Eliana Hammer is from Woodmere, NY, and is currently a junior at Stern College where she is studying biology. She went to SKA high school for girls, then spent a year in Michlelet Mevaseret Yerushalayim. Eliana is excited to be able to teach torah and inspire those around her during her first summer on Michlelet!!
The girls in Eliana’s Chabura are Ariella Seidemann (Lawrence, NY), Malkie Bugayer (Woodmere, NY), Shevy Alhadeff (Seattle, Washington), and Aviva Stieglitz (Philadelphia).
Eliana’s chaburah is based on the Rambam’s principle of “shvil hazahav”-the golden path. We discover the proper balance of each middah by comparing two people in tanach. Whether we define the middah of gevurah by comparing Shimshon and Yitzchak, or figure out if there’s such a thing as spiritual DNA by comparing Rivka and Lavan, the goal of the Chaburah is to expand the girls knowledge of Tanach and develop their middos and maximize their potential.
Who is your favorite person in Tanach and why?
Shevy – Esther because she was so brave, and the story of how she saves Am Yisroel is so cool!
Ariella – Yehuda because has a lot of courage when it comes to doing the right thing!
Malkie – Rivka because she cared so much about making sure Yaakov got the bracha in order to keep the mesorah alive
Aviva – David because he teaches us what it means to be a real melech