Pamela lit the Menorah for the first time that Hannukah, a little Menorah that Mrs. Shaffer brought us. And then she continued lighting her candle for the Sabbath every Friday. Without fail, ever...
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this is one of the sadest stories that I have ever read it made me cry a lot. it was a wonderful story with a very sad ending.
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What an extraordinary story, and how amazingly kind of you to share it.
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The candle that illustrated the story was most fitting. One could almost see the flame move. It was like the story as light moved in to banish the darkness.
And there was a shadow of this as the story unfolded till finally, when the sole candle was extinguished, strangely there was still light.
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This is an extremely sad story but what's even more tragic are the large number of so called 'Religious' men and women in our communities that tend to JUDGE the non religious Jews, refusing to communicate or pass on their Jewish education, yiddishkeit, love, care and direction to their less fortunate BROTHERS AND SISTERS that were denied any religious Jewish teachings, predominately as quite a large number of non practicing Jews are from Holocaust survivors whose parents suffered tremendous atrocities during WW11 and made the torturous decision to abandon their faith, not pass it on to their children AS THEIR MOST PRECIOUS inheritance, then as a result, we have very sad lost Jewish souls roaming this lonely earth looking for where they belong! Rabbi's and Rebbitzin's, don't turn these souls away in fear that they may corrupt your very own children, rather EMBRACE THEM as tightly as possibly never let them go as before the coming of Moshiach ALL THE JEWS WILL BE RE-UNITED AS ONE!
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While recognizing the value of this story and its emotional content, I could not help being a bit surprised by your relating of and printing a story about a lesbian relationship.
While Bronia, in her wisdom, could make the call and did make the right call, for one party here was a jewess, I was really uncomfortable with the story being printed here. Especially now that there are states allowing for these false "marriages".
Am I wrong?
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I have also experienced first-hand her tremendous sensitivity and love. I think it's incredible how she managed to see past the "don'ts" to enable the Jewish spark to ignite, under any circumstances.
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beautiful story, insightful as well as a sensitive and wise response on the part of Ms. Schaffer - a story with a very unexpected and chilling ending,.
However, am I missing something here? a same sex "marriage"? Pam and Sister P. Morgan?. and why the mention of Ms. Morgan's inability of "not being able to give up her ".."Chr---t"?
very weird. We need to know this? Somehow the poignancy of this letter lost its appeal with Chabad.org's oversight or complacency by printing this story in all of its detail....it just didn't smell right; a more careful perusal and editing of this letter would have been in order.
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I thought it was obvioius that this was a same-sex couple. I don't see anything wrong with Chabad positng this article on the website.
10-15 Thousand gay, lesbian and transgendered Jews died during Shoa. Must we further discriminate members of our tribe?
Thank you for posting this article.
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