Bryna Conway

The Shabbos Urn

The first Shabbat after we moved into our house, we decided to go to shul. This was not out of any religious fervor, more an acknowledgement of our new start, a new phase in our lives – and curiosity to see what the people were like.

In Print / Lessons In Emunah

Receive Each Person With A Pleasant Countenance

By Bryna Conway

After decades of being the ba’al ha-bayit at his own Shabbat table with his family and guests, singing Eshet Chayil, making kiddush and hamotzi for everyone, and leading the singing of zemirot, all that had ended. Now he was always the guest.

In Print / Lessons In Emunah

From Annoyance to Acceptance, With Hashem’s Guidance

By Bryna Conway

I had suddenly grasped that I would have to change my whole attitude to Yitzhak, see him in a different guise from the irritating boy I had defined him as.