My Tisha b’Av Confession
You can read this post, or watch me reading it in the video below I have a Tisha b’Av confession to make. I do not connect with the idea of the rebuilding of the Temple or the coming of Moshiach. I have a hard time believing it’s going to happen. At my weekly Shabbat class […]
Read MoreThe 1 Day I Didn’t Cover My Hair
Before I got married 22 years ago ago, I didn’t know if I would cover my hair after the wedding or not. On the one hand, my husband-to-be and I had been religious about 3 years already. But was I actually cover-my-hair religious? Hmmm, I wasn’t sure about that. So I bought 3 hats, just […]
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What the Rebbe Did After His Son Choked on a Marble
You can read this post or watch me reading it in the video below… Many years ago, the young son of the great Slonimer Rebbe, the Netivot Shalom, swallowed a marble. The Rebbe, fearing for the boy’s life, rushed with his son in his arms to the hospital. The doctor on call saw that the […]
Read MoreWhat Every Mother Needs to Know about This Year’s Delayed Tisha B’Av Fast by Rabbi Da’vid Sperling
This year the fast of Tisha BaÁv falls out on Shabbat, and is postponed until Sunday. So here are a few laws – especially for mothers. WHO NEEDS TO FAST THIS YEAR Because this year, the fast is pushed off, we are more lenient than in most years about who is allowed to eat on […]
Read MoreScientists Reveal the Impact of a Mother’s Love (3-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Do you ever ask yourself at the end of a long mothering day what you actually accomplished? Dr. Shlomit Mizrachi, an expert on brain and behavior from the Technion, demonstrates the dramatic impact a mother’s love has on our children’s brains and lives.
Read MoreWhy the Nose is the Most Important Part of Your Body
On the way home from summer camp today, out of the blue, my 5-year-old Yaakov informed me, “Eema, do you know what the most important part of the body is? The nose! If there were no noses, there would be no people in the world!” “Why is that?” ‘Because if people did not have noses, […]
Read MoreWhen Moshiach Comes, It Will be in this Woman’s Merit
by Ora Rivka Weingort You, who wake up in the middle of the night to nurse your son And you, who care for your mother in your home. You, who continue dating, and don’t allow despair to destroy you And you, who even on the hardest days goes to work. You, who despite everything, brought […]
Read MoreThe Greatest Gift G-d Gave Me is ADHD (30-Second Inspirational Video)
Rabbi Kobi and Racheli Dvir of Mitzpe Ramon have 8 children, all of whom have ADHD. Their son, David, now 24, was severely hyperactive as a child. He could not sit in class and even though he was extremely intelligent, he did not learn how to read well until he was in 8th grade. Today, […]
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