Make the Call (5-Minute Rabbi Yoel Gold, Yom Kippur Video)
As always, this video by Rabbi Yoel Gold is super inspiring. Don’t miss the surprise ending…Gemar Chatima Tova!
Read MoreMy Kreplach Crime
This morning, Jerusalem’s largest supermarket was swarming with at least 500 costumers. I don’t have a car and they don’t do deliveries, so I only brave the crowds there twice a year to pick up frozen kreplach* before Yom Kippur and Purim. In Israeli supermarkets, customers need to insert a 5 NIS coin when they […]
Read MoreThe Ben Ish Chai: 5778 Will Be an Amazing Year
Unprecedented flooding in Houston. A catastrophic tropical storm in Florida. Threats back and forth with a nuclear North Korea. With the news looking like it does this month, I assume I’m not the only person concerned about what this new Jewish year–5778–has in store for the world. So I was relieved to hear promising news […]
Read MoreMy Yom Kippur X-Ray
This morning I was thinking of walking to the Kotel to engage in some pre-Yom Kippur deep thinking and praying. But then it occurred to me that on the way to the Kotel, I should stop off to do that that chest X-ray my doctor recommended to figure out why I’ve been coughing for so […]
Read MoreOur African Rosh Hashana Guest (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Some special Rosh Hashana guests who got me thinking about the real meaning of teshuva.
Read MoreWearing Pajamas on Rosh Hashana
A Charedi woman once told Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi: “I used to be judgmental of people who were different from me. “But I changed when my son got cancer. “When I was in the hospital with him, everyone there was wearing pajamas. “So I made friends who were religious but not Charedi, friends who were traditional, […]
Read MoreThe Fruit of the Belly
I haven’t read this book on pregnancy and birth, but I think author Kineret Dror (whom I met selling her book at the Pnima Conference) came up with the best title EVER for a book about pregnancy. The title “Boreh Pree HaBeten” (The Creator of the Fruit of the Belly) is a play on words […]
Read MoreHealing from My C-Section by Anonymous
I broke two dishes in one day; if I break 2 dishes in a year, that’s a lot. I knew something was not right, so as I looked at the pieces of broken pottery on my counter, I thought about what just happened. Rewinding 30 seconds, right before the dish broke, I had been thinking […]
Read MoreWhat the Female Surgeon Told Me (6-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
I was impressed by the female surgeon I met this morning, but she was impressed by me. Here’s why… If you cannot see video, watch at this link.
Read MoreStop Being the Japanese Soldier
Long after World War II had ended, there were Japanese soldiers hiding in island jungles across the Pacific who never heard that the war had ended. In fact, the last Japanese soldier to surrender did so in 1974. Hiroo Onoda (in the photograph above) had been hiding out in a jungle for 29 years when […]
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