Rachel's Story: The Ultimate Mother: Inspiring Jewish Heroines
The Jewish mother is endeared for her qualities of compassion, selflessness and devotion. What is it about our matriarch Rachel that exemplifies even more of these character traits?
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Goldie Plotkin is co-director of Chabad of Markham in Thornhill, Ontario and director of the Torah Tots Pre-School. She was the keynote speaker at the International Convention of Shluchos in 2010.
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Si Chen
ALAMEDA
September 5, 2018
Dear Goldie Plotkin, your message is so helpful. There is only one thing I would like to say : keep your voice steady, less emotion, so I could receive better. Thanks. Reply
For me, to be totally honest, it is the factual information of Rachel's burial that is the most vexsome. She was not a Ruth; it's a bit like a husband proclaiming" I just didn't have a budget" for Rachel's burial plot....
Understanding Rachel's sacrifice is more than all these analogies, i think. What is it to 'shore up your treasures in the Heavens' ... and how far can we go in renouncing the ego ... to arrive in a truly different place spiritually or geographically?