Here’s another one from Elana.

I was obsessed with getting extra credit points in school, so when my teacher offered extra credit to do a presentation for our class, I jumped at the offer.

My friend and I had to do a presentation for a concept that started with the letter “bais”. We decided to do a documentary about bitachon.

I filmed and interviewed the funniest teacher in the school, the weirdest teacher in the school, the prettiest teacher in the school that half the students had an enormous crush on, and some students. Everyone said marvelous things about the faith they had in Hashem orchestrating everything that happened in the world.

It was great, but we needed something nice and fluffy to finish off the documentary. My friend said “If only we could use the music video that came in the mail last week! It’s all about faith and it would be perfect.”

“Why can’t we use it?” I asked.

“It was from Christian missionaries.”

“Can I see it?”

We watched it together. There were no crosses, no mention of Jesus. It was targeting people who would be resistant to Christianity so they were very subtle. The song was a a church hymn.

“We’re using it”, I told my friend.

“But we’re going to get into so much trouble! Mrs. K. will never approve it!”

“Nah, when we show it to her, I’ll put the volume on really low and tell her there’s a problem with the audio that we’re in middle of fixing.”

We showed it to our teacher, who loved the documentary and gushed about it for ten minutes straight. Re the music video, she said, “Okay, it’s frum music, frum people singing?”

With solemn straight faces, we said “Yeah, all the people singing it are very religious.”

“That’s wonderful. Girls, I love it so much, we’re going to show it to the entire grade.”

So my entire grade sat and watched a documentary about bitachon in Hashem – and a video from Christian missionaries.