יום שישי, כ״ה תמוז תשפ״וFriday, July 10, 2026
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By Anonymous
I felt good to be able to help out like this and was grateful for the opportunity. If we could not be together for yuntif this year at least I could contribute in this way.
Have you ever noticed that you have some mitzvah that not only finds you but seems to follow you around?
Only when Shabbos finally arrived and the food was cooked, table set, baby sleeping peacefully, did those angels remember to come and wish us a gut Shabbos.
Why don't we just sell it? That way not only won't we have the expense of painting it, but we'll have extra cash as well.
By Manuel Sand
I told her not to do anything or say anything and I immediately called Rabbi Gerlitzky, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's shaliach in Tel Aviv and a dear friend of the family. I told him the story.
By dvora
If Hashem wants a person to have something, he will have it, and no one in the world can take away what is coming to to him.
By dvora
The owner searched every which way he could but he could not understand why the company’s finances suddenly took a dive.
By Rina Levy
David was very saddened both at the untimely death of his good friend and also seeing how depressed his widow was.
By T. Gestetner
The driver’s confidence waned a trifle and after a moment or two he admitted that he had in fact stolen the car from the yishuv Maaleh Adumim.
Her husband was one of the first Zaka first aid volunteers to arrive at the scene of the shootings.
I found myself struggling to understand the rapid fire Hebrew spoken all around me but I forced myself to speak the little Hebrew I knew and slowly I became proficient.
On that particular day the aforementioned rav and the rosh yeshiva left the yeshiva for a few hours to research an army base that could possibly offer some opportunities to their boys down the line.
It’s probable that one toddler, imagining that she had been deserted, would just have sat down on the floor and maybe cried until someone reunited her with her loving mother.
Hashem has put me in the right place at the exact time. It was a true miracle.
By dvora
Considering that I am not a youngster, I have to admit that change, especially of the unexpected sort, is most challenging.
It used to be that when our youngest boys were about to go outside and it was cold, I’d sometimes remind them to take a jacket. Now I remind our youngest son, Yisrael Meir, to take pepper spray.
By T. Gestetner
She spoke with a smile on her face, exuding a calm acceptance of her less-than-ideal circumstances.
By Risa Rotman
Lacking the actual Hebrew word for the wanted piece and maybe even the English one, the handyman wasn’t getting what we needed.
We swam in the pool, played ball, barbequed, and played music but one thing that was different was the little store we had always remained closed on Shabbos.
By Chava Dumas
Seeing my distress, a very kind employee named Lori (whose last name I regretfully forgot to ask about) very compassionately offered me the use of a stroller she just “happened to have” in the back room of their office.
Despite being excited about seeing the beautiful twinkling lights of a mostly sleeping city, I was exhausted and kept yawning.
One unexpected bonus of our two-week trip was meeting up with some of our Israeli family.
Rain can happen at any time. It’s a mere coincidence taking place just to send shivers up my spine.
It was a difficult battle. Many were seriously injured and some did not survive, but Tomer came out alive and unharmed.
By Eliana Klein
Sometimes, like those of our ancestors in the desert, our protestations should have instead been cheers and songs of thanksgiving; but we discover this only in retrospect.
By Leah Stein
The MRI showed that our son had sustained a fractured skull and a double break in the arm that he had fallen on, it was truly a miracle. That arm had saved his life!
By Rina Levy
As your family came from France, it is likely that they were transported to Auschwitz and murdered there, he told us.
It was only when he finally touched down on the much-missed holy soil of Eretz Yisrael that everything began to rapidly spiral out of control.
As we raced from store to store I was invigorated but Jo tagged listlessly along. I pretended not to notice and chatted gaily all the while.
By Eli Duban
After a couple of weeks, it became very clear to me that I was not earning anywhere near enough money to pay for Yeshivah.
It was a year of Torah learning, a year of fostering new friendships, a year of encounters with diverse educators and personalities, a year of becoming more attached to the land, and a year of relative innocence.
Paula and her husband did far more than that – they went to visit her and managed to persuade her to allow them to apply for her to live in a Jewish home.
