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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Lessons In Emunah 412 Archived Articles Found in Lessons In Emunah Next 20 Articles > 21) Posted Jun 22 2011 It Doesn't Happen By Chance By Name Withheld Upon Request A number of years ago, after retiring as a teacher, I took a part-time job in a local yeshiva to keep busy. I met an old college buddy teaching there, someone I had not seen in over 45 years. Read Article 22) Posted Jun 15 2011 Gardens By Frumie Maslow Money woes can surface when least expected. That was the case early one spring morning while tending my garden. I enjoyed keeping the garden looking up to par, even though my nails looked as if they had been manicured with pinking shears when I was done. Whenever I went to Home Depot, a bloom-induced trance would envelop me when passing the garden center. I lingered there and filled my cart to overflowing. There was no room in my small garden for all the plants I bought, but that clearly didn't stop me. The plants talked to me, begging me to bring them home. Many people talk to their plants, but very few understand their replies. I did, so in the cart they went. Read Article 23) Posted Jun 07 2011 Judging Favorably By Chana Bashaim I'm a ba'alas teshuvah who didn't find Torah and God until my 30s. Of all the middos that Judaism expects of us, one of the hardest for me is to judge others favorably. My initial reaction is to usually judge negatively in a strong manner. I have been working on this trait for many years with limited success. However, a recent experience gave me a new insight into judging others. Hopefully, with this new approach, I will be able to judge favorably more often and with greater ease. And perhaps this insight will help others as well. Read Article 24) Posted Jun 01 2011 Yerushalayim: A City That Unites Us All By Mordechai Bulua A few months ago my wife and I traveled to Yerushalayim for the bris of our newest grandson, baruch Hashem. On the day we arrived, I was taking off my tefillin in shul after Shacharis when I heard my name called. I turned around and stood face-to- face with a total stranger. He asked me if I recognized him. Upon replying that I did not, he said that he was my roommate in yeshiva - over 30 years ago! He then informed me that he had been thinking about me just a few weeks earlier. He even showed me a cutout copy of a recent letter I had written in The Jewish Press. I was flabbergasted, to say the least. Read Article 25) Posted May 25 2011 The Power Of A Good Deed: Forty-Five Years Later By Alan Magill It was incongruous. He lay in his bed wearing suit pants and a white shirt and tie. It looked like he had places to go and people to see. But he wasn't going anywhere. At least that's what he told the recreation therapist who came to his room at the nursing home to invite him to the Oneg Shabbos program. I'll call him Shmuel. Read Article 26) Posted May 18 2011 Over The Top! By Frumie Maslow Sadly, I needed life-threatening surgery - on erev Yom Tov no less - and my children informed me that they wanted to be with me at the hospital on Yom Tov. I was horrified. Even though they came almost every day, sleeping over for Yom Tov in a donated apartment was a whole different kettle of fish. Were they bored or just ludicrous? Read Article 27) Posted May 11 2011 The Mezuzah That Saved A Soul By Molly Resnick Last week, I heard a truly touching story. Of all the exploits of Lubavitcher shluchim, the following one does not rank in the top tier. But it's a true testament to the movement and the vision of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, that an inspiring story like the following is almost unremarkable - that small miracles have almost become the norm. Read Article 28) Posted May 04 2011 Operation Faith By Shayna Hunt It was a usual erev Shabbos, and I was taking a pie out of the oven when I heard my oldest daughter Naomi let out a blood-curdling scream. She'd been having a stomachache for a few hours, but I had not realized how serious it was until that scream. With Naomi moaning in pain, and my younger girls confused, I quickly grabbed an unbaked tray of challah and loaded everyone into the car. I dropped off the girls and the challah at my friend's house, and sped toward the hospital. Read Article 29) Posted Apr 28 2011 A Telling