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C. Saphir

C. Saphir

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LifeLines
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
I never saw my parents fight. Nothing in their marriage had quite prepared me for what my own shanah rishonah would look like.
LifeLines
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
By the time the rosh yeshivah made his decision, Eli was done with learning. The emotional limbo had been so draining for him that he had no interest in looking into other yeshivo ...
LifeLines
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
The star pitcher turned movie producer was strapped unceremoniously into an ambulance and taken to the hospital, where he was forced to take his medicine. And he lived happily eve ...
LifeLines
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
“I might die within two or three years. But before I die, I’m going to work on my middos and become a better husband and father.”
LifeLines
Saturday, September 13, 2014
This isn’t the foil pans, Ma, I thought. You’re just overworked.
LifeLines
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
I raised and married off nine beautiful children. But now I'm enjoying my empty nest. The year my grandchildren stayed with me the week before Pesach, I snapped.
LifeLines
Monday, December 03, 2012
Had I been looking to teach Torah for the sake of teaching Torah alone, I would have had plenty of opportunities to do that.
LifeLines
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
“B-b-but,” I sputtered, “how could we give them a shtar mechilah if they never even said I’m sorry?  How do you forgive someone who never asked for forgiveness?”
LifeLines
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
As girls wait anxiously for the right one and slowly, slowly lower their expectations, all the good boys disappear.