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Bedrock of Belief
Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz
Bedrock of Belief
Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz
Bedrock of Belief
Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz
Bedrock of Belief
Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz
Bedrock of Belief
Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
The more we know about people, the more we know about the past. The more we know about the past, the better we are able to assess the present.
Rabbi Berel Wein
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
“This shameful bill passed controversially in the Knesset, is responsible for many premature deaths in dangerously ill people who avoided medical treatment out of fear of the draconian regulations allowing their body to be dissected after death.”
Rabbi Eliyahu Gut
Parallel Journeys
I look at my face in those pictures and see my innocence: How I thought things would stay that way forever, sharing a journey with Etty, sharing our lives.
Faigy Schonfeld
Parallel Journeys
Good girls don’t ask, I was told
Esty Mandelbaum
Simply Organized
After latkes and doughnuts, why not indulge in the gift of breathing space?
Miriam Yafit
Simply Organized
Let’s transform your personal space into zen and peaceful rather than cloudy and stressful
Miriam Yafit
Voices for Eternity
Esther was prepared to sacrifice everything—her very life and even her portion in Olam HaBa—for the sake of the people
Rebbetzin Shira Smiles
Voices for Eternity
The tefillos of men are carried upward through the prayers and tears of the women
Rebbetzin Shira Smiles
Sound Bites
With wisdom, humor, and a passion to help his contemporaries, he’s embarked on a mission to help other zaidies make the most of the time they have in the best years of their lives
Chaia Frishman
Sound Bites
I remember that feeling of drowning after I had my second baby in Israel, 14 months after my first. I didn’t want anyone else to experience that helpless feeling
Chaia Frishman
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All is not well in the Midbar. There’s turmoil in the camp, rebellion in the air. Korach and his followers are questioning Moshe’s appointment of several individuals to positions of authority, and they’re distrustful of some mitzvos he’s taught. When the dissidents refuse to submit to rebuke, how does Moshe, the raya mehemna, faithful and

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The ultimate goal of avodas Hashem is to eliminate bechirah, to reach the point where one no longer struggles with conflicted choices and is consistently faithful to Hashem’s will

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What is the equivalency between the cities of refuge in Eretz Yisrael and the Jewish prophets?

By Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz

Bedrock of Belief

“How astonishing it is,” the Chazon Ish writes, “that a person is able to share his worries with the Master of the Universe in the same manner that he would speak to a friend!”

By Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz

Bedrock of Belief

Principles Three and Four Ask someone, “What do you yearn for?” and you’re unlikely to get a shopping list of mundane wants and material desires. Yearning and longing lie in the domain of the soul. What does our innermost soul crave? Self-definition, security, connection. A sense of identity and belonging. We long for a place

By Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz

Bedrock of Belief

The story is told of a staunch maamin who faced an agonizing moment of challenge — perhaps before an auto-da-fé or inside the gas chamber. Confronting his destiny, he asserted, “I could not serve a G-d I understood — for then, He wouldn’t be G-d.” The Thirteen Principles of Emunah define the crucial underpinnings of our life

By Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz