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My grandfather had two brothers, and my grandmother had two sisters.
Two of the brothers married two of the sisters. I think genetically that makes the cousins like siblings…
One brother and one sister never married (anyone, never mind each other). The unmarried sister is 93? and has outlived them all.
and I’m Joseph!
pba: maybe it’s time to start your own blog?
I really appreciate all the responses here!
I think it’s a bit like going from 8th grade to high school. We were comfortable in our community, knew where we stood, but were at a point where it was time to move on. We found ourselves in a good place to grow, but still unsettled and disoriented.
I went through a “giving it all up” phase but have slowly teased out where I draw the line on artsy things. I just keep reminding myself, I do what I do for Hashem, and for my kids’ chinuch. That we can give our children the Torah education we were not privileged to have is a huge reward in itself.
Giving money can be “giving up” when you’re giving tzedakah instead of buying a new blinking, beeping tchotchke. “Giving up” is a positive thing here.
arwsf – beautiful.
I forgot about the pictures I threw away. oy… but I do still have Curious George in Hebrew!
Wouldn’t you need 7 to have six degrees of separation?
I’ve used ancestry dot com. I wonder if that might be run by LDS… but they have access to an incredible amount of info going back hundreds of years. U.S. birth, death, marriage records, city directories, census records, Social Security, military… and they are increasing their overseas records more and more.
Perhaps her death will wake up even one Jewish fan of hers to do tshuva?…
Relationships with family*
Relationships with friends (Jewish, non-Jewish, secular)
Some less-than-desirable middos (that’s an ongoing process)
Caring what people with bad middos think (a looooong ongoing process)
An attitude that needed giving up (part of the processes above)
Caring what my hair looks like (mostly a relief)
Shorts (don’t miss them)
Participating in semi-professional performing groups (that I do miss)
Non-kosher types of entertainment
Nice cars, house, picket fence
Other relationships/things dear to me that I can’t list because there are probably people here who can already guess who I am
*yes, we tried to be conciliatory, in many ways for many years. Finally for the sake of our shalom bayis and the chinuch of our children, we cut our losses. We keep contact to a minimum now.
yeshivish mold? does that need a hechsher?
I’m thinking some extra trays of ice cubes…
Hello from the heat bubble!
rut roh. Does this mean I need a new username?
first thought: a lot!
I wish I knew Hebrew like some people know Yiddish!
For the last week I’ve sat on the edge of my 8 year old son’s bed late at night, watching him sleep and thanking Hashem for letting me be his mother one more day.
In the morning I wake up groggy but grateful to have my little boy another day, and then I take him to his camp, in a yeshiva, and pray to Hashem that he is safe, well cared for, and happy.
Every afternoon I pick him up, relieved to have him back safe. Last night we told him again how grateful we are to Hashem to have been blessed with our little mentch. He’s starting to look embarrassed when we say this. We tell him we’re grateful not just for him, but for the whole family. He still doesn’t know why we’re saying this, and squirms away.
I don’t want to take away his innocence. I also don’t want someone taking it away from him.
Please, Hashem, give me the strength to say what I don’t want to say, but need to say, in order for him to protect himself when I can’t be there for him.
Please, Hashem, let me always be there for him when he needs me to be…
Are you talking about a real French-style baguette? Or what’s called a hoagie-grinder-sub depending on where you live?
So why don’t more women whose husbands won’t give them a get burn his food?
Mazel tov! I hope your article gives much strength to those who need a refuah… IMHO you are doing a great service by sharing your story. May Hashem bless you with continued good health and mazel.
P.S. I hope you’re being published under a pseudonym… and I hope it’s not bombmaniac, LOL!
How about a Joseph Room? All Josephs, all the time.
“like”—> “agree”/”disagree”
but then we’ll have lobbying for
“LOL”
“Mamish the most meshugganeh thing I’ve ever heard”
“Mazel tov!”
“MY Rav shlita would NEVER pasken that way”
“Mods, please delete this thead IMMEDIATELY!!”
“Go to the Cocoa Room. Go straight to the Cocoa Room. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200”
etc.
Not necessary. All they have to do is put him in with the general population right before the guards go to lunch. Bubba who’s already in for 245 more years has nothing to lose.
Create a Cocoa Room. (I forget whose idea this is, but I like it)
Amein, amein, amein…
Heartbroken…
We have no choice but to tell the horrible truth. If we don’t, they’ll hear it at camp. Minus the details of course.
May Hashem avenge the tragic death of this pure neshama!!
Left-of-center frum or left-of-center chareidi, and does that mean right-of-MO?
I can’t get in either.
Wish I could help. Good for you for trying. I can’t imagine wanting to take math…
If you’re listening to opera at home that’s one thing, but if you look into the story lines, you’ll find that live opera can be a big problem.
That’s great. I’m so glad this has worked out for you. Looking forward to reading it!
Where are your dangling prepositions at?
“hey the mods deleted something i wrote
Mazal Tov!! Kiddush!! Kiddush!!”
Please prepare divrei CR based on your deleted post for the occasion.
Ours is decorated in Middle American Scratch & Dent, with a couple anonymously donated baseball bat marks, thrown on gratis.
What about passing them on to kids or grandkids?
First of all, welcome back, WIY.
“You may not want to hear this but one of the reasons of marriage is to make a mentch out of the guy.”
Isn’t that the job of the parents?
Does that mean I can be Rebbetzin?
Adorable, did you think that Mod-80 was being sarcastic?
I didn’t…
Hooray! One less thread I brought grinding to a halt!
(Someone posting something after this, please.)
Why not? Shemoneh Esrei is 19.
Yeah, it’s the Hashem Show. Starring us.
Aries: the day my IL’s showed up with a convertible I davened like you wouldn’t believe. I told my husband, never again…
Sternberg’s is July 10.
Mods… please… make it stop…
Is anyone else besides me sick of this Joseph shtick yet?
Mazel tov!! So happy for you! May you be zoche to build a BNB!