Musings - Mishpacha Magazine

Latest Musings

Musings

Finding Comfort in the Darkness

Rochel Burstyn

Musings

Aliza Radin

Musings

The Takeout Fiasco

Lori Holzman Schwartz

Musings

Bashie Lisker

Musings

Crafting Perspective

Esther Kurtz

Dispatch

My Homeless Friends

I want to humanize myself and, in an admittedly brief way, I want to humanize them

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

Dispatch

Hidden Chambers

Avraham looked and did not turn into a pillar of salt. She should not have looked. He did look. And he survived

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

By the Letter

But there’s also this part of me that says, You’re not good at this, no matter how much you enjoy it “It’s your time to shine,” my husband said. My brain immediately snorted — shine. In this area, I was competent at best. My son was having a succah fair after completing Maseches Succah in Mishnayos.

Mindel Kassorla and Mindel Kassorla and Cindy Landesman

By the Letter

Life is a cycle — and a spiral that pushes us higher

Cindy Landesman and Mindel Kassorla

Pesach Without Pressure

Pesach Without Pressure: Laya Appelbaum

Windex — it’s all about happy Jews and Windex.

Bracha Stein

Pesach Without Pressure

If you’re getting frustrated, you’re probably spring-cleaning

Bracha Stein

LifeTakes

A Day in the Life of an Eighteen-Month-Old

Oh… oh, you want your socks on TOP of your shoes. Okay, that makes sense. You’re the boss

Tzivie Lasker

LifeTakes

I might cry. I might whisper perakim of Tehillim. I might just plead with Hashem.

Esther Stein

bite the budget

One Fish, Two Fish

But there’s also this part of me that says, You’re not good at this, no matter how much you enjoy it “It’s your time to shine,” my husband said. My brain immediately snorted — shine. In this area, I was competent at best. My son was having a succah fair after completing Maseches Succah in Mishnayos.

Elisheva Frankel

bite the budget

More on Chicken

But there’s also this part of me that says, You’re not good at this, no matter how much you enjoy it “It’s your time to shine,” my husband said. My brain immediately snorted — shine. In this area, I was competent at best. My son was having a succah fair after completing Maseches Succah in Mishnayos.

Elisheva Frankel

Discover more

More Musings

Musings

There was a method within the madness, and I was feeling complacent that all was under control

By Tzippi Leibenson

Musings

Your Invitation to a Great First Date

Or how will all involved parties know how to prepare for this event?

By Miri Lederman

Musings

Olycklig to Lycklig

Back to Muskan. She felt awful, just awful, that I had received a dented Tjena

By Peshie Needleman

Musings

Colors of Goodbye

I’m left in a color wheel of confusion. What could I have done differently?

By Beth Firestone

Musings

I blame my mother. She hated making dessert, too — and so she didn’t

By Esther Kurtz

Musings

All of the Mes That I Could Have Been

Shouldn’t I be able to get everything done if I’m not working?

By Keren Elstone