Chedva Weissler is from Teaneck New Jersey. After attending Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls she spent a year and a half at Tiferet in Eretz Yisroel. She is currently in Touro Lander College for Woman. This is her second year as a madricha on Michelelet and she is so excited to be back and be part of this amazing program for another summer.
The incredible girls in her chabura are: Meira Edelstein, Channa Gelbtuch, Riky Ratner and Rena Seidenmann.
Chedva’s chabura is called finding Hashem Through Your iPhone. It goes through different apps or setting such as the lock button, search key, messages to understand Hashem and make Him more attainable in our day to day life. For example google maps was used to learn about bitachon and relying on Hashem, while the search button taught the beauty of sheva yipol tzadik v’kam. Through it, the girls realize how every part of their lives can be used to find Hashem even in the most uncommon places.
If you could revisit any trip on michlelet that you went on which would it be?
Meira Edelstein: I liked har hertzel it was meaningful and we had a really good tour guide and it was so inspiring to see all the people who died fighting for our country
Channa Gelbtuch: I would want to visit Kever Rachel again because I had one of the most powerful davenings of my life there, except we didn’t have so much time, so I would want to do it again to have a longer davening with all of the kavana that I had there.
Riky Ratner: Chevron, it was extremely inspiring when the people of chevron spoke about their experiences living there and it amazed me how they continue to have such strong bitachon and emunah. Also getting to daven by the avos and emahos kevar was really an amazing opportunity!
Rena Seidenmann: I enjoyed maarat hamachpala and being able to daven at the kevarim of our Avos and get our tfilot answered.There was a time in history when the Jews weren’t able to daven there and it was so special to me to have the ability to go and learn the history and daven.