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How Will We Live Impressions and judgement of people we don’t even know are fairly common. We might hear a rumor about someone, or just hear of someone’s actions. Judgement is very common, and it prevents many relationships. Whether it’s someone race, religion, hobbies or interest we form our opinions about that person, but we do not truly know that person. Throughout first year seminar judgement was found in a lot of the texts we read. Judgement was found early in the course when we discussed Ordinary Grace. One example of judgement found in this book was between races, Native Americans and Whites. In this example Frank had a negative impression of Warren Redstone. Later in the semester we discussed the novel The Chosen. Quick judgement based off religious beliefs had a large impact on how the story panned out. The different religious traditions tore apart the Orthodox Jews and the Hasidic Jews. In this novel we witness two boys hating each other, becoming best friends, and then torn back apart. Judgment and the false understanding of each other and each other’s family is what caused this. Lastly the book, Why College Matters to God, demonstrates a solution to judgement, and this is through changing our worldview. Changing our understanding of the world and our perspective on why things happen can help us prevent judgment. In our life we need to eliminate our judgment, so we are able to connect with everyone. In the story Ordinary Grace Warren Redstone was made out to be…

The Chosen: Hasidism, A Way of Life “Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength” (Hasidic Proverb). People need to accept and support other people 's’ choices in life. Each person has several choices in their lives, some people need a great deal of help others do not. Some people receive help from their family, others have some pressure. As portrayed in numerous Hasidic families, the rebbe and his son have conflict…

Crown Heights, located in Brooklyn, is known to be a diverse neighborhood. It is notoriously known to an unsafe and run-down neighborhood, but the recent gentrification of the neighborhood is proving its reputation wrong. There have been numerous reports of tension and anti-Semitism between the Black people and Jews in Crown Heights. One of the main incidents that occurred between them is the August 1991 riot, which was said by Henry Goldschmidt, a scholarly author and researcher, to be the most…

Nonetheless, we went for a couple hours to say we went and were all good with the Big Guy. Being once a year Jews, and synagogues knowing they get their biggest draw from Jews like us, they charge for tickets for seating; my old synagogue was up to $200/person when my parents said they’ve had enough. Upon falling out the old conservative synagogue, they found a Chabad synagogue in our area, and Chabad is free, as well as for everyone, not just Chabad Chasidim, so to Chabad we went. Through…

otherwise known as Shabbat, praying three times a day- morning services, called Shacharit, afternoon services, Mincha, and night services, Maariv, as well as keeping kosher; specifically, not mixing milk and meat and waiting one hour after eating dairy before eating meat, and six hours after eating meat before eating dairy. Additionally, kosher laws relating to how the meat is slaughtered, as well as how dairy products are farmed and produced. Furthermore, I lacked an awareness of the rich…

college students practice it. I choose to immerse myself within the Jewish religion for this assignment. WHERE TO BEGIN After I decided upon this student group, I began to do research. While many terms that began to appear were unfamiliar, I did begin to notice weekly events and group meetings across campus. I saw that KU offers Jewish students a Chabad, a Hillel, and a Jewish studies club that host events regularly. I began to reach out and contact them to see what they would be comfortable…

Daled Bavos Daled Bavos, originally known in Yiddish as “Der Nigun fun Fir Fallen”, and “The Alter Rebbe's Nigun.” or “The Rav's Nigun,,” is the “crowning glory of Chabad nigunim, composed by the Alter Rebbe in Mezeritch at the Maggid,, improving and perfecting the nigun that we sing today. This nigun is the most significant and profound of all Chabad nigunim. The Rebbe emphasized that the nigun should be sung very slowly and with fervent earnestness. The nigun has four stanzas,…

the Civil Rights Movement; taught the blind, deaf and handicap; traveled around the world; enlightened of the best found within the arts and most importantly, cared for me more than anyone else lost her mind within months of her dementia. I was furious at G-d for doing that to her. After their passing, I felt always empty when going to synagogue in Washington DC to cite mourner 's kaddish. When my Mother spoke of how she felt my Grandparents and how they were with G-d, I could never believe it.…

A group of Jewish people started to migrate to Australia at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, most of them were highly Orthodox. All synagogues were supposedly Orthodox until the 1930’s, most of them took mention of the leadership of the Chief Rabbi of the UK, and to this day there are still a large range of audiences of the Orthodox. Some include Mizrachi and Chabad. Many Jews have been mayors of numerous capital cities or towns, some even sat in the State and…

gained a job working for the Americans, “They had me like American soldier, but I wasn’t” (Flekier 21). After finding out his entire family had been murdered, Abe heard news of older sibling Jacob applying for entry to Palestine. He waited for his brother at Treblinka for several months after his entry was denied. They then gained a visa to the US and moved to New York City. In New York he went through government schooling of American customs and style, “They had all kinds of people helping us,…