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Fan the FlameWhat do our girls need the most?
Shaindy Kleinman has been teaching and mentoring girls for over four decades. She currently teaches life skills and chinuch in several Boro Park high schools.
They need to know who they are! Not the typical self-esteem psychobabble that frequently generates egocentricity, but who they really are: a chelek Eloka mima’al. Hashem implanted a piece of Himself in each of us and gave us a mission that’s exquisite and individual.
The Baal Shem Tov taught that our mission is to redeem the spiritual sparks that fill the physical world by living a life of mitzvos. Only I can redeem my sparks; only you can redeem yours. Our girls need to hear this from every teacher, in every grade, again and again and again.
These authentic Torah values give all our girls, even those who feel unworthy socially or academically, what we most badly want to give them: the sense of security and purpose they need to live happy, meaningful lives at every age, no matter what they go through.
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