When you’re not thinking about it, there’s restlessness and emptiness in your being. You turn the music up loud just to feel something beat in you
Yes, they are all slowpokes, and if only they would try to speed up a little…. But alas, the real fault lieth in me
Every Shabbos at 8 a.m. Chaya bursts forth, waving her arms overhead frenetically and intoning some well-meaning but inane advice to all assembled
Unwilling to drive home from the first Seder as she had done in previous years, she was going to spend the first Seder alone
The name Berel elicited a sigh — apparently, it wasn’t easy to help Berel. He was too rich, too poor, too independent, too much of a nebach
What do you know? Every woman above the age of 40 sided with my father. They were completely unimpressed with my chinuch
