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I Lift My Eyes to the Hills by Ora Baranes Lilintal
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read moreKreesmas Lights in Our Succah
Every Succot, we decorate our succah with these little colorful lights that growing up we–Josh as the son of a Catholic mother, and I as a student at a Christian prep-school–knew as Christmas lights.When Josh and I came to Israel over 30 years ago, we found it very entertaining that the Israelis selling these lights only knew them as “Lights for the Succah.”But then this year, it happened. Josh went to buy “Lights for the Succah” and the Israeli seller said, “Ah, you want Kreesmas Lights?”So this...
read moreThe Song all of Israel is Singing: “You Always Love Me” by Elyatsur
Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por Chana Jenny Weisberg (@jewishmomcom) Everywhere I go this week, I hear people singing this song (based on the words of Rabbi Shalom Arush.) In succahs. On the radio. My kids (and me) in our kitchen. Enjoy and chag...
read moreDead Car Battery, Dead Phone. and the Woman who Yelled at Me
A Dead Car, Dead Phone, and the Woman Who Yelled at Me A traumatic encounter and a Mobileye angel. Chag sameach!
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The Siren and My Tattooed Savior
My daughter’s starting an MA in psychology in Jaffa this November (this is the same daughter who was devastated after being rejected last year from all the programs she’d applied to, and b”H this year SHE GOT IN!!)* So this afternoon I drove her with her stuff for to her new apartment. Afterwards I went to find something to eat near the Flea Market. and after eating a delicious sabich, I heard the dreaded rise and fall of a sirenI stood up, looking around for a shelter in my unfamiliar surroundings when I noticed a bunch of...
read moreIDF Rabbi’s Powerful Prayer with Soldiers Entering Battle
This remarkable video has altered the way I think of IDF soldiers. At this prayer ceremony before entering battle, all machismo evaporates as the soldiers turn to Hashem with such vulnerability and sincerity. Like a personal Neila prayer, battle after battle. Today was a challenging day for Israel, 25 soldiers were injured in battles with Hizbollah in southern Lebanon, 2 of them severely. 67 Israeli civilians were injured by an attack drone that somehow snuck past Israeli radar, 4 of them critically. Please Hashem hear the prayers of these...
read moreSupermarket Tsaddikim
[Every day, my learning partner Ilana and I share moments of Divine Providence we experienced. Here is the wonderful story she shared with me this Friday…] Today at 12:30 I realized that I’d run out of oil for my Shabbat candles. So I ran to the mall. My regular oil guy was already closed. So I ran down to the Osher Ad supermarket. Customers were still leaving, but the guard wasn’t letting anybody new in. I begged the guard, “Please, I need oil for my candles!” but he wasn’t budging. 2 young men who were...
read moreHome with Kids this Yom Kippur?
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