by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Ask the Rebbetzin
Lessons from the Rebbetzin’s Heart – Parashat Ki TavoPrintable VersionIngathering the Exiles by Performing the Mitzvot of the Land Today I got the following SMS from my downstairs’ neighbor and tenant Yehudit: “Boker tov (good morning) I see there is a lot...
by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Ask the Rebbetzin
Lessons from the Rebbetzin’s Heart – Parashat Ki Tetze Printable VersionSelf-Expression versus Modesty When I first heard about the concept of tzniut (modesty), I didn’t understand it at all. I was a new, 19-year-old girl in the Yeshiva, coming from a more...
by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Life Lessons from the Heart of Rebbetzin
Lessons from the Rebbetzin’s Heart – Parashat ShoftimPrintable VersionMy Emotional Attachment to Fruit-Trees I have a sad, dead nectarine tree in my garden. It is the third nectarine tree to go, and I’m mourning because my trees are in some aspect like my...
by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Life Lessons from the Heart of Rebbetzin
Life Lessons from Rebbetzin’s Heart – Parashat Re’eh Printable VersionThe Rise of Messianic Judaism In Medieval Spain, many Jews hid their Jewishness in order to survive. They concealed their Siddur and Chumash (Pentateuch) behind secular books in their...
by Rebbetzin Chana Bracha | Life Lessons from the Heart of Rebbetzin
Lessons from the Rebbetzin’s Heart – Parashat EkeivPrintable VersionHoly Conversion Candidates I have been running a conversion program for more than 15 years as a subdivision of Midreshet B’erot Bat Ayin. What prompted me to start the conversion program?...
