http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=13732 Newest articles written by Bronya Shaffer 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 Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=949967 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=949967 They have a son, they told us, and he's going out with non-Jewish girls. They're terrified he'll marry out. Have we any solutions? Yup, just like that, standing in front of the Bonsai exhibit, in fifty words or less they sought the solution to keeping their son within the nationhood of Jews. Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=943007 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=943007 Question: I had a miscarriage a few days ago. I am still in shock, I never expected it to happen.... Response: I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of your unborn child. There is little in life that is as painful. I wish I had an answer for you. The fact is, we can never answer for G‑d's actions. But...even in our anguish, we can answer for our own. We don't know G‑d's mind, but we can know our own. And that means that in a situation of grief, we have the ability to create a perspective. As difficult as it is. Every single soul has a purpose. Every single soul matters. It has meaning. For most of us, as we mature, develop, we strive constantly to find meaning for our own life. And our children,...for them, too, we provide an atmosphere - in education, in our very living example - so that each individual finds meaning in her/his life. And then there is the child who hadn't the chance to do so. This soul, too, has meaning. We are not the ones to know the meaning of each soul, but we know the Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=856094 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=856094 It's clear that this is the swearing-in ceremony concluding basic training for these boys. I was across the ocean when my own son received his beret and Bible; I can't bring myself to leave now. Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=841670 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=841670 She speaks strong words, "control," "power," and yet when she speaks of her husband there's no sense of a man who is controlling or unrelenting. Something is there that frightens her, but it's not, I feel, this man. Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=815487 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=815487 I have become more ritually observant and my wife is not. I understand that this is not what she "signed up for." My question is how to get past my daily frustration especially when it comes to our being role models for our three daughters. Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=834053 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=834053 "I had a bad feeling," he tells me, "I saw in their eyes the sudden realization: this is real. This is thighs shattered, limbs detached...this is war." Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=815501 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=815501 Precious as Jewish education is, they'd just enrolled their children in the local public school. The cost was just too great, and in the economic crunch, sacrifices had to be made. Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=826554 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=826554 Here I was, rows and rows of soldiers before me, and I found myself in front of one, looking into his eyes, the words from my heart. "Thank you." "For what?" he asks. I hesitate for a moment... "For the uniform you wear, thank you." Sun, 8 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=795460 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=795460 I know I have to be happy with my husband as he is, but I always feel that I want him to learn more, be more religious, grow in his spirituality, etc. How can I change my attitude? Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=795436 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=795436 Shaya and I feel we're really suited for each other, but his children are very unhappy about his getting married. His teenage daughter is especially angry. She won't even talk to me, and told her father that if I move into the house, she's moving out. Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST