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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Lessons In Emunah 412 Archived Articles Found in Lessons In Emunah Next 20 Articles > 1) Posted Nov 09 2011 An Act Of Kindness By Alan Magill Sara, in her mid-90s and living in an assisted living home in New York, gains joy when hearing from her son, her only child. Read Article 2) Posted Nov 02 2011 Big Bang On Glenbrook By Tzvi Jacobs For 10 years our front door was 35 feet from the busiest road leading in and out of Morristown, New Jersey. Zoom, zoom, zoom one car after another going 40-50 miles per hour, not only during the morning and afternoon rush hours, but all week long. Even when we stood by our front door, we had to yell at the top of our lungs to call to our children who were playing in our tiny front yard. "Why didn't you come in when we called you?" my wife often asked. "We didn't hear you," they often answered. Sometimes it was an excuse. On Shabbos, traffic was lighter but far from quiet. Many times we had to close the windows to have a conversation at our Shabbos table. Read Article 3) Posted Oct 26 2011 What My Dog Taught Me About God By Hanna Geshelin Upon request, I am sharing the following story from my friend, Mrs. S. Two years ago Mrs. S. was divorced after an unhappy, childless marriage. Now in her mid-60s, she has no interest in finding a new husband. At this time, she told me, she is just beginning to discover herself as an independent adult, and she is reveling in the opportunity to make her own choices on everything from what to cook for dinner to what color to paint the bedroom. The road to independence has been difficult. Using imagery from Psalm 23, she told me that she has come through the dark valley and is now walking in sunlight. However, she still wasn't feeling that God was with her. Read Article 4) Posted Oct 18 2011 Life's Cycles By Rabbi Zalmen Eisenstock "On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. Who shall live and who shall die; who shall grow old and who shall not " Read Article 5) Posted Oct 16 2011 Head Over Heels: Miracles For My Family By Debbie Garfinkel Diament My daughter, Mindy, and her family traveled from their home in Yerushalayim for a vacation trip up north. Unplanned was their opportunity to witness how Hashem literally saved their family's lives - not once, but twice. Read Article 6) Posted Oct 05 2011 One Formula Leads To Another By Esther Fuld "Statistics." As I uttered the word, I dreaded the thought of deciphering and computing Greek symbols and formulas for an entire semester. I wondered aloud, "Maybe I shouldn't even apply to graduate school now that I know college level statistics is a prerequisite. I haven't taken math since 1989 and I barely skimmed a B-. I doubt I could pass." Read Article 7) Posted Sep 27 2011 You've Got To Believe! By Penina Metal Whenever our dear friends Meni and Sandy are in town, we get together. Like me, they assiduously keep in touch, whether it's been years or months since we have last seen one another. Read Article 8) Posted Sep 21 2011 Under Scrutiny By Rosally Saltsman Living in Israel often requires financial wizardry and frequent access to miracles. I was privy to both one day when a remark I heard led me to borrow on some future payment in order to help me settle a loan. Read Article 9) Posted Sep 14 2011 Losing Yehuda By Chava Baars I once lost a boy named Yehuda. Do you know what it's like to wake up and feel sad for something you can't quite remember? Like you had continued to be active while you slept, but the memory of the day is teetering on the edge of your mind. That's what it felt like to lose Yehuda. Read Article 10) Posted Sep 07 2011 The Lessons Of 9/11: A Decade Later By Frumie Klein Maslow There was an air of desperation in my world and in the world in general that day. I was scheduled to take some critical health-related tests in a Manhattan hospital, and walking the streets of New York City two days after 9/11 was something I'll never forget. Passing others, you saw your own reflection, a strange mix of horror and elation. Some survived while others didn't; the line between life and death a mere few inches. Read Article 11) Posted Aug 31 2011 Are We At War? By Nechama Schwartz "Gas masks are being distributed free of charge. Please make sure to pick up your gas masks at your local pick-up point." A car circled the neighborhood publicizing the distribution of gas masks, urging us to pick them up in a timely fashion. Read Article 12) Posted Aug 24 2011 No Big Deal By Esther Gross During the summer my husband, children, grandchildren and I enjoy spending time in our upstate home. We and the other 200,000 people traveling upstate enjoy the fresh air the trip affords us. Read Article 13) Posted Aug 17 2011 My Brother's Gift By Debbie Garfinkel Diament Walking toward my destination, I was accompanied by a lingering scent of sweetness in the air. I slowly opened the door, and was instantly enveloped by the sounds of Torah learning. Read Article 14) Posted Aug 10 2011 Leiby's Legacy By Name Withheld Upon Request Note to readers: When I heard the words, "You give us seven minutes and we'll give you the world" on the radio at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, July 13, I never thought that what I was about to hear would shake me to the core and change my world forever. I could not come to myself - and I'm sure most of klal Yisraelcouldn't either. So I sat down and the following poem spilled forth. Because it is written in a simple style, simple enough for any child to understand, I hope it does not seem to trivialize what happened; it is just my humble reaction to an earth-shattering event. Read Article 15) Posted Aug 03 2011 Mother Knows Best By Penina Metal I am just a small-town girl whose aspirations never included the notion of traveling to exotic places. I dreamed of getting married, raising a family, and living near my parents and in-laws. Read Article 16) Posted Jul 27 2011 Hashem's Daffodil By Alice Gorenstein Pounding rain on the window pane Wind howling thoughts in my brain Who has witnessed times as these? Read Article 17) Posted Jul 20 2011 Losers Weepers! By Shayna Hunt I had worn the plain gold band for 21 years, eight months, three weeks, four days and some odd hours. My wedding band was firmly on my finger through three pregnancies, three labors, and a million plus diapers; through sickness and in health; through winters, springs, summers, and falls; through good and bad times. It was there each night I went to sleep and each morning I woke up through all that time. And then it was gone. It silently slipped off my finger on a beautiful, sunny spring day. Read Article 18) Posted Jul 13 2011 In The Midbar By Penina Metal In the mid 1970s, my husband was a newly minted chaplain in the United States Air Force and we would be stationed in the UK for a three-year tour of duty. We left behind our families, friends and jobs to face an uncertain future. Read Article 19) Posted Jul 07 2011 The Ring By Frieda Flusberg The year was 1971, three years after I lost my mother. My dear aunt, my father's older sister, who I took care of during her debilitating illness, was in the hospital, utilizing her last few lucid moments to give me words of comfort. Read Article 20) Posted Jun 29 2011 The Tree Of Life By Rosally Saltsman I met 35-year-old Ilan (not his real name) when I contracted him to do some work for me. When I seemed a bit anxious that things wouldn't go according to plan, he quoted from the Gemara and assured me that although he didn't look religious, he immerses in a mikveh every day and wears tefillin. In Israel, the general assumption is that the more religious you are, the more credible you are. In Israel everyone also has a story of a miracle, and it's common to share yours over business. So Ilan proceeded to tell me his. Read Article 412 Archived Articles Found in Lessons In Emunah Next 20 Articles >
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