Why I Was So Jealous Last Week (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
What happened when my daughter was rejected and my friend’s daughter was accepted. https://vimeo.com/158797563
Read MoreA Song I am Loving: “Light Touches Light” by Moriah Nave
I read about Moriah Nave in Pnima magazine, and think she and her song are simply exquisite. Her song reminds me of something I once heard– that the word in Hebrew for crisis is “Mashber” which also means labor and birth. Or, as Moriah Nave puts it, “When the heart is splitting, a new day […]
Read MoreFrom the 1st Yahrzeit: Why Rabbi Gavriel Sassoon Doesn’t Ask “Why Me?”
This week, in honor of the 1st anniversary of the Brooklyn house fire which killed 7 of his children, Rabbi Gavriel Sassoon spoke in Jerusalem. Here is an excerpt from his speech: “Human beings by nature tend to ask and understand. “We are all human beings, and all of us can and want to ask […]
Read MoreWill You Miss This?
For years, when one of my little ones does something particularly annoying– like crashing a full bottle of balsamic vinegar all over the kitchen floor (Who: 15-month-old Yonatan, When: this past Friday) we Weisbergs always, always, always do the same thing… We launch into the chorus from a Country-Western song about a mother of young […]
Read MoreThe Jew Saved by a Cholent Egg
The Ben Ish Chai once told a story about a Jew who wanted to convert to Islam. But before he converted, he was required by law to meet with a rabbi. The rabbi asked him, “Do you like your mother’s Cholent?” The young man, not understanding the point of the question, said yes. “You should […]
Read MoreAnother Song I am Loving: “Even When G-d’s Face is Hidden”
Yesterday I went to an event for neighborhood parents, and a boy’s choir sang the song “Afilu b”Hastara”– Even When [G-d’s face is] Hidden. A lot of us were swaying back and forth with the infectious rhythm, and I looked around saw I wasn’t the only JewishMOM (or DAD) wiping away a tear. The words […]
Read MoreThe Ordinary Monster (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Don’t let the ordinary monster eat up the extraordinary in your life. https://vimeo.com/157903359
Read MoreThe Foods I Ate When I Was a Kid
This morning, I was walking along, minding my own business, when I saw an unusual truck. The funny thing was that the moment I saw this truck my mouth started watering and I felt strangely happy. This truck, I realized a second later, and its unusual door handles, was an icecream delivery truck, and it […]
Read MoreOur 20th Anniversary Chaperone
Yesterday, Josh and I went on an overnight trip to Nes Harim in honor of our TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY this Friday. 15-month-old Yonatan is still nursing, so he served as chaperone for our special getaway. For the most part, Yonatan wasn’t much trouble, as he sat in his stroller munching on chocolate-chip cookies and bananas. The […]
Read MoreThe Erloier Rebbe and the Jewish Mother
By the end of the Shoah, the 23-year-old Erloier Rebbe, who passed away this month, was left nearly alone in the world. As one of the only remaining direct descendants of the Chatam Sofer, the Rebbe dedicated himself for the 70 years following the War to rebuilding his great-grandfather’s tradition whose teachers and followers had […]
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