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Penina | Baby Steps
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Tales from the Classroom. Growing and learning a little more each day. On February 21, 2016. This is something that’s been on my mind for a long time now. I have been motivated on and off over the years to write this, but I never had the courage. Now I do. Now I can. One thing I do know – we don’t have to do it alone. People have their reasons for keeping their struggles a secret, and I while I cannot fathom what those are, I respect their right to privacy. Isn’t that our job? 8211; as their family mourn...
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Try | Baby Steps
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Tales from the Classroom. Growing and learning a little more each day. On December 22, 2015. This was meant to be published for Chanuka). Over 2,000 years ago, the Macabees fought the Hellenists, the Y’vanim, the Greeks, and won. They cleaned up the desecrated Temple and oil that should have only lasted for 1 day lasted 8 times longer. It’s a story we’ve heard since childhood, repeated every winter. That oil lasts longer than it should? That we kicked out an army stronger and more prepared than us? The G...
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The Days of Judgement | Baby Steps
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Tales from the Classroom. Growing and learning a little more each day. The Days of Judgement. On September 12, 2012. My father at the Kotel (Western Wall), November 2011. This is a picture of my father, who passed away 4 months ago, six months after this photo was taken, just before Shavuos of 2012. Can you imagine what kind of thoughts are going through his mind? What level his tefillos are on? He’s literally begging his Creator for a little more time to stay on this world. Now he had what to cry about!
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Standing in Judgement | Baby Steps
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Tales from the Classroom. Growing and learning a little more each day. On September 12, 2012. Our lease was going to be up at the end of August so, after paying the full August rent, we moved out just before the trial date. B”H, we were offered a gorgeous new apartment with amazing neighbours and a wonderful 6th floor view. Doing research, I was anxious about the case. Constantly. For 2 months. But I was still nervous. Ultimately, no matter what I did, no matter how well prepared I was, our fate was ...
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We are the past, we are the future | Baby Steps
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Tales from the Classroom. Growing and learning a little more each day. We are the past, we are the future. On April 7, 2013. Why keep reminding ourselves about our painful past? Why do we subject ourselves to feeling the atrocities commited against us all over again? She then asked me a weird question. “When you get married, you’ll marry someone like you, Jewish? Then she said the two sentences that changed my life:. Our past defines us, it shapes who we are, what we believe and, more importantly, WHY we...
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Together | Baby Steps
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Tales from the Classroom. Growing and learning a little more each day. On February 21, 2016. This is something that’s been on my mind for a long time now. I have been motivated on and off over the years to write this, but I never had the courage. Now I do. Now I can. One thing I do know – we don’t have to do it alone. People have their reasons for keeping their struggles a secret, and I while I cannot fathom what those are, I respect their right to privacy. Isn’t that our job? 8211; as their family mourn...
