Throughout the course of our lives we encounter many challenges which significantly shape us as individuals. Perhaps the most significant event in my life to date was my family’s move from a small town in upstate New York to Philadelphia as I was entering my sophomore year of High School. The transition was very difficult as I was accustomed to life in Endwell, New York, population 13,000, a place where I knew everybody and everyone knew me. I needed to rebuild my entire social life from scratch. It was not easy and in the interim I mainly focused on my personal studies and my religious life to keep myself busy and positive.
Although my religion has always been of great importance to me and has always provided me with strength, it never was more important then during my move to
Second, I have concentrated on my personal studies during the last two years. In addition to my work at school, I read broadly, enjoy reference and historical works and surf the web daily in search of new information and sites. One interest, growing out of my travels in Europe, is Hasidic Judaism. To my surprise, I have located over 50 Hasidic webpages in the United States, Israel and England. Today, I am corresponding regularly with a number of Hasidim even though I have not yet met them personally.
Last spring, I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by a scholar from the University of Haifa in Israel who had trained at Oxford University in England. Prof. Teller is widely respected as a great scholar of Hasidism. To my delight, not only was I able to follow his lecture but I
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