Comfort and Inspiration with Author and Educator Mrs. Miriam Ribiat
A Picture with Esti Dear Esti, I was straightening up recently when I came across an overturned picture. I don’t know where it came from, but when I turned it over, I saw that it was a picture of you and me leaning in toward each other, with our heads touching and your hand around my shoulders. I spent a few seconds looking at it, remembering where and [...]
Chanukah and Tefillah: The Connection You Never Thought About Before the Yamim Noraim, I received the following email from Links Magazine: Hi! We are working on the Yamim Noraim magazine and want to do a Part II to Tefillah Questions Answered (we printed Part I two years ago).Do any of you have a question that you’d like our rabbanim to answer, or has anyone shared with you a [...]
Winning Words: The Communication Dance The legacy of Aharon Hakohen is that he was a rodef shalom (Pirkei Avos 1:12). He loved peace and would make sure to create it whenever he could. The well-known example is that he would tell one person that the other person felt bad about their machlokes and wanted to make up, and then he would go to the second person and [...]
As the well-known mishnah says in Pirkei Avos (4:1), איזהו עשיר השמח בחלקו – Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot. There is no limit to what we don’t have. But what do we gain by going there? Misery? Jealousy? Hopelessness? We won’t ever be able to find contentment if we are always noticing the things that others have, that we really want [...]
Squishing into Yourself Have you ever tried to squish yourself into being something that you’re not? I did. I mean, actually I do. Maybe I am more aware of it than I used to be. But boy do I want to be as accomplished as this person, as geshhikt as that person, and as friendly as the next person. There is nothing like pre-Pesach to induce all my [...]
Life Is A One-Way Street My street became a one-way street, which is actually a good thing. We needed it to be this way. But it can still be annoying when I have to go all the way around to get where I need to go. One day as I put the car into drive, I inwardly groaned as I thought about driving all the way around the [...]
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