Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah

Binah Everything was so completely ordinary—until it wasn’t. The before and the after. Although there was also a nice amount of during as well—in between the before and the after. Sound confounding? That’s because it is. It is so confounding that those who know Miriam’s family are still trying to make sense of it—although they know they never will; not in this world. Self-described “ordinary” Miriam Shoenig Ribiat grew up in an [...]

Yated I had lost my mother nine months previously, and I felt her absence everywhere. I wanted to pick up the phone to share some news with her. I wanted the encouragement to diet (or the compliment that I didn’t need to!). I couldn’t imagine making Pesach without her standing in the kitchen alongside me. I needed her advice about a career change I was considering. I missed [...]

Illuminations of the Magid Mrs. Robin (Davina) Meyerson and her husband Charlie (Yoshiyah) are Orthodox Jews in Scottsdale, Arizona, who are members of the Rabbi Ariel Shoshan’s shul, Scottsdale Torah Center. They are deeply committed to Torah and mitzvos, but to their family members they are an island unto themselves. None of their relatives are observant and their lifestyles are dissimilar to that of the Meyersons. Mrs. Meyerson’s [...]

Yated The novi Yeshayah tells us in this week’s haftorah that we must feel comfort following all of the destruction we felt on Tishah B’av. Nachamu, nachamu, ami.  Rav Avrohom Kluger in his Sefer Nezer Yisroel tells the story of a rov who went to pay a shivah call to a family who just lost a child in a terrible auto accident. Besides the grieving parents, there were many older siblings sitting shivah at the home, and all week they had been [...]

Five Towns Jewish Times By Rochelle Maruch Miller Several years ago, Rabbi Moshe Haikins, Founder and President of Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah attended a Federation-sponsored conference in New York about issues related to bikur cholim, since  unfortunately,  bikur cholim can lead to nichum aveilim. At one of these events Rabbi Haikins received a folder containing an assortment of information, including a DVD by renowned lecturer Rabbi Paysach Krohn about [...]

Arizona Jewish News By: Leisah Woldoff | Managing Editor of Arizona Jewish News January 2016 A new book designed to help children cope with the loss of a loved one was inspired by the work of a Scottsdale mother. A few years ago, Robin Meyerson of Scottsdale helped edit a book entitled The Neshamah Should Have an Aliyah: What You Can Do in Memory of a Departed Loved One,” designed [...]