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Family First Feature
It’s tempting to bypass the distressing feelings and skip straight to declarations of emunah. But true emunah requires facing pain and ambivalence, and only then transcending them

By Sara Eisemann

Personal Accounts
Wherever we are, whoever we’re with... On the seventh day we rest. Nine tales of Shabbos spent in unexpected spots

By Family First Contributors

Family Matters
I think the reason she chose me to be her confidante is obvious: I’d been a caregiver. I’d been there. I would get it

By Joan Zlotnick

Fiction
“He’s not one of those guys who opens the cream cheese container but leaves the plastic wrap half attached on top, is he? Because that’s bad middos”

By Yael Zoldan

Behind the Book
As humans, we have many different parts of our personalities. We also have weaknesses and wounds. But as Hashem’s people, we have an actual part of Him within us. That’s our Aweso ...

By Riki Goldstein

Yardsticks
Shevy twisted the bag around her finger and inhaled. “I’m not dumb. I know something’s wrong. You’re hiding something about the Engels. What is it? Tell me, I can handle it”

By Esty Heller

Vacancies
Naomi sighed. This was ridiculous. She’d been married for 16 years. Why was she still worrying about what her sisters-in-law thought about her?

By Michal Marcus

LifeTakes
And then it’s time for the most important, most integral part of Visiting Day: leaving camp grounds!

By Dini Stein

Text Messages
For some reason these heterodox clergymen are far more interested in bettering the lot of chassidic kids in Williamsburg than secular Jewish kids in their own congregations

By Eytan Kobre

Shul with a View
If and when your rabbi asks you to be the honoree, have rachmanus on him and say yes

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman

Fundamentals
We gain comfort when we realize His presence never left us

By Rebbetzin Shira Smiles

Story Time
“Aharon, why should I trust you? The last time I went with you, I woke up all alone in an unfamiliar forest”

By Y. Bromberg

The Road Home
Not only am I new to this school, but I will be hopelessly uncool here. I have all the wrong stuff, even if it was all just fine “back home”

By Malka Winner

Personal Accounts
In a special collection of memories, vacationers share their privileged glimpses of Torah giants in the relaxed summer settings of the mountains and seaside

By Mishpacha Contributors