Amy Eilberg Rhetorical Analysis

During Rabbi Amy Eilberg’s talking workshop, we explored experiences of estrangement, conflict, and enmity in our own interpersonal relationships, workplaces, communities. The thing I found the most interesting to me was the quality of being a peace seeker. Knowing that she helps synagogues and Jewish organizations place the pursuit of peace in interpersonal relationships at the center of their communal mission, she is the ultimate peace seeker. Qualities of a peace seeker are having kindness, compassion, generosity, self-awareness, humility, curiosity, respect, courage, and equanimity. Being kind towards one another will give you a good peace of mind and if you're kind to others they will be kind back to you. Compassion is a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another person going through a tough time in their life. Having generosity is going out of your way to do something nice for someone
The topic my group talked about was the temporary immigration ban that President Trump ordered. I thought this was a good topic to talk about because being from south Florida there is a lot of hispanics and that may be a big problem for some of them. I thought it was very good for me to listen to my partners opposing views on it and compare our thoughts on deporting immigrants. I thought the mirroring part of the workshop was very well because you get to know if you're partners actually listened to your opinion and my partners listened very well to my opinions. One more important thing Rabbi Amy spoke about was that the idea that we are all just one and that if you hurt someone else it’ll just come back to you. This is a good lesson to learn and it will bring about a lot of good change in society. One other thing I learned from this workshop was the true definition of a hero. Something else Rabbi Amy Eilberg touched upon was her idea of a hero. She explained a hero as someone who is able to hold back from acting