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Yocheved Sidof is a writer, educator, speaker and social entrepreneur. After a decade as filmmaker and phorographer, in 2010, she founded a grassroots, progressive Chassidic school, Lamplighers Yeshivah, that gained international acclaim. She's a mom of five, just-getting-started meditator, avid dreamer, and willful doer. Stop by and say hi if you're in Crown Heights.
If you had a little tape recorder in my head and pressed record, you’d capture all sorts of stuff. But one thing would emerge - the words I use to talk to myself. And they aren't pretty.
G-d does not need us to protect His reputation -- nor to use Him to protect ours.
There was something different about us, those whose parents came to halachic Judaism later in life -- and I wondered if it was just me who noticed it.
From the moment our souls begin this journey, we’re moving toward something.
Would I really rather be mistaken for a Hipster than a Hasid?
Somehow, we learn that modesty is about externals. About hemlines. About shame. About sex. Yet is it?
I’m writing this letter to you. What happens when you, only you, define your self-worth?