Dream By Esther Lehman Gross Dreams can be elusive. My friend recently told me that during her Shabbos nap, she awoke suddenly, thinking that I had arrived for a visit. She jumped out of bed, but it was just a dream, and no one was there. Dreams can be mysterious, and sometimes informative. Read Article 30) Posted Apr 28 2011 A Good Deed Never Goes Unrewarded By Name Withheld Upon Request Quite a few years ago, when my second son was studying in yeshiva in Israel, my husband went to visit him in February for his birthday. (I had a six-month-old baby at home and was unable to join him.) It was a very unusual winter in Israel that year. Two days after my husband's arrival, a sudden snow and ice storm hit Yerushalayim. Needless to say, though prepared for every other kind of "disaster," the people of Yerushalayim were almost paralyzed by the ice. Read Article 31) Posted Apr 18 2011 The Sounds Of Music By Debbie Garfinkel Diament I recently learned a new definition for the word music. I discovered its beauty in the graceful movement of hands, in tears falling from eyes filled with joy, and in slowly enunciated words spoken with confidence under the chuppah. Read Article 32) Posted Apr 18 2011 Ways Of Kindness: A Passover Story By Dr. Zahava Szász Stessel It was getting close to Passover in a small Hungarian town in Europe. The baking of matzot at the local flour mill was in full swing, and a young male teenager spent his nights there as a kashrut supervisor. Read Article 33) Posted Apr 13 2011 Stories Of Hashgachah Pratis By Shani S. On one of this past winter's frigid nights, my husband and I were awakened in the middle of the night with the realization that there was no heat whatsoever in our house. Our heating system was not working. My husband called the gas company, but they said that they couldn't do anything in the middle of the night. Read Article 34) Posted Apr 06 2011 Simcha By Alan Magill What is joy? Do we define happiness by society's standards? Is joy packaged in moments presented by Madison Avenue advertising executives? Is it only experienced by people who live the good, rich life? Read Article 35) Posted Mar 30 2011 Family Time By Debbie Garfinkel Diament We recently ate a quiet dinner, waiting for our children to return home. Tzvi came home first. He was exhausted, cold, starving for a hot meal, and possessed of a need to share his day with us. Read Article 36) Posted Mar 23 2011 Twenty-Six Hours In February By Evelyn Haies The learning in Beit Bnei Rachel, The Rachel Tomb Complex, on February 1 included a guest speaker, Steve Rodan, who delivered a memorial lecture to a large group from Efrat in memory of his parents, Holocaust survivors. The topic was "When and How the Mashiach will come." Read Article 37) Posted Mar 16 2011 The Cure Before The Ailment By Perach Moses It was Erev Rosh Chodesh Adar, a regular evening in our home. I had just gotten Shani and Daniel into bed and was sitting on the couch spending time with my 8-year-old, while the baby played on the floor next to us. Everything was right on schedule; my husband was due to arrive home in 10 minutes. In the meantime I was enjoying the relaxed moment. Read Article 38) Posted Mar 09 2011 The Lottery Ticket By Chaya Chava Shulman My friend David is an Australian oleh who lives in Jerusalem with his wife and family. For the past four years, David has worked as a clerk in one of the orange Lotto booths dotting the city. His booth is located among the gray office buildings on Shammai Street in downtown Jerusalem. Read Article 39) Posted Mar 09 2011 A Purim Story By Ed Lion Purim is the time when we celebrate the Jewish people's survival, against all odds, in the ever-present face of the nations' enmity. And we marvel at how the hidden hand of Hashem has watched over His people throughout the centuries. This Purim, the first my family marks without our father, Kurt Lion, who passed away in January, I am reflecting on a story he told us about Purim 1933, when he was a seven-year-old child in Germany. Read Article 40) Posted Mar 02 2011 Miscarriage By Name Withheld Upon Request This is the story of my miscarriage two years ago. At that time, my world revolved around my three children. When I learned that I was expecting twins, I felt that I had been hit by a bolt of lightning. 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