Chani Hyman is from Teaneck, NJ. She went to Bruriah for high school, then spent a year in MMY, and is now a junior in Stern College.
The girls in Chani’s chaburah are Shira Felsenthal (Beit Shemesh, Israel), Ayelet Berkowitz (Silver Spring, MD), Allison Weinick (Plainview, NY), and Chava Segal (New York, NY).
Chani’s chaburah focuses on the importance of emulating Gedolim and Tzadikkim. By reading stories and discussing the lives of Gedolei Hador, we realize how much there is to learn from them. Each chaburah continues with sources that support that message or middah. The goal is to internalize these ideas and integrate it into our daily lives.
Q: If you could travel to any place, where would it be and why?
Shira: “Arkansas because based on my vast knowledge of the U.S. nobody ever goes there, and I think it feels left out. We learned in chaburah that it’s important to pay attention to little things, and find your role in life. Therefore, I would go to the little state Arkansas, because even though it’s small it could make a big difference in my life and theirs.”
Ayelet: “I would visit Africa to play with the children and make them happy, because we learnt in chaburah the importance of an act of chessed and how one small deed can change someone’s day.”
Allison: “I would stay here in Israel because it is our homeland which is filled with kedusha.”
Chava: “If I can go anywhere in the world I would want to go to Poland. My interest stems from the stories that my grandmother has told me and my imagination of what life was like in the old country.”