|
 |
TheJewishWoman.org: September 26, 2010 | | Sukkot, Hoshanah Rabbah & Simchat Torah |  | What Massage Therapy Taught Me About Simchat Torah
by Chava’le Mishulovin
For maximum effect, you need to deal with your 'challenge' from all sides. You need to focus the setting, gather your energy beforehand and then dispense it evenly and deliberately. A sudden spill of forceful energy in one area will never equate to careful attention to all details... |  | The Wonder of the Willow
— The Simplicity of Hoshanah Rabbah
By Shimona Tzukernik
The tree gives no fruit and the leaves give off no fragrance. Yet it is precisely in that “blandness” of being that we recognize the presence of something beyond. The willow’s minimalism is indicative of the inner point of the Jewish soul which is indivisible and thus empty of discernable distinctive qualities… |  | The Only Real Home
By Varda Branfman
She motioned me to sit on a bench next to the table covered by a white cloth. And then she sat down next to her husband who stood at the head of the table. Here was all of their furniture—two benches, a table, and the mattresses stacked up against the wall of the succah... | | Young Women Write |  | G-d on the Playground
By Tova Benjamin
I need to be a child again. When I was a child I saw G‑d. I saw Him, right in front of me. Children are special. They know things, they can imagine and they can see. Children can see G‑d... | | Poems about Expression |  | Friendship
By Ariella Friedman
Two small children
Walk hand in hand
Along a stretch
Of white gritty sand.
You shall love your fellow as yourself. | | Sukkot, Hoshanah Rabbah & Simchat Torah |  | "This Is My Torah Scroll"
By Ruth Benjamin
The soldier stared at the boy, fighting back tears. "Over these four terrible years, this is the first live Jewish child I have seen..." | | Women on the Weekly Torah Portion |  | Transmuting Impatience
— Parshat Bereishit
By Yehudis Fishman
Since leaving the Garden of Eden, human impulse is an admixture of both good and evil. Our task is not to squelch the impulse but to mine it, by toning down the mine aspect. |
|
| |
 |
|
|
November 14, 2010 |
| | |
|
November 7, 2010 |
| | |
|
October 31, 2010 |
| | |
|
October 24, 2010 |
| | |
|
October 17. 2010 |
| | |
|
October 10, 2010 |
| | |
|
October 3, 2010 |
| | |
|
September 26, 2010 |
| | |
|
September 19, 2010 |
| | |
|
September 12, 2010 |
| | |
|
September 5, 2010 |
| | |
|
August 29, 2010 |
| | |
|
August 22, 2010 |
| | |
|
August 15,2010 |
| | |
|
August 8, 2010 |
| |
Showing 7 - 21 of 50
|
|
| |
|
|
My husband had asked me a few weeks before my birthday what I wanted. Not really needing anything in particular, I smiled and said "nothing" telling him that being married to him was all I wanted. I was trying to be sweet...
|
|
|
|
