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"We can lose our true selves. We can forget who we are. We start to just follow— a word that has taken on a whole new meaning in this age of social media. We follow those we admire, sometimes for all the right reasons and sometimes for all the wrong reasons. We follow down a path of who we think we need to be in order to fit in or get into the Greek house we think we want or show we are better than someone else in our study group or put on a good face for Instagram when we're really feeling lonely in this new place" Tilly Shames, Hillel executive director at the University of Michigan

TILLY Shames is the Executive Director of the University of Michigan Hillel. She joined the University of Michigan Hillel team in 2008. The quote below was taken directly from her 2017 high holiday sermon titled Finding Meaning in the Ordinary. Her motivating words touched everyone in the room, and gave clarity to what is most important in life. Click on the following link to read the full version of her sermon

 https://michiganhillel.org/tillys-rosh-hashanah-sermon/.

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