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HOME & FAMILY On Wigs and Wings...by Pessy Miller The recent finds should hardly surprise us as we ourselves have made an avoda zora out of our sheitlach. We worship the absolute, flawless, ultimate look, and we sacrifice to that end nearly all that we have.
Righteous Women
It came as quite a surprise and immediately became the
subject of conversation -- wigs made from hair used for idol
worship. Very quickly, it moved from a topic of conversation
to a subject of concern. If it were verified and the rabbonim
said that it was forbidden to sell, buy or wear such
sheitels, in addition to being a very immediate
subject of interest, it would cause a considerable loss of
money for tens of thousands of women.
Blended Families
"Where will I sleep tonight? Who will make my sandwich for
tomorrow? How can I call her Ima? Why are we different?"
Boys Will Be Boys
When I was younger, I used to love playing wth dolls,
pretending they were my babies. I would dress them, feed
them, rock them and sing them to sleep and then wake them up
ever so gently to start the whole process over again. Of
course, they were always girl babies. In my fantasies of
mommyhood I always had sweet, tidy little girls for
children.
The Mitzva Chain Bracha sighed as she struggled to balance her books as she and her friend Leah walked home from school. Ninth grade had been overwhelming them since its beginning two months ago and as they walked through the crisp autumn air, their homework weighed as heavily on their minds as their books did on their shoulders. "So," Bracha said, shifting the weight of her books yet again, "have you thought of an idea for your chessed report?"
Memoirs In 1923, our family left Russia in the middle of a snowstorm. "We are on our way to the ocean," said my father. "There is a big boat there that will take us to America. But first, we will spend a few days in a nice, warm room in a place called a hotel."
Trying to Locate Gerstenkorn Family
To The Editor:
I am trying to locate my late father's family.
My father was born in Mariampole, Lithuania. His name was
Dovid Gerstenkorn (Dovidos Gerstenkernas). Short inspirational pieces by Avrohom Tzvi Schwartz, Kiryat Sefer, author of A Handful of Light, Hearts on Fire and other works on Mussar and Hashkofa.
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