Mishpacha Magazine

A Chanukah Miracle

“No one else can help me. You’re the only One who can give me children and a healthy pregnancy”,

Oh, yes! Little Naomi, our tiny jellybean, so recently a helpless blob in a car seat, is about to go on her first ...

“I don’t want to forgive her I don’t want to forget. I want to wallow in bitterness toward her.”

It made no logical sense that I would be losing so much money in one day. And it wasn’t just any day, it was ...

She’s not frightening, she’s in pain, that’s all. She’s just a woman alone. Like me, really

She’d passed on shiurim, begged off friends’ invitations, wrapping herself in the new threads of marriage, tight to choking. ...

She concludes again, realizing dimly that she’s repeated the exact answer she gave — Shana? Yehudis? — last year, almost word for word. But so what?

I felt entirely at peace. My tefillah had been heard on Yom Hazichronos — — heard, and answered. The answer was no. And that was okay

I wept. In a strange shul, with an unfamiliar crowd, I was uninhibited, free to access my emotions and come closer t ...

He’s done his job. Given her the food, though he can’t seem to shut off the annoying little calculator in his brain ...

It was a heady feeling. No longer the tall, enigmatic figure hovering on the fringes, I was now an irrefutable part ...