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Reality Check
Being positive and upbeat is a valuable weapon in the battle to stay healthy.
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Jumping The Shidduch Queue
When parents insist that their children, especially their daughters, wait for an older sibling to get engaged/married before green-lighting them to enter the “parsha,” they are sabotaging their futures.
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Heads Up: Mindful Walking
Remember how as children we were told to look both ways before crossing the street?
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Spiritual Mindfulness: Embracing Hillel
She is afraid to ask for the going rate for her skill set, aware that she is replaceable – and she needs the income from her job to help support her family.
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If It Is Broke
Whether there is a medical issue, a mental health illness or an addiction, it must be confronted. The first step to "fixing what is broke” is facing reality and admitting that something is broke.
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Who Is Going To Pay The Bills?
The consensus was that it had become exorbitantly expensive to be a frum Jew.
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Perspective: Silver Linings In Dark Clouds
Tthe kids will become creative and inventive and innovative. One teenage sibling I know, with a talent for sewing, is teaching her younger siblings how to use a sewing machine, including the boys.
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Human Coronaviruses
Uttering this plea is my verbal version of going after rodfei Yisrael. In Jewish law, one can initiate pre-emptive self-defense, and "take out" someone before they do it to you.
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Thinking Outside The (Chalitzah) Shoe Box
In the book of Ruth, we learn that Boaz married his late kinsman's childless widow. King David was a descendant of this union – and Moshiach.
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Covid on Wheels
There are dissenting opinions by health experts globally, especially now, a year later, but it’s not that simple to uproot yourself and go to a less hysterical jurisdiction.
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Judge Of The Truth
There are judges and lawyers both in secular and religious courts who ignored the facts so as to curry favor with the more prominent party in a financial or custody dispute. They frame their actions as...
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Money Makes the World – Collapse
There have been numerous tragedies that have resulted in premature death and irrevocable injury – some extremely unlikely to happen, and quite rare, but none were inconceivable.
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A Lesson Of Achdut From Man’s Best Friend
What struck me this time was the fact that these animals have no guyvah chinam – baseless snobbery. (Remember, you saw this phrase first here.)
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Educating Students To Watch Over Their Souls
I'd like to point out certain lifesaving classes that I think would be in the best interest of all students to be taught, and should be part of the curriculum.
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The Beginning Of Wisdom…
The beginning of wisdom is rooted in fearing Hashem. I realized that it is a supreme declaration of faith, emunah when one truly fears G-d.
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The Devil, Free Will And Covid
The last worldwide pandemic to hit the global population was the Spanish Flu, over 100 years ago. Over the last few months, I've asked myself why a pandemic now – and for over two years?
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Fighting Haman Through Praise
I have an accomplished friend who is careful to maintain a healthy weight and works out several times a week – yet she cannot accept a compliment.
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It’s All Relative
Over the years, I have been asked how I get ideas for my articles – often from conversations with random strangers! That’s actually how I was discovered way back in 1985!
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On My Own
It's extremely daunting and time consuming to basically put two strangers together and be a frequent go-between, negotiator, and adviser, but when it happens, and eventually children are born, you...
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The Middah of being Self-ish
Why consider yourself as being less? Aren’t you also made b’tzelem Elokim – in Hashem's image – and aren’t you worthy of help – from yourself?
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Belittle Your Kids And They Will Be Little
Kids, and of course adults, have an ingrained need to be validated; to have the ups and downs in their life acknowledged.
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‘Civil’ Divorce
I am well aware that if both spouses had the ability to compromise, capitulate and cooperate in order to emerge with an acceptable division of what is mutually theirs, they most likely wouldn’t be...
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Ignoring The ‘Facts On The Ground’
Sadly, those who should be supportive and encouraging may be pessimistic by nature or have their own agenda for not wanting the individual to succeed.
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Word Prompt – SPY – Cheryl Kupfer
The State of Israel exists, despite 75 years of being surrounded by countries determined to annihilate it, because of brave individuals who risked their lives in order to obtain crucial information by...
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Putting Your Best Self Forward
Ironically, many people, especially men become put together after marriage, when they are under the loving guidance of their wives who ensure that e.g. missing buttons are sown or stained shirts are...
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For Crying Out Loud
Chances are that the members of the band think they are impressing their audience with their talent by equating ear-splitting with cool. In a misguided attempt to win over fans and potential bookings,...
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Will Being A Gever Enhance Shalom Bayit?
While a woman might be initially flattered that her spouse has so much confidence in her and tells her to go ahead and make the decisions, it can backfire.
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Word Prompt – SCHNAPPS – Cheryl Kupfer
Over 50 years later, men pile out of the sanctuary as the rabbi begins his drasha to partake in the kiddush club, where they enthusiastically indulge in several bottles of whiskey, scotch and other...
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Life After Death
With these real life happenings in mind, I want to suggest that people consider an unusual arrangement that is a win-win for all potential participants as a solution to a complex and emotionally...
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A Vow To A Fallen Soldier
In memory of of the Chayalim of the IDF whose lives were prematurely snuffed out when they still had so much living to do.
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No Other Place I’d Rather Be
It felt so right to be where I was. I was HOME with my family. Come what may, this is where I was supposed to be. And I fully embraced this belief.
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Word Prompt – RUIN – Cheryl Kupfer
Ceaseless, persistent negative speech, lashon hara, can cripple, devastate, and destroy a person’s future and is the verbal equivalent of a barrage of missiles that demolishes a building.
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Word Prompt – SHVIGGER – Cheryl Kupfer
As we saw in the recent Olympics relay races, the baton is passed forward and the passer steps away; so too when a man or woman marries, parents have to let go of their biological baton.
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Cancer, Hamas And Get-Refusers
Hashem was very clear about how you deal with Amalek, of which Hamas is a spiritual, if not physical descendant (which it likely is with Ishmael commingling with Amalek over the centuries).
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The New Jews Of Europe
Kristallnacht, when Jewish-owned properties and synagogues in Germany were smashed and set on fire by frenzied mobs, will seem like a mild precursor to what Islamic fundamentalists are going to do to...
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Word Prompt – DOVES – Cheryl Kupfer
The dove was sent by Noah three times. It returned to the ark twice, portraying the middot of commitment and loyalty, both to Noah and its mate. It took its responsibilities to heart.
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Who’s Got You?
If the extremely wealthy are worried about the financial well-being of their descendants, how much more so should regular people be worried.
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Fraudadox – Frum Atheists
Over the years, people have shared horrific stories of financial and verbal and emotional abuse from family members and friends, and I ask myself, how could these so called frum people sleep at night.
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Word Prompt – KARPAS – Cheryl Kupfer
Karpas in my home was parsley, although celery was another option. (We did not use potatoes as karpas...)
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