Family First Inbox: Issue 802

“Seminary is not breeding grounds for dysfunction. It is actually a very ideal place to take the first timid steps into adulthood”

Normal: Chapter 31

Mimi’s still trying to process Ella’s revelation. Her friends… knew? They’d guessed?

In today’s society no one has ever learned to say “no” to one’s wants and desires

Mordy Kamenetsky’s entrepreneurial spirit has taken the primitive slurpee and elevated it from a typical July 11th treat to an experience

You’ve already understood and are successfully doing what many parents and grandparents fail to do: letting go

You don’t know all that, and you still sent over flowers to show that you’re happy for me

“You’re not in control of our fate.” R’ Leib shook his head. “Only Hashem is in charge”

Mental illness has nothing to do with character

She relaxes. Surely, it is a beit medrash of sorts. Perhaps they learn here the Zohar, the esoteric subjects, a soul’s journey in this world

He squinted in the darkness and stared, unable to process what he was seeing. Reuven? At Heshy Brucker’s tish?

In memory of Rav Shmuel Yehuda Levin