Yiskah Lundell, at The Blogs

Oct 25, 2022, 12:47 AM

Searching for happiness can often leave you with a stomach ache. You aren't sure if you want the chocolate cake or the banana split -- so you down them both and end up sick. "I should be happy. This is...

Aug 31, 2022, 10:47 AM

Elul: Only forward from here

It's Elul. A time where we are cleaning out our lives, emptying ourselves from the “junk” that we accumulate during the rest of the year. Peeling off the many layers covering our heart, perhaps blocking our true, raw and real feelings...

May 19, 2022, 8:03 AM

Self Esteem at the core of Jewish identity

It's easy to say that we're all B'tselem Elokim (created in the image of G-d) but to feel it and to live it is a whole other story. I feel that so often, the message we're given is to find...

Mar 16, 2022, 9:54 AM

It Doesn’t End Here : Sugar-coating Tanakh

It's Purim-time. Perhaps the most perfect time to pose a question to ourselves. Do we sugar-coat the depth and complicated nature of Tanakh? Do we oversimplify the complex lives and stories of our greats, our heroes and matriarchs/patriarchs? In the spirit of...

Feb 7, 2022, 9:18 AM

The Lonely Man of Faith: The Rav and Mental Health

In the first few pages of R’Soloveitchik’s work, A Lonely Man of Faith, it simply reads -- I am lonely. Yes, one of our greats, was not afraid to admit that he faced loneliness. He knew he wasn’t alone (none of...

Jan 16, 2022, 9:50 AM

A Time To Ask And A Time To Embrace

You, like me, have probably sat around countless Shabbos tables where the conversation started with, "So... were you born Frum? How did you get here?". Often, as the Matzo Ball Soup is being passed around, I anxiously await my turn...

Sep 13, 2021, 12:06 PM

The Importance of Women Learning Talmud Torah

Every so often, I come across articles either strongly supporting or opposing the idea of women studying Talmud-Torah. More often they are emotionally charged rather than sorted out concisely -- but I think we all could relate to that...

Aug 6, 2021, 7:02 AM

Jewish Identity: Fragile, Please Handle with Care

For some time, I have grappled back and forth with this article. ⁣Jewish identity is, rightfully, an extremely sensitive topic. As someone who has personally dealt with the pain (and the beauty of course) of a not so perfectly boxed...

Jul 30, 2021, 11:29 AM

Parshat Eikev & Gratitude

Parshat Eikev gives us a glimpse into a narrative about thankfulness. Here, Moshe reminds the people that Hashem made them go hungry in the desert in order to show them that it is Him who has been and is caring...

Jul 26, 2021, 6:57 AM

One Woman’s Impact on Early Zionism

Early Zionism was more than a nationalist movement. It was a revolution to reunite family scattered all across the globe. To rescue them from the inevitable- assimilation into Western culture, loss of individuality, religion, language and mistreatment from the...

About Me

Yiskah is a Pre-Law student at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women. She has written as a guest contributor on various platforms, including the former Refuat Hanefesh. Yiskah is passionate about women’s learning, mental health and the prevention of extremism in the frum community, and has recently started learning one on one with women who have never formally learned in the Beit Midrash setting before.

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