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Fulfillment vs Motherhood: Should Women Pursue Any Kind of Career?
Sometimes, we are tempted to enter a field because it is just the typical, easy route to go, even if the work is not meaningful to us. I looked around at my friends and family, so many talented young women who pursued jobs meaningful to them. Here are three working women who each chose a…
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Gluckel of Hamelin: Writing as a Form of Prayer
If you were to step into your local Jewish bookstore on any given day, you’d be overwhelmed by the sheer amount of published memoirs on the shelves. But a few hundred years ago, that was unheard of. And a published memoir of a woman no less? A true rarity. Gluckel bat Leyb, born in Hamburg,…
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Chayei Sarah: Understanding the Essence of Mearat HaMachpela
I have special memories of davening in Kever Machpela, the holy burial site of our Avot and Imahot during my seminary year. I remember beginning my shemonei esrei and the words “elokei Avraham, elokei Yitzchak v’elokei Yaakov” had never felt more real to me. As we read in the parsha about Sarah’s passing and Avraham’s…
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Talent Building for Better Divine Service
Have you ever compared yourself to someone else? Most of us do it at one point or another. We ask ourselves, why can’t we be as talented, smart, pretty, or fit as someone else? Or we argue, if we had a certain person’s wealth, house, family, job, and so on, our lives would be so…
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Sarah: Beauty According to the Torah
One of the first episodes in the Torah regarding Sarah, the wife of Avraham, introduces us to her in a very interesting way. Avraham is forced by a famine to leave his home and travel to Egypt. Concerned that the Egyptians, taken by her beauty, will want Sarah for their own, Avraham takes serious precautions…
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Vayeira: Sarah, the Hostess Par Excellence
The life of Sarah Imeinu was impressive, incredible and inspiring. She was a spiritual-focused woman in a world which denied Hashem, mentor to the many souls who came physically and spiritually hungry to her tent and miraculously became a mother at age 100. Yet, we do not hear much detail about any of these facets…
