Disability

This week I discovered that my teacher was correct. It is indeed true that the disabled have greater merit than the rest of us...

Chaim was born 13 years ago, a healthy child to healthy parents. Then one day, out of the blue, Chaim contracted a "virus" (funny, how when they don't know what it is, they call it a "virus"...)

Back in the 1970's, long before such terminology was popularized, the Rebbe advocated rejecting negative terms such as "handicapped" or "disabled" in favor of "special" and "excellent"

Sometimes the vacuum itself is the force that draws more, as in a syringe. The Rebbe’s message to his Chassidim on Simchat Torah of 1977, a day after he suffered a heart attack and was unable, for the first time in the years of his leadership, to join ...

There was an undercurrent of raw emotion in the large room. Entranced, I watched the circle of dancers and the smiling onlookers who clapped along

It was back to basics. Actually, it was back to much less than basics. It was back to virtually nothing...

If life has a purpose, what is the purpose of such a short and sad life?

I remember looking at the doctor and thinking: "You are not G‑d. That is your opinion, but anything can happen..."

All that was left of Matt's beautiful bride was a medicated shell of a human being whose brain had short circuited and whose soul had somehow disconnected...

As his 13th birthday loomed closer, my husband and I began to discuss what we should do. At first we thought nothing at all. How could we ‘celebrate’ a ‘Bar Mitzvah’ that wasn’t? But then we realized that there was much that we did need to celebrate.