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Wednesday, May 09, 2018

The Endurance Challenge

I wanted to do the right thing and serve Hashem in the best way possible — I just couldn’t. And the more I tried, the more my body rebelled.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Finding Purpose in the Pain

I was stunned and devastated. Feeling that I had nothing more to live for, the only thing I could think of doing was taking my life

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

The Provider

Until the day I got married, at the age of 20, I handed over every penny I earned to my father to help pay the bills

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

A Good Life

I said no. But there weren’t many other viable options, and my parents and siblings kept urging me to reconsider. So after a while, I said yes

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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Full Snack, Full Mother

What do you know? Every woman above the age of 40 sided with my father. They were completely unimpressed with my chinuch

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Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Rising from the Ashes

She may have survived the war and built a successful professional life for herself, but part of her died in Auschwitz

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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

By a Stroke of Divine Providence

She didn’t seem to understand that I had almost died. Or maybe she would have preferred it that way

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Wednesday, February 07, 2018

With a Hand Tied Behind Me

Many times, store owners and random people on the street screamed for Hatzolah to be called when they witnessed my sudden attacks

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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Precision Missile

There are times in your life when you feel that Hashem is speaking directly to you, and this was one of them

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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Challenger

There was no way I could explain to Gedalyah, or his family, why I wasn’t interested in naming after Bubbe

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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Hungry for Support

“You know how our community is,” he said. “And you have to think about what this will mean for your other children’s shidduchim”