STUDENT WORKBOOK STUDENT WORKBOOK
STUDENT WORKBOOK for
SUCCESS
INTRODUCTION
1
Match each animal to its trait
DEER
BOLD
LION
RUN
EAGLE LEOPARD
2
MIGHTY LIGHT
Eliyahu Hanavi said that a Jew is able to attain ___________________ spiritual heights than the ___________________ . This is because there is a portion of ___________________ within us and just as He is ___________________ so too there is virtually no end to what we can ___________________ .
•achieve • greater • Hashem • angels • infinite
3
2
Eliyahu Hanavi understood that the secret to attaining these lofty goals could be found in the lessons learned from...
BOLD AS A LEOPARD
1
2
3
4
How can a person be bold like a leopard to serve Hashem?
What can we learn from the leopard that attacks animals many times its size?
What helped Hershel Weber keep going after the people criticized him?
Imagine you were Sara Schenirer, what would give you the strength to keep going and actually say, “From these stones I will build more schools.” when people literally threw stones at you?
3
BOLD AS A LEOPARD
5
6
7
4
When a person has an original idea that he feels very passionate about and his friends put his idea down what should he do?
What does the fact that he feels strongly about the idea, while his friends knock it, indicate about the idea?
Anytime your initial reaction is, “I could never do that. It’s too hard for me.” However, you nevertheless push on and rise to the occasion you have been...
LIGHT AS AN EAGLE
1
2
3
What did the navi Yeshaya mean when he said that those who trust in Hashem will grow wings like eagles?
How is the eagle the classic example of doing something without getting tired in the middle?
When our Mishnah said a person should be light as an eagle, how is that the next step to being bold like a leopard?
5
LIGHT AS AN EAGLE
4
Just as the eagle cannot fly far without the wind, what do we need to do in order to stay motivated in our projects?
5
List three כוחות הנפשor character traits that could be harnessed to keep us energized to keep up our projects:
6
Try this on your own. Pick a project that you would like to work on and figure out what character trait you will hook into it in order to stay motivated. What is your project?
What are you going to use to be light like the eagle and stay motivated?
6
SWIFT AS A GAZELLE
1
2
What did the Mishnah mean when it said a person should be “swift as a gazelle”?
What does a person have to realize when they are in the middle of a project and begin to have doubts?
3
How does the story of Chushim ben Dan show us that when Hashem wants something to happen it will happen, even if the odds are stacked against it?
4
Describe a time when you were in the middle of a project and used the middah of being swift as a gazelle to complete it.
7
MIGHTY AS A LION
1
8
What did the Mishnah mean when it said a person should be “mighty as a lion”?
2
We learn from the lion that just like it will not sleep until it gets its meat, so too we should be not let go of a project until...
3
Why is it human nature to stop a project when we get close to finishing it?
CONCLUSION
1
If we were to see our potential in this world, what would be our reaction?
2
How could we use this realization to grow?
3
Explain how to use the four traits of our Mishnah to succeed when beginning a new project. BOLD AS A LEOPARD
LIGHT AS AN EAGLE
SWIFT AS A GAZELLE
MIGHTY AS A LION
9
Notes
SUCCESS
INTRODUCTION
1
Match each animal to its trait
DEER
BOLD
LION
RUN
EAGLE LEOPARD
2
MIGHTY LIGHT
Eliyahu Hanavi said that a Jew is able to attain ___________________ spiritual heights than the ___________________ . This is because there is a portion of ___________________ within us and just as He is ___________________ so too there is virtually no end to what we can ___________________ .
•achieve • greater • Hashem • angels • infinite
3
2
Eliyahu Hanavi understood that the secret to attaining these lofty goals could be found in the lessons learned from...
BOLD AS A LEOPARD
1
2
3
4
How can a person be bold like a leopard to serve Hashem?
What can we learn from the leopard that attacks animals many times its size?
What helped Hershel Weber keep going after the people criticized him?
Imagine you were Sara Schenirer, what would give you the strength to keep going and actually say, “From these stones I will build more schools.” when people literally threw stones at you?
3
BOLD AS A LEOPARD
5
6
7
4
When a person has an original idea that he feels very passionate about and his friends put his idea down what should he do?
What does the fact that he feels strongly about the idea, while his friends knock it, indicate about the idea?
Anytime your initial reaction is, “I could never do that. It’s too hard for me.” However, you nevertheless push on and rise to the occasion you have been...
LIGHT AS AN EAGLE
1
2
3
What did the navi Yeshaya mean when he said that those who trust in Hashem will grow wings like eagles?
How is the eagle the classic example of doing something without getting tired in the middle?
When our Mishnah said a person should be light as an eagle, how is that the next step to being bold like a leopard?
5
LIGHT AS AN EAGLE
4
Just as the eagle cannot fly far without the wind, what do we need to do in order to stay motivated in our projects?
5
List three כוחות הנפשor character traits that could be harnessed to keep us energized to keep up our projects:
6
Try this on your own. Pick a project that you would like to work on and figure out what character trait you will hook into it in order to stay motivated. What is your project?
What are you going to use to be light like the eagle and stay motivated?
6
SWIFT AS A GAZELLE
1
2
What did the Mishnah mean when it said a person should be “swift as a gazelle”?
What does a person have to realize when they are in the middle of a project and begin to have doubts?
3
How does the story of Chushim ben Dan show us that when Hashem wants something to happen it will happen, even if the odds are stacked against it?
4
Describe a time when you were in the middle of a project and used the middah of being swift as a gazelle to complete it.
7
MIGHTY AS A LION
1
8
What did the Mishnah mean when it said a person should be “mighty as a lion”?
2
We learn from the lion that just like it will not sleep until it gets its meat, so too we should be not let go of a project until...
3
Why is it human nature to stop a project when we get close to finishing it?
CONCLUSION
1
If we were to see our potential in this world, what would be our reaction?
2
How could we use this realization to grow?
3
Explain how to use the four traits of our Mishnah to succeed when beginning a new project. BOLD AS A LEOPARD
LIGHT AS AN EAGLE
SWIFT AS A GAZELLE
MIGHTY AS A LION
9
Notes
