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“Every little thing setting a little girl off” could be describing an emotionally dysregulated child

Rabbi Greenwald's column in Issue 1011, advising a mother with a daughter in shidduchim to clarify whether she wants a husband who learns or one who works, generated significant reader feedback. Two letters are presented here, along with Rabbi Greenwald's response.

Somehow, between labor and delivery, I’d learned that Nava is extremely left-wing secular. Now I commented, “Whoa, it must be really hard to work here in a snowstorm”

I checked the time. By now, my husband should have taken off. I dialed his number anyway. Of course, his phone was off

We are in the world of planting, but the time to reap will come

What do you really yearn for?

Straddling two worlds, we need tools for two realities 

Shlomo Hamelech compares an eishes chayil to one thing — a merchant’s ship