“To those children who were fortunate to be part of this summer experience: Please be sensitive and understand that not everyone was able to do it”

“Every year people think it’s the teachers who inspire the students. In my many years of teaching, I find that it is often me who is inspired by them”

“When offered DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) and DNI (Do Not Intubate) forms, do not sign unless reviewed and approved by a rav”

“And finally... Mrs. Friedman’s Savta story. You Get It”

“But it’s a rule, and like it says in Pirkei Avos, if we didn’t have rules, we’d eat each other alive”

The one that moved me to tears the most was The Kichels. Sounds strange — a comic strip bringing a grown woman to her knees

“Sometimes it’s not that Hashem heard our tefillah and said no. It’s that He accepted the tefillah — but not necessarily for now”

“Mordy, thank you. Thank you for your courage in sharing a chapter of your life that most people would try to bury forever”

“We can’t control how many days we’re given. But as the Rambam reminds us, we are very much responsible for how we spend them”

“Seeing this magazine lying around my home over Shabbos with a rasha on the cover was not only disturbing, it was unacceptable”

“The Israeli army’s tendency to ‘kochi v’otzem yadi’ should not preclude us from expressing our hakaras hatov to those who serve”