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Timely Stories - Y.Tilles — stories — Beshalach 5784

Выпуск: Timely Stories - Y.Tilles — stories — Beshalach 5784. Темы: family_education. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה. I have just returned from this special quick trip to Miami that I will never forget, where I got to hold the miracle baby as he was circumcised and finally got his Jewish name—“Chaim Mordechai.” [May he live and be well in a strong Jewish home, and give much joy to his parents and extended family and to all who will know him.] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Source: Excerpted and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles from ColLive.com (September 20, 2022 – 24 Elul 5782), as is the photo. the "TillesTells Saturday Night Stories” WhatsApp group Divinely Arranged Synchronicity A week before Passover in 2022, I [Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz] got a call from a rabbi in Miami asking me to hurry to Boston’s Children’s Hospital to pray for a newborn baby scheduled for high-risk surgery. Biographical notes: Rabbi Moshe (“Mayshe”) ben Shlomo Schwartz is the director of the Chabad Chai Center in Brookline, Massachusetts; founder of YJP Boston, the largest organization of Jewish young adults in Boston; and founder of Chai Hospitality, a volunteer-based group aiding hospital patients. In the 1980’s the widowed ‘Schwartzie’ married Olivia, and in the same decade they opened Chai Center, independent of Chabad, to give full expression to his creative--and wild-- ideas for adult education for “every Jew that moves.” Over the years he had a life- changing effect on thousands of Jews. On one of the porches at Ascent Institute in Safed, she and this rabbi discussed the idea of “synchronicity,”1 how bashert (‘destiny’) works, why God chooses the intricate path we traverse in life and more. For reasons above my pay grade, I knew I had merited this connection and the privilege of being there for this family as my father had been there for Tiffany. I wasn’t sure who I was looking for and all I could see were tiny babies with wires attached to all parts of their bodies as machines beeped and lights blinked on and off. My father had been the scholar-in-residence at the Ascent Institute in Safed for 20 summers and the discussions she was describing were very familiar. When she told them she wasn’t Jewish but her maternal grandmother was, they ridiculed her, told her that she was Jewish and asked her to leave. 1 A secular term for ‘not a coincid

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Timely Stories - Y.Tilles

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26 января 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education