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How My Father Made a Kiddush Hashem
The Creation of a Kiddush Hashem Perek daled, mishnah hei tells us about not causing a chillul Hashem. There is flip-side to this, and that is striving to create a Kiddush Hashem. The greatest form of Kiddush Hashem is amongst other Jews. I recently read a story about a Kiddush Hashem [...]
What’s in a Name?
What does your name mean? Giving the Neshamah an Aliyah Davening at the kever is a way of honoring the neshamah of the niftar and giving it pleasure. When we daven for the welfare of the niftar’s neshamah, it encourages the niftar to try to help us, even without [...]
If My Siddur Could Talk
If My Siddur Could Talk, What Would I Hear It Say? It was the night before my chasunah. I can still feel the mixture of fear and excitement that I was experiencing. When a small box was delivered to my house with a card, I tenderly opened it up, and [...]
A Burning Issue
By Margie Pensak As the West Coast director of The National Association of Chevra Kadisha (NASCK), headed by Rabbi Elchonon Zohn, Robin Meyerson has no shortage of sagas to share about educating the unaffiliated regarding the importance of kevurah k’halachah. Her volunteer position includes training hospice workers under the auspices [...]
And More Little Things…
"Your story ‘Those Little Things’ changed my entire perspective,” she told me. I was on the phone with a woman who informed me that a story I had written a number of years before had made a tremendous impression on her heart, and consequently on her life as well. Here [...]
