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Nov 19, 2025, 8:16 AM

TOLDOS generations. Yitzchak comes across pits in the desert that were filled up since Avraham dug them out. He embarked on an endeavor to dig new pits for water. However upon the first pit, shepherds who let their animals...

Aug 15, 2025, 12:26 PM

And I Will Love You and Bless You!

EIKEV עקב תשמעון Because you will listen! Moshe tells Bnei Yisroel, If you listen and keep the words of the Torah, HaShem will bless you with delicious crops, chubby cattle, and an abundance of wine to celebrate your many...

Aug 10, 2025, 6:07 AM

Give It Up

VA’ESCHANAN. And I begged. Moshe tells Bnei Yisroel, I davened 515 times to enter the Land and HaShem still said No. Instead HaShem told me to go up a mountain and see what I wanted, the land of Eretz...

Jul 28, 2025, 12:30 AM

Loving for Free

Last week, I mentioned the idea of “hating for free,” of hating people for no real reason. As a teacher and a mother, I’ve learned that it’s important to instruct how to do something and to veer away from...

Jul 25, 2025, 11:44 PM

Our Father, Our Therapist

In every month of the Hebrew calendar, Gd takes on a different form. He is all-knowing, all-present, and can so to say assume every position needed in a person’s life. What I mean by this is that He can...

Jul 23, 2025, 9:17 AM

I Hate Him For What?

A lot of cliches are used in speeches for the Three Weeks: Sina’as Chinam, Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, all the sins that led to the destruction of the Temples, and our need for achdus. Sometimes repeating topics without that...

Jul 10, 2025, 9:49 PM

אשרי העם שככה לו

This week, the king of Mo’av, Balak hires Balaam to curse Israel. But every curse he attempts, it comes out as a blessing. Separately, when we eat something that doesn’t grow from the ground, we make the bracha שהכל נהיה...

Jun 15, 2025, 11:57 PM

Of 70 Men

Baruch HaShem, my husband Chaim and I just welcomed our newborn son to our family. He’s named after Chaim’s father Kalman, who was a great man and whom I’ve written about in an earlier article. And we added on...

May 19, 2025, 5:34 AM

For Being a Jewish Mother

I read Israeli news a lot, so unfortunately I’m a bit desensitized like most people to crimes and tragedy. My husband who grew up in Israel in the 90’s and early 2000’s (during the time of the Intifadas and...

May 12, 2025, 6:57 AM

Be Wholesome

My husband recently went to a Melava Malka hosted by Oorah for their TorahMates program. An organization which partners observant Jews to learn Torah with other Jews who are non-observant but on their way, Oorah has a catchphrase saying...

About Me

Este Abramowitz is a Yeshiva English teacher and has a Master of Arts in Jewish History from Touro Graduate School of Jewish Studies. She lives in Lakewood, NJ with her husband and children.