Ora, hailing from Monsey, NY, recently finished her junior year at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women where she is majoring in Jewish education and minoring in political science. During the year Ora spends her time with the wonderful folks at New England NCSY and serves as chapter advisor for Newton, MA. After loving Michlelet as a High Schooler she was very excited to have the opportunity to come back as a madricha last summer and this summer she is thrilled to be back once again as shana bet madricha (and of course to be co-running songsational, the best activity ever- CDs coming to a Judaica store near you).
The NCSYers in Ora’s chabura are Liat Clark (Teaneck, NJ), Maytal Cuperfein (Toronto, ON), Orly Ohayon (Jacksonville, FL) and Shira Wein (Queens, NY).
Ora’s chabura is on possessive pronouns in Tanach but she has never actually told anyone in the chabura this and all those outside the chabura who know have been sworn to secrecy. Each chabura or two looks at a different example of a possessive pronoun in Tanach that seems to be unnecessary, e.g: lech lecha or hachodesh hazeh lachem, and we try to understand together why these specific cases warrant special invitations from Hashem to take a mitzvah or instruction so personally.
The goal of the chabura is the source of its title: “V’sein Chelkeinu B’sorasecha”, the request we have to find our own personal portion in Torah. We speak a lot about the importance of finding pieces of Torah that resonate personally with us and to that end discuss the approaches of many different commentaries both early and more modern. Along the way we go off on tangents. A lot. But that keeps things exciting, coming with a Tanach ready to flip is always encouraged.
Quotes from the Crew:
Maytal: “My favorite thing about Michlelet is the madrichot learning!”
Shira: “I like everything about Michlelet!”
Liat: “I love the madrichot, especially morah who teaches me Torah!”
Orly: “I love how its so balanced: I love learning, I love doing chessed and I love exploring. It’s a great opportunity to grow and what’s better than learning and growing with NCSY with 97 girls and 26 madrichot in Israel?!”