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Moshe's purse was full of large golden coins. It was worth a small fortune. But it was so heavy! "Oye!" thought Moshe. "This is so heavy -- what a pain to have to carry it home!"

NOSTALGIA
A Trip to Meiron -- in the Year 1888
by Yisca Shimony

In was in the year 5648 (1888) that R' Menachem Mendel Rabin, a newly arrived immigrant who had come with his family from Poland and lived in Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh, decided to participate in the Lag B'Omer celebration in Meiron at the site of the tomb of the great tana R' Shimon Bar Yochai, and witness the kindling celebration.

Treatment of Burns
by R. S.

Every parent is well aware of the risks of fire and warns the children not to go close to the bonfires, however, they are often unaware of the great hazards of flying sparks which can ignite and catch their clothing.

Teaching Love of Torah to Children --
An Essay Leading Up to Mattan Torah
by Tzvia Ehrlich-Klein

Part V

This essay discusses how we can sharp-focus our entire lives around Torah in various ways.

A BOOK REVIEW AND TRANSLATED EXCERPT
by Sheindel Weinbach

Eternity

This is a book review of sorts, besides being a story of Lag B'Omer as seen through the eyes of a new Russian immigrant, Valentina, religious from birth but one generation removed, and ignorant, and feeling her new way into Yiddishkeit, in her new homeland of Eretz Yisroel, as a literal tinokes shenishb'a.

Handwriting -- a Mirror to the Soul
by Rachel Gil

Identifying children's problems through graphology

In Part I we met R' Noam Stern who resides in Bnei Brak and is a teacher in a Talmud Torah. He is a certified graphologist after hours and an expert at deciphering children's handwriting. Handwriting, he claims, is like a CT of the soul, like a polygraph which hints at emotions which cannot be discovered by conventional methods.

Your Medical Questions Answered!
by Joseph B. Leibman, MD

The most lethal infectious disease is an ancient one and is mentioned in the gemora. It kills more than 99 percent of the people infected with it; indeed, there are probably only three documented survivals in the history of man. All had received immediate treatment. Worldwide, 35,000 people still die from this disease. This disease is rabies.

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