http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=10574 Newest articles written by Elana Mizrahi Copyright 2005, Chabad.org - Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, all rights reserved. http://www.chabad.org/media/images/50/CtRx507451.gif 130 52 http://www.chabad.org Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1007731 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1007731 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? Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=986579 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=986579 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... Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=965888 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=965888 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... Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=947891 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=947891 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... Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=908708 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=908708 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... Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=891890 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=891890 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... Tue, 19 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=848401 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=848401 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... Fri, 1 May 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=796443 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=796443 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... Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=784604 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=784604 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... Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=769154 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=769154 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... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST