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HOME & FAMILY PREPARING FOR THE FUTUREIdentifying Burn-Out by R' Zvi Zobin Question: What can you advise about young men and boys who feel `burnt-out'? How can they relax and then revive their interest in learning? Some seem to get `mono' after their wedding and variations of `burn-out.' Do you have any ideas?
The Smell of Cholent Aleksandra was a twenty-two-year-old Polish girl who came to clean Sima Berman's large suburban house every Friday. Efficient and a hard worker, she managed to get through her chores quickly. She always left before the time Shabbos started, but on this particularly cold February day, it began to snow right after Aleksandra arrived.
MEMOIRS Jersey City, New Jersey, a bleak factory town. We moved there in 1938 because that's where the parnossa was. Hardly anyone would have chosen to live in this city for any other reason. For six days a week, countless smoke-stacks emitted black smoke, effectively hiding the blue sky. Most of the residents were Polish and Italian immigrants. The city abounded in bars and liquor stores.
Summer Camp: A Growing Experience Shavuos has passed and everybody's attention turns to the upcoming summer months. The children are busy putting on the finishing touches on the long school year with finals and graduation. After those hectic days come to an end, the ten- week summer vacation begins. Most children look forward to the days (and weeks) of no homework, tests, and other classroom assignments with eager anticipation. by Bruchy Laufer Zahava closed the book deliberately and let out a deep satisfied sigh. She had just finished reading a most inspiring tale of great people and wished to emulate them for the perfect marriage.
Just Wait Till Daddy Comes Home... Although there are hundreds of families nowadays where fathers and mothers reverse roles or apportion household duties equally, in many families the traditional roles of the husband going out to work or learn, and the wife assuming the responsibility of mother and homemaker, are still extant. Even if the mother also has a part time or even full time job, it is she who runs the house.
Lag B'Omer Revisited - Some three-year-olds have their first haircut amidst the fanfare of Lag B'Omer. Others don't. Either way, any time, it is a momentous event in a child's -- and mother's -- life.
Guard Your Tongue - Guard Your Life A true story of how studying two halochos a day saved an
entire family.
It was a cold winter night; the sky was overcast with thick
clouds. Rain fell silently, refreshing Hashem's world. The
clock read half past one a.m. We were sitting in a minibus,
our family and few children from our mechutan's
family, twenty people altogether.
BOOK REVIEW
"My greatest desire is to teach others that through the
care and love that a woman puts into her meals, her table
becomes the heart of the home, from which all those around
it derive warmth and pleasure. I gain great satisfaction
from teaching the energetic generation, who are just
starting families, that cooking and serving can bring close
ties among all family members." (Excerpt from "For the Love
of Cooking.")
To the Editor:
Your publishing of an article on the treatment of burns
contained a number of dangerous inaccuracies.
Poet's Corner
Across the open porch four floors high,
Ebony black olives peeping between narrow green leaves,
Distant sounds of playful laughter amidst a teacher's
call,
Blossoming summer fruit adding fragrance to the air,
Constantly occupied with life's daily chores,
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