The Inside Story at Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah

A Burning Issue

By |2024-06-06T08:51:33-04:00June 15, 2021|

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 of her Rav, Rabbi Ariel Shoshan, and Rabbi Yehoshua Fromowitz of Ahavas Torah: The Scottsdale Torah Center, and [...]

And More Little Things…

By |2024-06-06T08:51:41-04:00September 22, 2020|

"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 is a recap for those of you who do not recall this particular story. There was a father [...]

Zera Shimshon Revisited

By |2024-06-06T08:51:48-04:00July 28, 2020|

I have written many stories over the years. Hundreds of stories. Many of them have made an impact, baruch Hashem. Once in a while, however, I have the privilege of writing something whose effect lingers on and on. Such was the story about the sefer Zera Shimshon. Seven years ago a friend approached me in Ramat Beit Shemesh. If I’m not mistaken, it was a Friday night, and [...]

Attorney for Heaven

By |2024-06-06T08:51:54-04:00May 18, 2020|

People love stories. People especially love hearing stories that are incredible, that seem almost too good to be true. This is such a story. I’ve never publicized it: What did I do, after all? I was just a messenger. But somehow, the story spread. First one person told me the story, never knowing that I was the man Hashem had sent to put things right. Then I heard [...]

Standing at Your Side

By |2024-06-06T08:52:01-04:00February 18, 2020|

You know, we had a baby boy a few months ago,” Reb Chatzkel* began, by way of introduction. “I was at the bris,” I reminded him. Reb Chatzkel smiled. Then he continued to tell me his story: Baruch Hashem, we have a bunch of kinderlach, and after the bris my wife went to the convalescent home for a few days. It’s the best thing in the world for [...]

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