My Dream Shabbat?
This Friday night was my perfect Friday night. We hosted a group of lovely tourists from Atlanta, non-Jews as well as Jews who’d never experienced a traditional Shabbat before. They came early enough for me to light Shabbat candles with them, and after we lit and said the blessing all together I told them “Shabbat […]
Read MoreLucy Dee’s 7 Tips to Live a Great Life
From Rabbi Leo Dee’s Eulogy for his wife Lucy HY”D Transcribed by Sara Minkin
Read MoreA Eulogy for Lucy HY”D
After 25 years of marriage, Rabbi Leo Dee’s heartbreaking eulogy for his wife, Lucy. This eulogy, to me, feels like a guide to a superior marriage and life, as lived by Lucy Dee. Join over 8000 people who have already signed up for the Dee Family Pirkei Avot initiative: receive a weekly mishna to learn […]
Read MoreWho Stole the Afikomen this Year? by Nadav Naveh and Kids:)
Another scarily realistic clip from the parenting trenches. Enjoy and chag sameach!
Read MoreGoodbye, Lucy HY”D
Today we participated in a Chol HaMoed event attended by thousands of Israeli families. Towards the end, one of the organizers took the microphone, his face set with a grim expression in jarring contrast to the festive atmosphere: “I am sorry that I need to inform you that the mother, Lucy Leah Dee has died, […]
Read More7 Children HY”D
The terror wave of the last 2 months has claimed so many children. So many young people’s lives snuffed out as they were just beginning. During today’s heartbreaking funeral for sisters Maia and Rena Dee, I was so struck by the eulogies for these remarkable girls. “Maia,” her weeping father Rabbi Leo Dee said, “had […]
Read MoreThe Murder of Rina and Maia HY”D and this Week’s Haftorah
On Friday, I heard the horrific news of the brutal murder of Maia (20) and Rina (16) Dee from Efrat while on a family Chol HaMoed trip in the Jordan Valley. Maia was a seminary student at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Lod, and Rina was a 10th grader at Ulpanat Kiryat Arba. Their 48-year-old mother, Lucy […]
Read MoreDivine Providence at the Mikveh Kelim
We are making a model seder for 47 Taiwanese guests this Shabbat Chol HaMoed, which is why I found myself yesterday, Erev Bedikat Chametz, buying large quantities of tableware and dunking them in a Mikveh Kelim, a ritual bath to make utensils kosher. To accomplish this feat I rented a car from a car-share company. […]
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