יום רביעי, כ״ב אב תשפ״וWednesday, August 5, 2026
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The power of a Jewish woman to create a Jewish home by setting a certain tone of love, warmth and nurturing, is underestimated. Rebbetzin Gitty Blotner explains that as Jewish women, we make our husbands feel like kings, and our husbands, in turn, treat us like queens. We have the power of bina to read in between the lines of what is left unsaid in order to meet the real needs of our husbands and children. We inherited this spiritual DNA from our Jewish foremothers.
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By Vera Kessler
Yishai and Malkah Fleisher are back and reflect on three months of the October 7th War including the killing of master terrorist Saleh al-Arouri, the political willingness to discuss voluntary emigration for Gaza Arabs, and the religious change - Teshuva - happening in the Land of Israel. Also, Ben Bresky on the amazing story of the Tekhelet blue string commandment. And finally, Table Torah on celebrating Jewish birth on the Torah portion and new book of Shemot.
By Moshe Herman
Rebbetzin Aidy Kuravsky is the Chabad emissary to Pushkino, Russia, which is right outside of Moscow. Rebbetzin Aidy shares inspiring stories of discovering Jewish "diamonds," in the most remote places in Russia and bringing those Jews back to Judaism. Rebbetzin Aidy talks about her experience of having moved from Toronto, Canada to Russia with her husband and 9 children so that she can reach the Jews in that area of the world. This interview is very meaningful and illustrates the message of living life with purpose.
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By Vera Kessler
By Moshe Herman
By Moshe Herman
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Rebbetzin Sara Blau's book, Close To You--Daily Spiritual Meditations Inspired by the Tanya, guides us in connecting to Hashem in a very real way. We have control over our thoughts, and our thoughts lead to our feelings. By THINKING deeply, or meditating, on the holy messages given to us in the Tanya, we can learn to FEEL genuine love for Hashem. The book is available on the following website: https://www.meaningfullife.com/closet...
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By Vera Kessler
By Moshe Herman
Rebbetzin Batya Burd-Oved talks about the experience of witnessing her husband drown, and about the way she used Emunah (faith in Hashem) to overcome her grief and deal with her loss. It's the powerful story of how a 39-year-old widow with several children turns her grief into closeness with G-d.
Through this experience, Rebbetzin Batya learned that everything good and painful is for us to come closer to G-d. It's our own choice to turn toward Him. We are all souls in evolution. Stop fighting what is in your reality and accept it so that you can grow.
Rebbetzin Batya runs an organization called Western Wall Prayers that allows people from all over the world to access the transformative ritual of having a Torah scholar pray for them at the Western Wall for 40 days. To learn more, please visit www.westernwallprayers.org
By Vera Kessler
By Moshe Herman
Rebbetzin Rachel Welfeld gives us a first-hand demonstration on how to heal our inner child. Many of the issues that we are struggling with today are due to traumatic experiences we had when we were younger. Once we learn how to properly heal our inner child, we can deal with our current struggles from a position of calmness and confidence. Rebbetzin Rachel also teaches us the importance of truly being in the moment, and she gives us the tools to help us be present in the current moment of our lives. To get in touch with Rebbetzin Rachel, you can What's App her at 404-819-9444 or email rachelwelfeld@gmail.com
By Vera Kessler
By Moshe Herman
Evonne Marzouk is the author of the Jewish novel The Prophetess. She was also the founder and former Executive Director of a Jewish environmental organization called Canfei Nesharim, and is currently a board member of its successor organization, GrowTorah. She worked with rabbis, scientists, educators and community leaders to create and distribute Torah teachings on the environment. Evonne has worked at the United States Environmental Protection Agency for over 20 years. Evonne also created Heroine's Journal: A Jewish Mystical Journey of Growing into Your Gifts, to empower Jewish women to live their greatest dreams.
Evonne speaks in detail about the process of forgiving someone who has hurt you.
Step 1: be willing to fully feel the pain that the person caused you
Step 2: be willing to acknowledge that you don't know every detail in the situation (you don't know what that person was thinking at the time they hurt you, what you may have needed to learn from being hurt, etc.)
