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Chabura Spotlight – Becky Shachter

michlelet August 15, 2014

Becky Shachter is from Boca Raton, Florida. She went to Weinbaum Yeshiva High school and then spent a year in MMY. She is currently in Stern college for Women, majoring in Psychology. This is her first summer on Michlelet and it has been unbelievable with the such incredible campers and staff! The girls in Becky’s chaburah are Elisheva Pfeiffer (Teaneck, NJ), Basia Ebel (Chicago, IL), Henna Storch (Woodmere, NY) and Rachaeli Treitel (Monsey, NY).

In her chabura titled “ Ethical Dilemmas: What would you do? Becky presents moral dilemmas, often times from the tv show “what would you do?” The girls then think and discuss what they would do in that specific complicated situation. Afterwards they then discuss what middah they would have to implement in that situation to succeed. Finally, that middah is learned by going into depth with sources over the span of a few chaburahs. And then on to the next! This hands on and applicable way of learning about middot has the unbelievable potential to build confidence in how to act when presented with moral dilemmas.

Pick a quote that weve mentioned in chabura and explain how it relates to you or your summer:

Basia: “If a person falls from his level, he should know that the whole purpose of the rejection is thsat he should be drawn closer… the proper thing to do is to begin afresh as if you were just starting to serve god. Start now as if you had never begun before at all” – Rebbe Nachman

Focusing on a mitzvah is a challenge, one that Ive faces many times. When I decide to focus on a mitzvah I will inevitably start with guste , only to find myself stuggling once again. Its very disheartening. But Rebbe Nachman’s quote has given me a new perspective. Instead of loving motivation and giving up on the mitzvah, I just need to try again. “modeh Ani…” Every day when our soul is returned to us its like we are a different person, a person who has not yet had an opportunity to serve god. So as Rebbe Nachman says: we can start a new. Everyday we are given a second chance. This quote has taught me that even failure doesn’t mean I should stop striving to perfect myself.

Henna: My favorite quote from our chaburah is “It takes a lot of courage to begin, but this is not the deepest coutrage we need. The deepest courage we need is to really hold on.”
This quote really spoek to me. Sometimes when I am having trpoube with something its easy to change it in the moment but later it becomes routine and the insporation is gone and its harder to keep doing it.

Rachaeli: “The quote I chose was “Patience is not simply the ability to wait- it’s how we behave while were waiting.” I chose this quote because this summer was tested with patience numerous times. One way that affected me most was when we were waiting for the buses, or waiting to go somewhere and for whatever reason we got stalled. We could have all complained and got angry, or we could make the most of the time and spend it together interacting with friends having the Best. Summer. Ever.