What makes the experience of starting out married life in Eretz Yisrael so elevating and valuable for some couples, and so disastrous and destructive for others?
I could not have conjured up these words of hope and prayer if I tried, too cold was my heart. But they articulated exactly what I wanted to express to Hashem.
And so the day after her levayah, as I watched her husband crumple in on himself, I took a kabbalah on myself. For Chemda, who had been a true tzanuah, I would cover my hair in th ...