My sympathetic nervous system stands on the edge of a skyscraper.Toes tucked over the edge, looking around there is no way down. So I keep standing. My legs hurt and the wind is cold and…
“Just Release Your Anger”
Today I went to a holistic healer. My objectives were to get help with my eating (disorder), and to get help navigating this hopelessness I’ve been experiencing. She has this way of communicating with my…
Dear Devorah
(Name was changed to conceal the subject’s identity) My Dear Devorah, I befriended you when you moved to the community when no one else would. Seeing a single mother not get shabbos invites brought back…
What Do You Do
What do you do when the pain is too much? What do you do when you’re so pure and good and beautiful and you want to murder your parents? What do you do when all…
An Adult Who Became Chabad
Grew up modern orthodox Never felt the soul of Judaism Until he gave what he had to others Which was his tefillin Which his great uncle Gave him not too long ago When he reached…
Pearls Of Being A Wife
Racing after love she went Racing after his looks she married Until he promised her he would quit the hard drugs After he got simcha She didn’t think that would fit in her Israeli budget…
The Revolving Last Name
A non-Jew he was, In Alabama He complained about racial injustice And the plights of the so called innocent Never once questioned his paycheck until he attended Harvard Law In the Zuckerberg Days He was…
