Word Prompt – THREE STOOGES – Ann Koffsky
What did they do so well that their legacy is that when I hear their names… I smile?
Word Prompt – THREE STOOGES – Sari Kopitnikoff
Laughing puts us at ease. It breaks the ice and creates warmth and connection between people. It boosts our physical and mental health. It helps our minds open to learn. And perhaps most fitting in this case, it is a powerful coping tool.
Word Prompt – THREE STOOGES – Cheryl Kupfer
Moe would show his displeasure with his cohorts by slapping their faces, or poking their eyes out. It might have been fake, but we kids didn’t know that.
Word Prompt – THREE STOOGES – Moish Warsawsky
It's an amazing thing that G-d placed in our nature that we have the ability to create a circuit within another human being or audience that can, in turn, uplift ourselves through uplifting others.
Word Prompt – THREE STOOGES – Ariel Rackovsky
The physical gags of the Three Stooges continue to be classics, and the kesubah of Moshe and Chana has stood the test of time. So did the marriage the kesubah solemnized.
Word Prompt – SCHLEP – Sarah Pachter
I look around and see people running around, busying themselves til they drop. No one wants to even stop to think because we are afraid to sit alone in our silence.
Word Prompt – SCHLEP – Jordana Baruchov
What exactly is a schlepper? In that simple scene, he was the one carrying the bags. But the term schlep carries more than just physical weight – it has a certain heaviness to it.
Word Prompt – SCHLEP – Bin Goldman
I've learned to honor my own schlep seasons with self-compassion, when showing up is the highest form of courage I can muster.
Word Prompt – SCHLEP – Avi Ganz
We have a tendency to relate to our ups and downs in terms of closeness and distance: an up brings us closer to our goals and to G-d, and a down does the opposite.
Word Prompt – SCHLEP – Akiva Kra
Some schleps are just plain annoying. Like the 30-minute walk with a group to a friend’s house, only to find no one home. Or schlepping five bags of groceries in the rain because your driver bailed. Brutal.
Word Prompt – DEGEL – Orit Esther Riter
According to the Baal Shem Tov, every individual carries a divine spark and mission – their own inner degel. Healing begins when we reconnect with this inner identity.
Word Prompt – DEGEL – Daniel Finkelman
Only when we feel a secure sense of belonging to something bigger than ourselves can we really have the freedom to discover our individuality.
Word Prompt – DEGEL – Pesha Kletenik
The Israeli flag flew in many places on our recent MDS 8th grade graduation trip to Israel. It flew over the graves of fallen soldiers in the freshest plots on Har Herzl, blew in the wind over the word Yizkor over a pile of cars, burned and shot at the site of the Nova pogrom.
Word Prompt – DEGEL – Simcha Eichenstein
As a member of the New York State Assembly, representing my district and my community, I often feel that I am waving an invisible degel. The manner in which I present myself, the things I say, the culture and traditions I honor, even the clothing I choose – these are all my degel.
Word Prompt – DEGEL – Ariela Davis
At last night’s ceremony at the Kotel in memory of the fallen soldiers, the camera repeatedly flashed to the flag waving in the wind as if it represented everything we were mourning that day. In many ways, it does.
Word Prompt – ARID – Chani Miller
In about thirty seconds, I had reconfigured our life. We would settle by the sea, my husband would become a Masada guide, and I would homeschool at the water’s edge.
Word Prompt – ARID – Ana Mandelbaum
We don’t have to wait until we feel inspired to reach for Hashem. We reach out because we feel dry, empty, arid. That’s the moment of connection – not after the storm, but during the drought.
Word Prompt – ARID – Moish Warsawsky
The medrash in Bamidbar Rabbah tells us that the Torah was given through three mediums: fire, water, and the desert. The commonality between these three is that they are all free and accessible. So too, the Torah costs nothing as it is available to anyone who seeks it.
Word Prompt – ARID – Sharona Halickman
When it comes to Israel we want as much rain as possible in the winter so that our crops will grow and the land will flourish.
Word Prompt – ARID – Stephen M. Flatow
Moisture for crops and vegetation? No problem; we had dew every morning. Water to drink for man and beast? No reliance on oases for us, we had be’erah shel Miriam. And so it went for 40 years.
Word Prompt – LECHEM – Yitzy Spinner
Everything we do in life requires sustenance, and it’s no coincidence that the Torah uses the word lechem to describe not only bread, but all food in general.
Word Prompt – LECHEM – Maayan Zik
Lechem with the Hebrew letters lamed-chet-mem means bread, but can also be a stand in for abundance, livelihood, and sustenance.
Word Prompt – LECHEM – Gershon Schusterman
It has been asked, aren’t there other foods that are tastier and more exciting than bread? Are we not instructed to consume “fat meat and old wine” to celebrate Yom Tov? Doesn’t bread seems so banal? Is that all that married life is, as exciting as bread?
Word Prompt – LECHEM – Asher Yablok
Trust in Hashem’s ability and desire to provide for us and focus our efforts on simply providing avenues for him to do so.
Word Prompt – LECHEM – David Curwin
The connection between war and welding becomes clearer when we consider that, in ancient times, combat involved close physical contact – just as welding fuses elements together.
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