Bar Mitzvah Magazine 2014

Finding success after failure - Sports
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Life is not about how
fast you run or how
high you climb but
how well you bounce
back from failure.
By: Adina Jaffa
Masores Bais Yaakov
There was a girl, Tamar. Every Motzei
Shabbos, she went to play basketball.
While playing, someone threw a ball at
her. She didn’t know what to do! Oh, no!
So, she tried shooting it into the hoop
and missed. After that, the game ended.
Everyone was shouting, screaming and
embarrassing her. They said, “Why are
you so bad at basketball. We don’t want
you on our team.” She went home and
cried to her mother. The whole week she
practiced. She actually thought she has a
chance at winning. The next week came
and she said, “I am going to win this for my
team.” Right when the game started, she
stole the ball from the other team. She
dribbled towards the hoop. She heard her
teammates shouting over and over, “Go
Tamar!” She was very happy. All of a sudden
without her noticing, the other team
By: Teera Ades
By: Joe Ades
got the ball. Oh, no. So, she went and got
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it back. She made the winning shot. Yay!
One day, Adina was in gymnastics class.
She was with all of her friends. She was always
There was once a person who loved to
run in races. His dream was always to be
Her team won all because of her last shot
that broke the tied score.
behind on what they were learning. in the Olympics and to come in 1st place.
By: Melanie Ades
Her goal was to do a cart wheel on the He never ran a race but he told all of his
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balance beam. While she was trying to
do a cart wheel on the balance beam, she
fell. All of her friends laughed at her and
told her she wasn’t good enough for their
gymnastics class. She went home and told
her mom, “Everybody laughed at me and
said I shouldn’t be in their gymnastics
class.” Her mom said, “Keep on trying.”
Adina told herself, “I will do a cartwheel
on the balance beam.” She practiced and
practiced at her house until she knew how
to do it best. The next week, she went to
gymnastics. She showed all of her friends
how she cart wheels on the balance beam.
friends that he is going to win and that
he is the best runner. The next day, there
was a race. He was ready and confident
that he was going to win. He raced with all
of the kids and he came in last place. He
was heartbroken and very embarrassed
because he told everyone that he would
win but he didn’t. The next race he didn’t
show off and he got new running shoes.
He practiced for 3 weeks until the next
race. Before the race, he saw the best
racer in the world lose. He got motivated
from that because he thought to himself,
“If that person can lose, then, obviously,
All her life, Melanie wanted to be on
the gymnastics team. That was her main
life’s goal. She went to Aerial’s gymnastics
every Friday to practice. She asked
her coach if she can be on the team one
day. Her coach replied, “You can be on
the team if you practice more.” Every day,
Melanie practiced a little bit more. The
next week, she went to gymnastics. She
told her coach that she’s been practicing
more. “Now let’s see if you can do a back
flip off the balance beam,” said coach. She
did. Melanie was very excited. She got on
the team. The team was having a rivalry
against ACC gymnastics. She was nervous.
Her friends were impressed and took back I can too.” He raced in the next race and
It was her turn to perform. Melanie failed.
what they had said about her.
he won!
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