Tzipora Hirsch is from Queens, NY. After graduating from Manhattan High School, she spent a year and a half at Michlalah. Tzipora is currently studying at Queens College, majoring in mechanical engineering. Tzipora remembers her incredible summer on Michlelet as a camper, and is so excited to come back as a Madricha.
The amazing girls in Tzipora’s chaburah are Gavriella Lebowitz, Yaeli Adar, Sandy Nussbaum, and Mali Wolfson.
In Tzipora’s chaburah, the girls delve into different middos and characteristics that can be learned from the various women in tanach. For example, shtika which can be learned from Rochel; gratitude from Leah; individuality from Esther; tefillah from Chana; leadership from Devorah; emunah from rut; and so much more! Tzipora uses different Torah sources, along with secular research and quotes, to explain and describe each characteristic.
Tzipora hopes to instill in the girls a love for Torah and desire for self growth. She hopes that the girls in her Chaburah will be able to take what they learn from the women in tanach, and infiltrate those middos and characteristics into their every day lives.
Which event/time period in Jewish history would you have liked to witness, and why?
Mali: The times of Shlomo because it was the golden age of the Jewish ppl and Shlomo was also like the coolest person who ever lived.
Sandy: I would have liked to have witnessed the Liberation of the Holocaust. The thought of seeing the light enter the lives of Jews who went through the worst and made it to the finish line is empowering. I imagine Jews putting on Tefillin for the first time in years, for being so thankful to mutter just a few words of prayer; that gives me extreme Hakarat Hatov to HaShem for giving me the opportunity to practice my religion freely.
Gavriella: the times of Shlomo HaMelech when everything was peaceful and happy, because we don’t have that these days. I would want to know what real peace is. Also I would like to witness the sin of Adam Harishon because it would be interesting to see how he sinned and why the punishment was so strong.
Yaeli: I would like to go back in time to when Rochel gave over the simanim to Leah her sister. I find it difficult to believe that one would have the ability to give up one’s life and religion for the sake of not embarrassing her sister. She gave up her future husband even though she knew she would inevitably marry his brother, the rasha. Rochel is a person that I look up to because of her sensitivity to others.