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sometimes in life like you have to take
you to a leap of faith and doing it
feels right to do it feels right I
really wanted to to be intellectually
honest with myself and give myself a
year of studying in Israel learning
about Judaism and studying where I came
from and figuring out where I want to be
you how I want to report in my life I
think learning it's that's the core of
our being I mean you have to grow we
have to continue to learn I was planning
on staying in DC any working in the
foreign policy need world then I sort of
decided I wanted to come to Israel and
that was an argument with my parents
they wanted me to get a job and I was
like a woman there's no time like the
President to pause and sort of take time
to figure myself out and figure out
what's important to me and what I want
in life and who I am
i'm walking in the shook in tel aviv
this old man at the counter is singing
this pink floyd song so I go over to him
and I start singing to it all you touch
and all you see is all your life will
ever be and we're singing together and
just like this is my country
still love the alternative esoteric
things of life and I really had no idea
that dude hasn't had any of that kind of
a side to it and I asked myself a bump
so open-minded that everything else was
very left-wing on very open i like
everything is like if I'm so mind about
everything maybe I should be at least a
little bit over minded about my own my
own background main routes by religion
been here for nine months so far and
it's been one of the best experiences of
my entire life I've grown so much as a
person I've learned so much a Hebrew has
improved a lot not only because I'm in
Israel but also because I'm reading in
Hebrew and translating from the original
text was so impressed by the level of
students that were taking a break from
whatever it is that they were doing to
go to you she would to learn about their
heritage to really set their value
straight and really understand what they
want to get out of life what kind of
family they want to build and it stopped
me for a moment I said wait a second
there's something different about this
place there's a certain focus and a
certain appreciation for life that you
don't necessarily get in a typical
college setting so I when I first came
to Israel I felt like I was missing like
half the puzzle like I had like the
border but the entire center was missing
and the more I started slowly slowly
learning like things start to become
clear I saw a bigger picture when I
started to learn in yeshiva like goes
like this stuff is incredible like it's
it's very very spiritual it really
applies to me I connected with it in so
many levels and it taught me so much
about Who I am and about about God and
about everything about everything I
needed to come back and learn more about
being Jewish because it was just an
incredible experience
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I felt Jewish I knew I was Jewish I just
I know what that meant I knew that's
what I wasn't what our family was I knew
the ideas but it wasn't wasn't brought
down and integrating the two who I was I
wasn't living these ideas and come to
Israel and you're in this dislike
environment of people who are just all
about growing and learning and living
the best life you sting good people
speak the people you become a better
person they bring you up I feel like I
have a fantastic network of people and I
enjoy life I enjoy day to day it's very
colorful it's very exciting it's very
live I could never imagine just going
back to England him just being one of
the masses part of the amazing thing
about being there is just being around
people who are passionate about being
good and being better and honoring their
authentic selves in the Shiva that i was
at you had people coming in from
Argentina Chile Africa Europe British
Brent Britain and all these different
places and you know you have this mix of
everybody and everybody's unique in
their own way and but everyone is on the
track of becoming a better person they
all want that and you're just around
really good people it's very powerful
and very important to understand what it
means to learn in Israel and access
things we weren't able to access for
literally thousands of years it really
solidified what I knew about myself and
it's almost like to be discovering
everything you already knew some of my
best friend's saying that I seem happier
than I've ever been I see more myself
than I've ever been I just become a
better person and those were all in line
with the goals that I had originally
I wouldn't say it's for everybody just
because it's a really unique experience
it's really an intense experience for me
was a very positive experience if you
come here and learn it's your experience
and it's only your experience and you
have to remember that to you can come
here and you can learn and you can still
be used
my mom and my friends are always like
what are you running from when are you
gonna stop running I'm not running from
the real world I call it I'm running to
my real world there's always such a gift
to be able to spend one year that you're
just learning about yourself it's an
opportunity of a lifetime but you have
to approach it the right way you really
have to see it as an opportunity and
that they'll poach it in a way that
enables you to really get the most out
of it and then leave you Shira better
equipped for the world there's something
in the air there's something here it's
more than just a history it's more than
just a culture like when I was in the
shop and I was singing Pink Floyd all
you touch and all you see is all your
life will ever be I just don't believe
that anymore your life is so much more
than all in touch with you soon
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