What Happened When I Let Everything Go (4-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Inspirational thoughts on serving Hashem as a wife and mother and Shavuot.
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Say Goodbye to Bedtime Battles (1-Minute Inspiration Flash)
I met this morning with social media expert Hadassah B. Levy, and I learned a ton about how to use the internet to inspire more JewishMOMs. She suggested I occasionally try using short videos instead of written posts. What do YOU think? Do you prefer reading written posts or minute-long videos like this? (If you […]
Read MoreDid You Hear the Joke about the Mezuzah?
A Jewish man buys a new home, and he brings in a local designer to decorate it. When the job is finished, the homeowner realizes he’s forgotten to put up mezuzahs. He goes out, buys mezuzas, and asks the decorator, who is not Jewish, to place them on the right-hand side of each door. The […]
Read MoreDealing with the Criticism I Got (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
A relative criticized my mothering, here’s how I responded…
Read MoreMother of Greatness: Remembering Rabbanit Shoshana Borstein
It was an unlikely match. She lived in Uruguay. He lived in China. She was 20. He was 33. But a determined aunt who knew both of them made this match happen–between Shoshana, the daughter of the Chief Rabbi of Uruguay, and her second cousin Shlomo Borstein, a rabbi at the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai. […]
Read MoreI Don’t Feel Numb Today
Yesterday, out of the blue, I felt numb. Nothing felt so bad but nothing felt good either. Even things that usually bring me pleasure or happiness or content calm brought nothing. No reaction at all. And then, this morning, I woke up, and when I walked bleary-eyed into the kitchen I noticed the tomatoes I […]
Read MoreHow the Rachmastrivker Rebbe became a Father after 21 Years of Marriage
The following is an edited version of the story that appeared in the Mishpacha article “A Path all His Own” by Yisroel Besser and Aryeh Ehrlich. 27 years ago, a taxi navigated the twists and turns of the road leading to Jericho, near the Dead Sea. Two passengers asked the driver to stop, then made […]
Read MoreMy Yom Kippur Big Mac
I was 18-years-old, a college sophomore in Maine on Yom Kippur. My college had flown up a student rabbi from HUC to lead the services, but I decided to play hooky from services and do my own thing to connect with this important day. At that point in my life, I knew next to nothing […]
Read MoreRising Above Disappointment (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Words of encouragement for when our dreams don’t come true.
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