Sharon Langer

6.22.05

TORAH NAME: HaTamim Sharon Avrohom ben Uri Chazak!

DATE OF BIRTH: October 9, 1987 – 16 Tishrei, 5748

LINEAGE: Father’s side is from Poland and Mother’s side is from Spain

GREW UP IN: Tel Aviv, Natanya (Israel) and Zurich, Switzerland

WENT TO SCHOOL AT: Shai Agnon in Netanya, Israel and later Michael Kroop High School in Miami, FL

INTERESTS/HOBBIES ARE: Jewish history, basketball, soccer

MOST IMPORTANT JEWISH EXPERIENCE: The times I spent with my maternal grandparents who were religious.

HAVE BEEN Observant SINCE: About the autumn of 2004

HAVE BEEN IN YTM SINCE: May of 2005

THINGS I LOVE MOST ABOUT YTM: The insights of Chassidus and the logic of the Talmud.

I GAUGE MY TORAH STUDY AT WHAT LEVEL: Although I know a lot of Hebrew I am still new to many of the concepts we are learning

WHICH SUBJECT DO I LIKE LEARNING THE MOST: The Talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the weekly parsha.

WHAT DO I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME: Reading and sports

WHAT SURPRISED ME THE MOST ABOUT YTM: That I had feelings and emotions that I was not in touch with, but that I could be.

WHAT DO I EXPECT TO GET OUT OF YTM: Although I didn’t have any expectations when I first came to Yeshiva, now I would like to really develop and elevate my heart and mind

HOW AM I BETTER THAN BEFORE: Before I could only relate to the physical and material, now I am sensitive to the spiritual as well.

A WORD TO Prospective students: All I can tell you is Yeshiva is an amazing place to be right now. I hope I’ll see you here.

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