Where Am I Heading Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS I’d like to call this – Life after corona! However, that would be pure projection. Right now, it’s life during corona. The question is, is that necessarily all bad? Like everything else it depends on 2 giant things: your reality and your perception of reality.…
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Chochmas Nashim: Naso: Elevation Revelation
CHOCHMAT NASHIM: NASO: Elevation Revelation By: Suri Davis I attended my nephew’s virtual graduation from medical school yesterday. One his professors quoted Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the…
Keeping Your Marriage Strong During Quarantine
Keeping Your Marriage Strong during Quarantine by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff 4 practical suggestions on how to best use this time together to find peace with one another. This has been a straining time for many couples. Crisis can bring out the best or worst in people. Living together 24/7, many in small spaces, with emotional and financial…
The Dating Challenge
The Dating Challenge Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS “We need to get married, Us girls and us boys. We can’t just stay home, Plus this family noise! ” “Usually we come and go, As we work and we date. But this is ridiculous, We can’t unsuccessfully zoom date.” You’d think it would be great…
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: GIVE IT A REST
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: GIVE IT A REST By: Suri Davis This week’s Torah portions of Behar Bechukotai discuss resting the land every 7th year, which in Hebrew is called Shmitah. Let’s first discuss a verse in the Ethics of our Fathers Chapter 5 which we read this Shabbos. It is customary to read Ethics of…
De Blah Blah Blah Zio
DE BLAH BLAH BLAH ZIO By: Suri Davis I hope not to offend all of you, it would be nice if I didn’t offend any of you, but we live in a sensitive world these days. THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE WORLD FOR ANTI-SEMITISM, except that G-d thinks that there is. That’s the…
Chochmas Nashim: Emor: What Can I Say?
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: WHAT CAN I SAY? By: Suri Davis Governor Cuomo is ready to wind down the full quarantine in New York. It appears for now that the worst of the virus in New York has passed. I look at the long list of those who we lost in mere weeks, and I don’t…
De Blah Blah Blah Zio
DE BLAH BLAH BLAH ZIO By: Suri Davis I hope not to offend all of you, it would be nice if I didn’t offend any of you, but we live in a sensitive world these days. THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE WORLD FOR ANTI-SEMITISM, except that G-d thinks that there is. That’s the…
The Sudoku Challenge
The Sudoku Challenge Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS Are you familiar with sudoku ? It’s a little numbers game. 3 boxes accross , 3 boxes down. Wait there’s more …. Then 9 little boxes in each of these boxes. Still with me? Therefore, 9 rows of little boxes down, and 9 accross , and…
Chochmas Nashim: My Noisy Table For One
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: MY NOISY SEDER TABLE FOR ONE By: Suri Davis I have not been shy about telling people that my first seder this year would be a table for one. I tried to anticipate what that would mean and how that would feel, and who would speak with whom at the seder. So…