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 [...]
I once saw the following quote: Empathy is like giving someone a psychological hug. When my sister died only a few months after my father’s petirah, Mrs. Z, who had been through her own challenging times, felt my mother’s pain; her heart ached for her, and she wanted to give my mother that psychological hug. So as she left the shivah house, she handed my mother a paper [...]
Hello, my name is Miriam Ribiat and I just would like to thank Chazak for giving me this opportunity to speak on their hotline. I guess I would say that my story really is a lot about loss, a lot about loss and grieving and I’m not going to go into details about everything that I went through. I went through two big losses that left me with [...]
לעילוי נשמת אליהו בן שמואל יעקב כ"ט ניסן תשס"ט Remembering My Father My father was a real family man. He loved when yom tov came around and his married children overran his home. The madness of everyone squished together gave him only pleasure. He especially loved giving each and every one of his children and grandchildren a berachah on Friday night. Each son-in-law became a son, and each [...]
Do you remember that girl in your class who was really pretty, whose hair was always perfect? Did you compare yourself to her and feel ugly? How about the girl who always had a witty response? Did being around her make you feel as if you were just so dull? Do you still find yourself thinking like that? Does your super-clean sister-in-law make you feel like an incompetent [...]
One day I stopped and said, “I was always plain ordinary me. I am just so regular. What happened? My life is not regular anymore.” Regular is a very broad word. What is regular for me may not be regular for someone else. But I think that most people will agree that their vison of regular does not include sitting at the bedside of three family members, watching [...]
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From Rabbi Yissocher Frand
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