By dvora
As crazy as it sounds, we never met face-to-face until we discovered that on the same Shabbos, she would be visiting her daughter in Monsey while I would be attending my grandson’s bar mitzvah.
Minutes after my son and daughter left for school – it’s a ten-minute walk from our house – my son came running back to the house, all upset.
By dvora
Sounding like a typical Lubavitcher, I told that just by striking the match, she is bringing more light into the world, so what’s the problem?
The Israeli sun was beautiful as it slowly descended in the horizon, but I could not enjoy it as I usually would have.
The utility workers in this area usually do not do these kind of repairs, but being a bitter cold night in December when pipes can freeze he was kind enough to help the home owners.
As early morning phone calls go this was probably one of the least welcome ones to hear five days before our daughter’s wedding.
Now he was putting his faith only in Hashem and that he knew Hashem could help him.
By Naama Klein
The rav found the exchange humorous and happily shared it with my husband, who subsequently told it over to me.
Why didn't I call an ambulance? I do not know. And believe me, I was not trying to be overly pious.
I knew in my heart if I did not take my first step soon all my ambition would fizzle.
By Naama Klein
At this point I am reasonably happy that he returns home eventually and is still semi-coherent (at least some of the time).
This tragedy was in the forefront of my mind as my family and I wended our way, the week before Pesach, from Har Nof, Jerusalem to Sha’ar Yeshuv.
By Ann Goldberg
But, that morning my cold had developed into something far worse and I just knew I wasn’t going to get to the bris.
By Naama Klein
Our first six children had been born in the Holy Land, but ironically every one of them married and set up home in the United States.
By Dena Estrin
One point stood out from those stories: in contrast to the Koran, the great figures of the Torah were not beyond reproach. There was always room to be better.
He was used to my premonitions. So I called my labor coach she said she would bring her car close to where I was staying.
By dvora
One daughter flew in from the UK for a mere 50 hours – quite an amazing feat!
By Phyllis Lit
My mother had a difficult pregnancy. Some doctors said it was a miracle I was born and came out as good as I did.
We were not familiar with the process of wiring money to Israel when I got engaged, so I was just waiting for the money to come by mail.
By dvora
As it turned out, despite recovering sufficiently and hopeful of having more children, I never did.
By dvora
During the past year I especially enjoyed looking at a website of a hotel in Monticello. Living near the beauty and calm of the water really appealed to me.
I remembered the years of bringing up six teenage daughters. Of course they weren’t all teenagers at the same time but sometimes it definitely felt like it.
By Perel Cohen
With no other choice in sight, David continued along his path until he finished high school without having any substantial plans for his future in mind.
By Naama Klein
Our poor daughter well remembers her highly-anticipated bat mitzvah trip with us to Israel, that unfortunately fell far short of her expectations.
By dvora
There are people who come over to help us give the babies a bath. We have all learned to do this in assembly line fashion. We could not do it all alone.
By Ann Goldberg
I happily assured her that I did in fact have no doubt that the change of name had a lot to do with their new status.
The scene was surreal. We could hear the battle raging in Aza, but in the host’s realm there was relaxation, conversation, and the bubbly voice of our grandson.
By Jolie Greiff
I’d been reading a book about back pain which said that the real cause was pent up anger. Was I angry at someone?
By dvora
Baruch Hashem all worked out well and they are doing both fine recuperating now.
By dvora
My daughter was in a state of shock. How could this be? How would she and her husband cope?
Upon receiving the call from Orit, Margolit thought that her daughter had already been informed about the attack and was calling about visiting Tomer.
By 1939 when World War II broke out, Aliyat Ha'noar had brought over five thousand Jewish children and youth out of Europe to Palestine.
I had heard about these cousins a lot through the years. They lived together in Manhattan.
By dvora
After their short rest upstate, catching a few short hours of sleep, the father and son-in-law started the trek home.
By Naama Klein
I hurried downstairs and dialed my husband again. Baruch Hashem this time he answered right away.
By dvora
I explained to him that Hashem does not give a person something to deal with that they cannot handle.
