At the moment I am feeling immensely guilty because I just dropped Yonah off at Ruchama’s, even though all I’m going to be doing this morning is sleeping and, if I can build up the strength, go to the grocery store (Dad went to yeshiva with Shuie today). To my credit I did go […]

For the past three days, Yonah has had a high fever, runny nose and today broke out in an adorable rash. Dr. Wolf says it’s just a virus and that the rash (Roseola) is the final stages of the germs leaving the body. Well, thank Gd. While Yonah’s recovery is first and foremost on […]

Last night Shuie and I went to our friends Adiella and Binyamin Yitzchak’s Sheva Brachot (Sheva Brachot [Seven Blessings] are a series of dinners that take place each night for a week after a Jewish wedding). I had really wanted to go to their wedding, but one of the Jewish laws of mourning prohibits […]

I am one of those people who don’t do well when underslept; I get cranky, short and completely scattered. It was no surprise to me, then, after two nights of waking up with Yonah that I felt like an overturned mobile home in after a Kansas hurricane. I considered skipping my meeting and session […]

Living in a country whose language is not your first means that, pretty regularly, you are going to find yourself feasting on a thick slice of humble pie. In general, I can understand what people are saying to me after a five-second delay, and with my third-grade Hebrew skills I can pretty much get […]

The past couple of days have been a little loaded emotionally since Shira left. I think it’s to be expected that when one gets quality time with family and then it ends, one thinks about the importance of having family around and how hard it is to be far away. It is also understandable […]

The thing that I love most about you, my faithful readers, is how forgiving you are. Certainly you understand that I have been swept up in sisterly fun for the past few days and our internet has been moody (again), so I have not found the time to write. I know you’ll also find […]

In the Orthodox world, the standard response to “How are you?” or “How are things?” is “Baruch Hashem” (Blessed is the Name of Gd), which essentially means that no matter what the circumstances, one acknowledges that Gd is The Source and all that comes from him is essentially good. “Baruch Hashem” is also used […]

The standard greeting on Rosh Chodesh (the beginning of the new month) is “Chodesh Tov” or “Have a good month”. All I can say is, I hope it will only go up from here. I was completely pumped for my day at Moshav Modi’im for their women’s Rosh Chodesh celebration, but things got a […]

I got in touch with my new tutor yesterday (recommended to me by Leah Golomb) and immediately we both sensed it was a good shidduch (match). What I liked about her is that she not only has a wealth of textual knowledge, but she also has a store of factoids about different rabbis and […]