Step 3: make space in your heart (feel compassion) for the imperfect person who hurt you in order to forgive them with your whole heart
When you are trying to forgive someone, it is helpful to process your feelings. One way to do that is to write down your feelings in a journal or notebook. Writing takes the feelings out of your head and body, and puts them on paper.
It is also very important to understand that no one is perfect and that we need to have compassion for the other person's imperfections and humanity.
Ultimately, forgiveness is a choice.
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By Vera Kessler
By Moshe Herman
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Rebbetzin Rochel Goldbaum gives us the key to a happy marriage--delight in your differences. Hashem (G-d) made you and your spouse different from each other for a reason. Rebbetzin Rochel offers practical strategies for how couples can embrace their differences and learn how to love the differences in their spouse, instead of arguing that they are not doing things the way that we do them. With the concrete (and very doable tools that she gives us), you will be able to work together to resolve conflicts, including challenges with kids and money!
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By Vera Kessler
By Moshe Herman
Rebbetzin Ariela Davis offers insightful perspectives on how women can find strength, meaning and resilience to face life's challenges through Torah learning. The words of Torah that she shares are meaningful and relatable. She also talks about how handling life's struggles with strength leads to resilience. It's never too late to change your life, no matter what has happened in the past. There is always strong hope for self-growth and a happy future. Rebbetzin Ariela is currently the principal of Ulpanat Orly in Bet Shemesh, Israel. Ulpanat Orly is a high school for Anglos and recent Olot who are having a challenging time finding their place in the Israeli school system.
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By Vera Kessler
Sunny Levi is a 7th-degree black belt Taekwondo Master. She is also a personal fitness trainer. She teaches martial arts, self-defense, strength training, yoga, and kickboxing to women and children. In addition to teaching others how to defend themselves and be physically fit, Sunny also teaches women to be spiritually fit through her Hitbodedut Spiritual Bootcamp.
Hitbodedut is personal prayer. Through personal prayer, speaking to G-d in our own words, we can form a deep, close and personal connection to Him. This connection turns us into a vessel to receive miracles.
Sunny speaks in details about the three major components of hitbodedut:
1. Gratitude
2. Self-reflection
3. Request
Sunny also speaks about the magnitude of thanking Hashem for the things in your live that are the most difficult. She also talks about how when you pray for someone else who is in a similar situation to yours, G-d will answer your prayer first.
For more information on Sunny Levi's Hitbodedut Spiritual Bootcamp, please email me at atrebbetzins@gmail.com
By Vera Kessler
By Moshe Herman
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Rebbetzin Sarah Korn is the co-director of Chabad House Bowery. She runs a student center for downtown Manhattan universities including New York University (NYU), Baruch, Cooper Union, and Hunter College as their main schools, but they also have attendees from other schools too.
Rebbetzin Sarah shares with us some of the challenges that Jewish students are currently facing on college campuses, and gives us concrete strategies on how they can counter anti-semitism and pro-Palestinian propaganda.
Some important takeaways from our conversation:
--Jews are not vengeful; we are people of justice.
--Those who do acts of injustice must be held responsible for their actions.
If there are professors who speak out against Israel, in favor of Hamas terrorism, they need to be reported (to the school administration and/or to the police.)
--Jewish people are different sparks of one soul (we are all parts of the same soul, in different bodies.) When you shift your consciousness, you shift the consciousness of all the Jewish people. In other words, your thoughts and actions affect others. The things that we think about affect the way we feel. The way we feel affects the way we behave. We have to be a strong force of light to dispel the darkness. Rebbetzin Sarah shares with us exactly how to do this.
Rebbetzin Sarah also tells a story about the power of lighting shabbos candles. Shabbos candles are neshek--weapons; spiritual weapons. At this time, in addition to fighting evil on a physical level, we need to fight it on a spiritual level. Shabbos candles are just one of the many spiritual weapons that we must use in this war.
For a bullet pointed article on Responding to Questions and Disinformation about Israel, please click here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w8ZQ4gdcGGnblEpjoJnQ6TslWll_71BJ/view
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By Vera Kessler
July 31, 2026 
