Seeing the Blessing
An Insight into Parshat Lech Lecha
By Elana Mizrahi
I just received our monthly credit card bill. On it was a month's worth of food shopping, as well as my utilities and phone bills. There were no luxuries; everything was a bare necessity. I gasped when I saw the total. How are we going to make it?
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A Day of Joy
Yom Kippur and True Forgiveness
By Elana Mizrahi
Every minute my child is in "time-out" I look at the clock, waiting for the time to be up. To me, two minutes feels like four and five feels like ten...
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The Juggler
Appreciating the Challenges of Motherhood
By Elana Mizrahi
the broken vase on the floor is just that, a broken vase—and the spilled milk is easily cleaned up. Women who watch me ask me how I have such patience. The patience comes with perspective...
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Survivorship
By Elana Mizrahi
I knew very little about their past. I was told bits and pieces of their stories. I knew that my little Bubbie had escaped from death's door and had been a Partisan fighter in the forest...
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The Grass Is Greener
Appreciating What We Have
By Elana Mizrahi
Now breads and rolls aside- this request and the arguments that I hear or see daily about always wanting what the other has, well, they depress me...
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Why? A Shavuot Insight
By Elana Mizrahi
After trial and error I have now discovered that when facing the sticky situations that I find myself in- instead of asking why to a question that has no answer, the best thing to do is just clean up the mess, and move on...
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Mommy, Will You Ever Understand?
When A Child Takes A Different Path
By Elana Mizrahi
If only I understood back then what I'm beginning to understand now, I would have saved myself many fights and arguments. If only I knew that the biggest fear my mother had, or has, is of losing me to some unknown...
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Kidnapped
Being Held Hostage for 25 Days in Mexico City
By Elana Mizrahi
From that moment on David surrendered spiritually- making a deal with G‑d so to speak, "If this is what You want, I accept it, but don't leave me." And He didn't...
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Every Word Counts
Our Marriage Contract and Chanukah
By Elana Mizrahi
I came home and explained to my husband that I just couldn't do it again. I couldn't start with the treatments again, the running around like a madwoman, the ups and downs, the anxiety. I just wanted to be happy with what I had...
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Why Jews Nosh
A Lesson from Parshat Vayeitzei
By Elana Mizrahi
I know what she wants; she wants me to nurse her, she wants me to kiss her and comfort her...It's like her way of "checking in" to make sure that I'm still there and that I love her...
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Originally from Northern California and a Stanford University graduate, Elana Mizrahi now lives in Jerusalem with her husband and children. She also teaches brides and is a writer.
