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How a Jewish NFL Agent Balances Faith and Football (ABC News)
Here’s a news story to share with football fans in your family and beyond. Ness Mugrabi, agent to some of the biggest names in the NFL, will answer his phone day and night, any day of the week, except on Shabbat. What an inspiration! May Hashem bless him and his beautiful family with continued...
read moreThe $1000 Car Repair
Last week I bumped into another car and knocked my front headlight a bit out of place. At the garage they told me I was going to have to replace the entire front bumper. Cost: Over $1000! Around that same time I had also been thinking of making a donation to our friend’s organization that provides food packages to needy working neighborhood families. In honor of the 10 Days of Teshuva. Teshuva, tefilla, tsedaka remove the evil decree, and all that. That same day, our friend sent me a receipt for a previous donation, so I asked him for...
read moreWhat You Want and What You Have
With blessings for an easy and meaningful fast! Gemar Chatima Tov ❤️ 📖 ✡️
read moreGrowing Older
As we all get ready to pray to be inscribed for another year in the Book of Life, let’s feel grateful for those wrinkles and gray hairs: a sign that our prayers have been answered every single Yom Kippur until now! Gemar Chatima Tova 🍎🍯✡💟
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2 Things that Made Me Smile Today
This morning I had to smile when, by the entrance to my corner store, I saw this stand teeming with unsold honey cakes. On clearance sale, for just a dollar and a half. One fifth it’s pre-Rosh Hashana price.🍎🍯When I came back a few hours later the stand seemed just as full as it had this morning… This afternoon I took my son to the lumber yard because he plans to build a shelter for the family bikes. But when we got there I discovered I was the only woman on the premises. Like the corner store the lumber yard was also...
read moreGod’s Love Language
I’ve always had a hard time feeling Hashem loves me. The problem is, I just don’t get it. Hashem is infinite, omnipotent, impossible to comprehend. How is it possible to feel loved by this infinite, omnipotent, incomprehensible entity? But last week I had a timely God’s-Love breakthrough in my Elul writing workshop with Yocheved Rottenberg that transformed my Rosh Hashanah. My embarrassingly simple realization was this: just like we human beings have different love languages, I can experience Hashem’s love for me...
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What the Husband told his New Wife after the Terrible Accident by Rabbi YY Jacobson
A powerful message for the new year. My life and everyone and everything in it are lechatchila, not bidyavad. One of my main goals for this year is getting this message from my head into my heart. Thank you to Rabbi YY for sharing this incredible story that brings this message to life. Gemar Chatima...
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