By dvora
I teach our students that nothing happens by chance and certainly that includes a raffle drawing. Hashem is running the world and everything that happens in it.
What happened to Robert Najberg’s mother? I have no clue; I can’t find any information.
Edy turned around and saw that her sister was trapped underneath the trolley that had rolled on top of her.
To not keep Shabbos and not honor her parents seemed too much of a price to pay for a job she didn’t really like.
With nothing pressing on their duty roster, Rabbi Avi was convinced by the boys to try to catch fish at the river nearby.
By Naama Klein
Despite our age difference and the fact that they were newly married and we were expecting our fourth child, the newcomers and us hit it off well.
The significance of the two identical sums, the one he had just lent his friend and the reduced fee for the moving wasn’t lost on Shlomo
He quietly related to the avreich how during the time he was without pulse or heartbeat he had ascended to the Heavens and was met by his deceased relatives.
Sometimes we are inspired by the simple sweet kindness and patience of a total stranger.
By dvora
Blowing 30 times (the minimum amount to fulfill the mitzvah) for every Jewish patient, literally took the wind out of me.
G-d willing more people will realize that prayer is a powerful spiritual drug.
By Chava Dumas
Leah and Benyamin were both so used to being independent that Leah did not consider asking anyone for help.
I said that we could call the baby Natanel Yisrael, but my husband felt that the name would be too long. (I don’t know why he said that because we already had a child with a six-syllable name.)
Shlomo explained that these were non-Jewish people who had risked their lives and the lives of their families, for no reward whatsoever, by hiding and saving Jews during the Holocaust.
Her biggest nightmare revolved around those dreaded three letters that instilled fear and trepidation into even the bravest of men: I R S.
She knew it wasn’t easy or pleasant to stand around asking for money and so many people were far worse off than she was.
By dvora
One must be honest and straight in business dealings and in any interchange involving another person, no matter what his color or creed.
By Naama Klein
So I feel especially blessed that I have experienced both the small world phenomenon and the pre-destined shidduch reality, all in one obviously bashert bit of matchmaking.
By Ann Goldberg
After several sleepless days, the team had been able to speak with the Guamanian and United States funeral homes, the airline, and the widow.
By dvora
Somehow, though I loved being in Israel, I didn’t feel that way at all.
By Naomi Gross
Although Har Hazeitim is traditionally considered one of the holy sites in Judaism, it’s also undeniably a hotbed of violence and vandalism, and consequently one of the most dangerous venues in all of Israel.
There didn’t seem any point in having the diamonds removed and each of us taking one; what would we do with it?
To add to her distress, this close friend has a lifetime history of complications in her relationship with her mother, her only living parent. Thus, she struggles without the benefit of family support.
By Naama Klein
We were fortunate enough to have our brother-in-law, sister-in-law and their children fly out from the east coast and join us for one such summer expedition. And it subsequently turned out to be by far the most memorable of all.
By Chava Dumas
Admittedly, it is much easier to see the potential of a toilet paper roll if one has worked in a nursery school, or as a camp counselor, art teacher or creative stay-at-home Mom.
By dvora
Mommie was distressed because praying for the welfare of her dear family was the foundation of her belief in HaKodesh Boruch Hu, whom she served everyday of her life in innocence and in purity.
By Naama Klein
Although I spontaneously burst out crying that my beloved Tatty was no more, part of me acknowledged that positive development as well.
By dvora
Pinchas told his friend how he had felt that he would need to be with someone he knew to help him and his mother through a very difficult Shabbat. Hashem granted him and his mother this chesed.
By Naama Klein
“One of the drivers is nearby right now, and will pick you up between 9:05 and 9:07!” Very good tidings indeed. Except for the fact that I was then distributing freshly washed laundry while listening to the 9 PM News.
Dani unwrapped the book and was very happy as it was exactly what he wanted.
By Ann Goldberg
Apart from that, the Oneg was a great success with inspiring divrei Torah and singing until late.
By Chava Dumas
We were reintroduced and Leah warmly welcomed me to ask what was in my heart. Her genuine warmth and sweet loving smile overwhelmed me.
July 10, 2026 
