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Elul, Dorian & Donald
Before I found my way into this covenant of service, I pondered if I was chosen for the task. I was deeply fearful of being rejected for the conscious connection I knew to be true with God. Covenants require a lot of development from within. God will require us to be unwaveringly true to ourselves. I took my […]
Remembering The Dearly Departed
Remembering the dearly departed is a significant tradition amongst Jews. It’s called Yahrzeit and is a Yiddish word meaning anniversary of a death. Traditionally the anniversary falls on the Hebrew date, not the Gregorian date. To commemorate the Yahrzeit, mourners light a Yahrzeit candle, which burns for 24 hours. They say Kaddish prayer and hopefully […]
The Power of the Soul: Lessons on Grief, Recovery and What Comes Next
The Power of the Soul: Lessons on Grief, Recovery and What Comes Next Grief is a powerful emotion that touches us all at some point in our lives, but very few of us have the tools to process these feelings. As a grief counselor and life coach, as well as through my personal experiences with […]
From The Narrow Places
From the Narrow Places From the narrow places is an expression most widely used during the most distressful time in the Hebrew calendar. This period of time known as “Beit hametzarim”, which means between the days of distress. It is felt as a gradual increase of mourning customs and rituals which completes on the saddest […]
3 POWERFUL LESSONS ABOUT GRIEF AND RECOVERY.
Get these 3 powerful lessons about grief and recovery now. A few months ago I was interviewed by the very dynamic Margaret Manning, who is the global women’s leader of Sixty and Me Her growing online community has 50,000+ women learning how to better their life after sixty. She’s now building her latest site, LifeAfterDeath.com and […]
Three ways to undo what bothers you about Interfaith, LGBTQ & weird weddings
Did you ever get an invitation to a friends wedding and feel bothered by it? Was it because the couple was going interfaith or are they LGBTQ or even worse, too weird for words? I’ve discovered three ways to un-bother you about other people’s love choices. This post is being written because I get calls […]
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5 ways a bride can dress her best on her big day
Every so often my mother and I go through her memory albums and books. Whenever I take out her wedding album, she gets very upset. My parents were happily married for 64 ½ years until my father passed in 2015. According to her, the wedding album didn’t capture their first moments as husband and wife very well […]
Ten Bodies, Ten Years, Ten Sephirot
Ten years ago I moved on from the home I/we raised my/our two children in. Just as the kids went to college, I set out on a journey to find myself and to reclaim my joy. I had my Ordination, with which I reclaimed my devotion to my faith, however wasn’t sure how the world […]
Remembering Michaela Levit, z’l, an IDF Volunteer
Today I woke up, triggered by learning of the death of Michaela Levit, z”l. Today I woke up. Today Michaela Levit, a passionate young american woman from South Florida will not wake up today. Today she is being buried six feet under the ground as two days ago she died at the age of 20. […]
Death Café Via Zoom With Melinda
PLEASE JOIN US! Death Café Via Zoom With Melinda 7-7:45pm, July 18th, 2018 on Zoom Meetings Every one is going to die, nobody gets out of it! Our identities are changed when we talk about death. Generally speaking, people are death phobic and this event aims to release the phobia with the ultimate creation […]
Six Ways to Prevent Grief
Grief is an internal process, which results from the pain of loss. Believe it or not, you can begin the process of grief and prepare yourself for the inevitable. Why would anyone want to prepare for grief? Well, the pain of grief can be very intense and difficult to deal with. If you’ve lost a […]
Death of the body is going to happen
“Death is of the body is going to happen. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but it will happen.” What can we do today to be better prepared for our inevitable end? To begin with, we can start having open and honest conversations that reflect our feelings about death, the afterlife.. Many family members feel the need […]