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Habo Dror Eizor Guide - HDNA. weeks of school; that’s a great reason to go to
Sofie C. , Emma G. and Sophie B.
After high school, or after workshop for many,
young Habos must make the decision where to
continue the next phase of their lives. Do they
want to go to school? And if so, where? Do you
want to be close to home? Do you want to go to a
state school? Do you want to major in something
obscure like movies made in the 1950’s? Among
these many questions is the ever (Liat) popular,
ever troubling “Do I want to live in a Habo
eizor?” (eizor translates to area in Hebrew, but
in HaboDror speak it is an area with an active
concentration of Habos).
Ideally, each eizor has two functions –
to run a successful chanichim ken and to
run a successful ma’apilim ken. While in
this guide, we will read that most
eizorim are not entirely successful in
these realms, but that all of the eizorim
have the potential. It is important that
we recognize this. In the grand scheme
of HDNA, effective eizorim are integral
to our success and fulfillment in four ways: 1).
Eizorim engage chanichim during the year,
bringing them back to machaneh in the summer;
continuing and expanding the cycle, proliferating
the values of HDNA to chanichim. 2). Most of us
love being at machaneh over the summer and
being near Habos all year round serves as a
reminder that we should come back to
machaneah another year. 3). Since Habonim is, in
fact, a movement and not a string of summer
camps, is incumbent upon us as ma’apilim to try
to bring the kenim to the level of awesomeness
that we are capable of at machaneh. 4). It
enhances the lives of all those involved in any
and all aspects of the eizor. ROCK! EVAN (like
rock in Hebrew ) !
At the same time it should be clear that while
Habo is a full time deal at machaneh, during the
year can be more of a complement to the
studying or working we all do. The level of
involvement of the individual is up to you! If Bob
thinks it would be fun to party with Habos, to
see familiar faces on campus, and to have
somewhere to go during the first awkward
school in a Habo eizor. If Susan wants to have
weekly peulot with the chotrim in a certain
eizor, live in a bayit with Habos, and
revolutionize the movement as we know it; that
too is a great reason to live in a Habo eizor .
Most importantly, living in a Habo eizor has given
many people the balance they have always been
looking for. Haven’t we all wished during high
school that many aspects of our machaneh lives
could come home with us and play an equally
important role in our everyday life in the “real
world?” This wish can be granted in this
amazingly exciting time when you can CHOOSE
YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. As you grow older in
machaneh the friendships and support systems
continue to grow stronger. Why should
they end when you go to university? You
can choose together how to keep them
strong. You can go to school with people
in your national kvutza, whom you have
always dreamt of living near. You can live
with Habos. You can have Shabbat with
Habos. One group of Habos in a city can
raid the apartment of another group of
Habos. You can take lasses together. You can
have lunch dates. Shucks, you can even have
weekly brunch with 25 Habos. Chaverim, herein
lies the opportunity to converge Habo life with
the “real life .”
Please keep these things in mind as you browse
through the Eizor Guide. This guide is by no
means extensive enough. There is more to be
asked and said by all. This guide is just a place
to start. Each contact person is willing to answer
any more questions and assist in other parts of
the application/decision process, be it a weekend
visit, which classes to pick, which housing to
fight for, and which to avoid. So please keep an
open mind and use the resources given to you .
While much of this Eizor Guide is catered
towards those choosing to be in school, know
that this can be of use to everyone. There are
batim for anyone to live in and kenim that need
everyone to work in .