My four-year-old daughter loves to play house. Typical of a four-year-old girl, she usually wants to be the mommy. Often when she isn’t even playing she considers herself a mother to her dolls and stuffed animals. She leaves me with instructions for how to care for them while she is in school. So I wasn’t surprised when she started talking about becoming a mother for real, iy”H. One [...]
A year and a half ago I made a bar mitzvah. My son was the first grandchild on my side of the family. He was born a year and half after my brother passed away at the young age of fourteen. My son was named after my brother, and my parents felt a measure of comfort then. They were involved and loving grandparents. Although it was a long-distance [...]
As I sit down to write this I am hearing two voices in my head. One voice is saying this is something I really want to do. I know this type of thing is therapeutic for me. I always appreciate the comments I get when someone reads one of my articles. This will be so beneficial for my own healing. The other voice is asking me if I [...]
Dearest friends, I hope that the recent holiday season, the chagim, were meaningful for you, as well as enjoyable. I had the pleasure and privilege of spending several weeks in Jerusalem, and found it meaningful indeed. Although it had been such a difficult, tumultuous summer in Israel, spirits were high and the holiday spirit prevailed. ‘V’samachta b’chagecha v’hayisa ach sameach..’ And you shall rejoice with your holiday (holy [...]
Dearest Friends, We are living through a very difficult, very painful historical period. We are witness to chasdei Hashem, with the Iron Dome intercepting and destroying numerous missiles. We acknowledge the heightened sense of achdus that unites all of Klal YIsrael, here and in Eretz Yisrael. However, we mourn the loss of young lives; we weep copious tears together with their families. We feel deeply for those communities [...]
Envy me. Because I was at the funeral. When I heard the news that our three boys Naftali, Eyal, and Gilad were dead, my heart broke. The funeral glued it back together. The hespid for each boy was held in his hometown, followed by the burial of all three in the cemetery of Modiin, in the center of the country. We chose to go to the hespid of [...]
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