On the outside, I looked like a typical obese woman — someone who people assumed just couldn’t control herself. Inside, I was a woman struggling with an incurable disorder and infertility. And while it was true I was overeating, nobody knew about my out-of-whack endocrine system and how it was creating chaos in my body.
These couples traveled with heavy hearts to a distant mountain in the north of Eretz Yisrael, and trace their personal miracles back to that fateful journey
What happens when women leave behind their safe and familiar communities to spread the truth of Torah to Jews who have never experienced Shabbos or heard about kashrus? To get an inside look at today’s kiruv world, we’ve posed five frank questions to four dynamic kiruv wives.
Sharon Lobaton spent 27 years waiting, praying, hoping for a child. At the age of 52, she received the ultimate consolation. After sowing with tears, she finally reaped the joyous dividends — her newborn son, cradled in her arms.
What is my place in this society, as a single mother of girls? Do I have a portion in kabbalas haTorah if no one in my home is there in shul Shavuos night?
It started with one secular student whom her husband met in the Rebbe’s anteroom. It snowballed into a kiruv initiative that has touched thousands of lives.
