Answers for the Soldiers’ Wives’
At my son’s end-of-year party, his teacher shared a story about his wife, the principal of a girls’ school who took her teachers on a trip a few months ago to raise their spirits. Most of the teachers’ husbands had already been away for many months in Gaza or the North while the teachers were […]
Read MoreHow NOT to Give Chizuk
One day this week, at the end of a long day, I went to the gym to exercise and listen to some inspirational videos and a favorite audiobook and generally enjoy myself. And I was, until I ran into Leah*. An acquaintance I see sometimes around the gym.“Hi, how are you?” she asked, “please remind […]
Read MoreMy Blessing for My Son, the Child of a Convert and a Baalat Teshuva
[Our 11-year-old Yaakov is going into junior-high school next year, and his rabbi asked for us parents to write blessings for our sons in preparation for this momentous transition. Here’s the blessing I wrote for Yaakov):To our dearest Yaakov,In the “Al HaTsadikim” prayer, all kinds of people are mentioned who are an inspiration, who are […]
Read MoreMy New Book is (Almost) Born: Final Call for Dedications
Hi all, Don’t miss this last chance to send in donations for dedications for our new book Blessings: A Shabbat Dinner Companion by Friday, May 24th. Please contact me at crjorders@gmail.com or +972523257827 for more info about a limited number of dedication opportunities. If you missed it, here’s my original post about why this book […]
Read MoreThe Gabbait of the Kotel’s Reaction to My Post
This morning at pilates class I saw Aviva for the first time since I posted about her. For those of you who missed it, last Friday I wrote about how this Yemenite woman in her 60s goes to the Kotel every weekday at 3 AM, and has been doing so for 30 years. The other […]
Read MoreMy Daughter’s New Saying
My daughter Moriya is a national-service girl who travels all around Israel doing outward-bound type workshops with kids at risk. Often things don’t go exactly the way she planned. Often, in fact, things don’t go the way she planned AT ALL. So she made up a new saying, which she says to herself when things […]
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