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Gopher Hunting
The Road to Maternal Gratitude
By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
"Loser! You are wasting your higher education on changing diapers and wiping runny noses! You are squandering your potential on scrubbing dirty dishes and baking macaroni and cheese casserole!" It's at moments like this that I know that no tape or book ...
Women » Motherhood & Childrearing » Joys and Challenges » Gopher Hunting
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An Intimate View on Intimacy
By Manis Friedman
To be intimate means to go into a place that is private, that is sacred, that is set aside. It means one person entering into the private, sacred part of another human being's existence...
Lifecycles » Marriage » Married Life » Marital Harmony » Additional Readings » An Intimate View on Intimacy
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The Grammar of Love
By Yitzchak Ginsburgh
Are you searching for love in the present, or in your past? Are you looking for your soulmate or are you looking for yourself?
Women » Relationships & Marriage » Love & Judaism » The Grammar of Love
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Transforming Waters
By Jessica Klein Levenbrown
My tears mixed with the waters of the Mikvah, enveloping me in a warmth and love I had never experienced before. I knew I had come to the right place, at the right time, for myself, my family, and for G-d.
Women » Acts of Transformation » Mikvah » Transforming Waters
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A Trick of the Eye
By Tzvia Eisenberg
Suddenly I saw a kaleidoscope-like view of all the individual candles, but they were no longer individuals. Each flame had burst into a circle of light, glowing within itself while extending outward...
Women » Acts of Transformation » Candle Lighting » A Trick of the Eye
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A Mother Without a Child
As told to Sara Esther Crispe
I didn't feel any pain, even though there wasn't even enough time to give me much in the way of anesthesia. I could see her, but I hadn't yet heard her...
Magazine » 5766 (2005-2006) » Shabbat Hagadol » A Mother Without a Child
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Riding the Birth Wave
By Sarah Zadok
Giving birth with confidence demands that you commit to labor with the understanding and acceptance that it is not easy – otherwise they would have called it something else
Women » Pregnancy & Birth » Practical » Riding the Birth Wave
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Chavah: Mother of All Life
By Sara Esther Crispe
The first woman, Chava, is called the "mother of all life" for she is the source of joy, experience and creation.
Women » Spirituality & the Feminine » Biblical Women » Chavah: Mother of All Life
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The Month of the Bride
Elul
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
In Song of Songs, which explores the relationship between G-d and Israel through the metaphor of the love between a bride and her groom, we find expressions of both male-initiated and female-initiated love
Women » Spirituality & the Feminine » Time in Thought » The Month of Elul » The Month of the Bride
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