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 | | |  | Sivan 14, 5772 · June 4, 2012 |  | By Chaya Houpt |  |
|  | | | If you are an abuse survivor, the key to healing is self-awareness and self-discipline. Accept that you possess a "vulnerable brain," just as some people must live with diabetes or heart disease. You must respect your limitations, but must make your mental health your priority...
By Miriam Adahan |  |  | | | A Kabbalistic understanding of candle-lighting
It is in the power of women to ignite the souls of all human beings-to be the catalyst for their emerging out of spiritual dormancy and becoming beautiful, expressive flames that rise upwards toward their Creator.
By Asher Crispe |  | | | | Parshat Behaalotecha
Their job was to bring up the rear and gather up any objects left behind--missing socks, perhaps, or lost children... It's not a very glorious role
By Chaya Shuchat | | | | ALSO THIS WEEK ON THEJEWISHWOMAN.ORG: | | | Parshat Behaalotecha
I would like to be an intellectually honest spiritual seeker, a warm, loving and dynamic wife and mother, a supportive friend; but at the end of the day I look in the mirror and see an annoyed, tired dishrag, and all I want to do is have a cup of coffee and a bar of chocolate...
by Shalvi Weissman | | | | | The following list of high-interest, low-maintenance, affordable outdoor activities (some of which families can do together and others of which kids can conquer on their own) promise to help keep your crew off the couch - and out the door - all summer long...
By Sharon Estroff | | | | | She was so beautiful as she lay there on her back, perfectly still. I cradled her head in my arms as we washed her face. Her skin was smooth and her limbs remarkably flexible . . .
By Sara Esther Crispe | | | | | The pressure of dieting and physical appearance is something that my eight-year-old daughter is already aware of! Occasionally she will pat her round little belly and ask me if I think that she is fat. She is a little chubbier than some of her friends, but certainly nothing unhealthy or out of the ordinary. Should I put her on a diet?
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