. 350 thousand Jews escaped from the terrible and ghastly Holocaust. One of the survivors, Eva Galler, was very smart and lucky. She survived the Holocaust, although her family members all died. Eva Galler’s Early Life Eva Galler was born in a little city in Poland named Oleszyce. Her community consisted of 7000 families, half were Jews. She was the oldest child in her family, she

According to a common adage, our true values can be discerned solely through the things we are willing to sacrifice. This adage is what is at the core of My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok. Throughout the novel, characters are constantly sacrificing there own happiness forr what they consider to be the greater good. Someone who does this more than anyone is Asher Lev. In his journey to become a writer, he ends up forfeiting the thing that once was at the center of his identity; this being his label