Shabbat Shalom!
This
past summer I devoted countless hours to a single goal. No I’m not talking
about preparing for my bar mitzvah, even though I did spend a lot of time
studying. Right Mom and Dad?
But I
also spent a lot of time watching the popular TV show “Friends,” I
watched dozens of episodes, until I realized that I should probably get back to
my Bar Mitzvah studies. What I love about Friends is that they are all so
supportive of each other. It made me realize that the type of people you hang
out with makes a big difference in the person you become.
My torah portion of
Noah teaches the same lesson. In the portion, Noah builds an ark to save his
family and every animal from a flood. The Torah describes how Noah was an
average person in evil times. But strangely he was called a righteous person.
What does that mean? That means he was a very good person compared to the rest
of his generation.
I’m lucky to live in a time where my friends and family are
all good people, and no one is leading me in the wrong direction.
Is it better to be an average person where everyone else is
evil or to be a great person where everyone else is average. This is like Noah
vs. Abraham. Where Noah was average during evil times and Abraham was great
during normal times. Personally, I would rather be an average person when
everyone else is evil because by being an average person you would be able to
stop evil people from doing evil things, and would be able to make them better
people. If you are a great person where everyone else is average you can’t help
them to do something better when they aren’t doing anything wrong.
This is also like my soccer team. Although we all go to
different schools and come from different backgrounds, when we get on the field
none of that matters. We all make each other better players and better people.
They are like my other siblings because we’ve all spent so
many weekends in hotels together for tournaments, I’ve lost count
This also, reminds me of when Lebron James steps on the
court with his team, and when his team starts playing he finds a way to make
all of his teammates better than before.
What do you think it means to be a righteous person in this
generation today. I think to be a righteous person in this generation you need
to be nice to people offline as well as online.
That means on social media, you need to check what you post
before you post it because we use social media so much in today’s society and
sometimes it can get really out of hand with what you say and do on social
media.
For my Mitzvah project I did a bunch of different bake sales
for the charity St. Judes. St. Judes is a charity/children's hospital that
researches cures for all different cancer types. This is meaningful to me
because I’ve learned about St. Judes before and because cancer research can
change/save peoples lives. In conclusion, I think that Noah was a more
righteous because he lived harder times and it’s a lot harder to changes
people’s minds when they’re already evil.
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