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“You need to choose to fight this monster or he’ll get the better of you. You can live a happy life, you can break free of this. The first step is to want to get better.”
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“I’m not going to be riding horses anymore. And I couldn’t find a way to tell you, so I didn’t. But seeing as you’re here anyway, coming to tell me about other bad choices I’m mak ...
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“It’s your job, to make her smile, to bring her happiness, and a girl like this, she can use it. You’ll know what you have to do. It’s not as easy as you think, but it’s also not ...
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What does that feel like, to be at peace with your lot in life, even if that lot is standing at the corner of Kikar Shabbos and Malchei Yisrael on a cool Jerusalem morning, annoyi ...
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Now Jacob’s pathetic cries were a mockery, and I trembled, my knees pulled tight up to my chin. I could not, would not hold him in my arms and watch him slip away. Not again
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Sometimes you need to play nice, and dumb, and keep your insights to yourself. Sometimes you walk away even when you probably should stay. And you never tell people the answer — t ...
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It was different before the birth, what did he have then? Grainy images, a sound like a horse or a train that they said was a heartbeat, a baby that seemed all Denya’s — and now t ...
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Wrinkles are an honor when grandchildren count them. He has his four grandchildren from his son Meir. I, as he’s well aware, am a bubby to no one.
Magazine Feature
The best indication that the bodyguards for Israel’s Yom Tov guests are doing their job is that you can’t even tell they’re around
To Be Honest
For some reason, Klal Yisrael’s hearts and pocketbooks just don’t open in the same way when it comes to families of divorce
Heaven-Sent: Pesach Theme 5783
This Yom Tov, when Eliyahu HaNavi visits every household, we share a collection of first-person encounters, tales of miraculous intervention by a mysterious figure
A Better You
I encourage a small reframe, which can lead to giant changes: Don’t aim for control, aim to take charge
The Moment
Like anything a tzaddik says, the few words contained endless layers of meaning
Family Diary
“I apologize that this got so out of control,” he said softly. “Really, I wish it hadn’t ended like this”
