Comfort, Courage and Clarity

Comfort and Inspiration with Author and Educator Mrs. Miriam Ribiat

Meet the Author

By |2024-06-06T08:50:26-04:00December 7, 2021|

Reprinted with permission from Links magazine by Shaindy Perl Meet the Author of I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me Miriam Ribiat’s book, I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me, has received enthusiastic feedback from readers. In this interview, she shares her background and how she came to write this book. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your experience with loss? I live [...]

I Never Knew Your Father

By |2022-03-03T13:04:35-05:00November 25, 2021|

I Wish I Knew Your father Dear Friend, I walked away from being menachem avel you feeling very inspired.  I wanted to say, “I need to meet this man. Where is he? I need to have a talk with him.” Oh right, he isn’t alive anymore. I feel saddened at a lost opportunity. The way you described his love of Shabbos and yamim tovim left me so moved. [...]

Behind the Scenes: When Caring Counts Most

By |2023-06-06T19:25:22-04:00November 2, 2021|

How the Idea of When Caring Counts Most Was Born Rabbi Elchonon Zohn of NASCK (National Association of Chevrah Kadisha) never knows what his days will bring. As someone who is extremely devoted to the klal in inyanim of kavod hameis, he fields tens of phone calls daily with questions, concerns, and emergencies. One day a man came to speak to him, his face reflecting the crushing [...]

How My Father Made a Kiddush Hashem

By |2022-03-03T13:07:43-05:00October 5, 2021|

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 that left me in a daze. It was so astounding because it was my father who created this [...]

What’s in a Name?

By |2023-06-07T18:34:25-04:00September 13, 2021|

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 us asking for that help. The truth is that any davening gives the neshamah an aliyah, whether it [...]

If My Siddur Could Talk

By |2021-09-10T10:31:30-04:00September 2, 2021|

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 there inside I found a beautiful leather siddur engraved with my new name. I held it. I looked [...]

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