It’s time to take a look at another chunk of ‘info’ that just swung loose. The real title of this post should be ‘Frankists and the Eda Hareidit’ – although if I actually made that prominent as the title, this post would probably be shadow-banned right out the door. That’s also why I stopped tagging […]
In every generation, there are 36 (and some say 72….) hidden tzaddikim. These are known as the ‘lamed vav’ tzaddikim, and Hashem created the whole world, and continues to sustain it, in the merit of these holy tzaddikim. And they exist in every generation. Even ours. ==== Just what’s the problem? The problem is that […]
On Shabbat, I was reading a bit more of the Kochavi Or book in Hebrew, telling more accounts of Rabbenu’s dealings with the maskilim in Uman. One of the stories really caught my eye. It was after Rebbe Nachman had passed away, and Breslov chassidut – and Rav Natan Sternhertz in particular – were going […]
I got into such a bad mood before Shabbat. I had a big plan to make a milky Shabbat, replete with filo pastry mushroom bourekas – handmade, with love and lots of butter. And there wasn’t a lot else on the menu. My husband, may God bless him with every good thing, and lengthen his […]
The Rav typically calls these Atzerets when the storm clouds are starting to gather again. Even though I’m not following the news much these days, I can still tell you that: There are massive fires going on in Hawaii – Maui, with almost a hundred people dead. I think that’s the magma moving – Hawaii […]
Yesterday, I went to the Henna (engagement) party of a girl I’ve known for almost a decade. She was the best friend of my daughter in school. These girls went through so much, before they ended up in a school that seemed like the answer to a parent’s dream – for the year it stayed […]
Just got back from Shabbat in Tsfat. It was pretty relaxing… no internet for nearly three days… I will write more about the trip another time, maybe. But then I ‘check in’ with my two telegram channels and one other blog… and all of a sudden, my neck is twinging again from the stress of […]
No, really. The last couple of posts have been really important to get ‘out there’, but also quite heavy to deal with, for a few reasons. So, let’s switch gears a bit, and take a look at why things are not as bad as they sometimes seem. God has put so much free abundance in […]
A commentator left this on the bottom of the last post. It had a very profound effect on me, so I’m giving it its own post. And let me add a story that I heard from one of my daughter’s friends – a Shomronista, a ‘settler-ite’ – who got caught in terrible traffic in Jerusalem […]