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From Spark To Flame Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
As far back as I can remember, my father, HaRav HaGaon Avraham HaLevi Jungreis, zt”l, would always remind us that in every Yiddishe neshamah there is a holy spark from Sinai that, in an instant, can become an eternal flame.The Yiddishe neshamah can be likened to a computer. If you can’t find that pintele Yid, it’s only because you don’t know how to bring up the program – but you can rest assured the program is there.This truth was brought home to me on a visit to Eretz Yisrael several years ago...
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The Sword In The Tongue Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
There is a terrible ordeal from which many of our people suffer. In the Torah, such an affliction is called onas devarim – verbal abuse. While we are all familiar with the prohibitions regarding lashon hara (gossip), the prohibitions regarding onas devarim are less known. In fact, most people are not even aware of them. There is a Yiddish saying, “Azoi vee es crystal zich, azoi Yiddish zich” – “As the non-Jewish world goes, so goes the Jewish world.” There is no question that the cultural...
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The Intolerable Loudness Of Simcha Music Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
I’ve received so many letters over the years about the intolerably loud music at simchas (joyous occasions). One that sticks in my mind was from a grandmother who expressed concern at the high decibel level of the music at these functions, which she felt could be injurious to people’s hearing, especially infants who are often brought along by their parents. She also expressed annoyance that the loudness of the music prevents people from holding conversations and often forces them to go into the...
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Singles And The Need To Get Beyond ‘Chemistry’ Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
For a number of weeks now I have been discussing the crisis among singles. I hope the columns have provided some clarity and a better understanding of this dilemma. In this concluding column I would like to focus on the big question so many have asked: Since our faith teaches that every person has a soul mate – bashert – designated by Heaven, how is it that so many cannot find their partners?  Searching for your soul mate becomes easier when you have faith. It is written that forty days before...
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The Baggage Weighing Down Our Singles Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
In my last column I explained that making a shidduch has never been easy and that there always have been obstacles. Nevertheless, each period is different, and this week I will focus on our generation.These difficulties apply equally to every segment of the Jewish population, and while Orthodox singles are more insulated from cultural influences, the rippling effects have impacted all of us. So the questions remain: Why can’t singles get married? What went wrong?There are no pat answers. Many...
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Shidduch Problems Are Nothing New Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
For the past couple of weeks in this column we’ve been discussing shudduchim; specifically the challenges singles face in finding their intended mates.My husband, of blessed memory, related to me that prior to the Holocaust his father, the revered sage HaRav HaGaon HaTzaddik Osher Anshil HaLevi Jungreis, zt”l, tried to make a shidduch for his daughter, my husband’s older sister. She was stunningly beautiful, bright, talented, and blessed with exemplary middos. Her chesed was of legendary...
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A Good Heart Above All Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
A Good Heart Above AllI closed last week’s column on shidduchim with the recommendation that singles be more realistic and learn to move on. Too many singles, I noted, can’t acknowledge the fact that while they desire to get married, they insist on living in the past, clinging to visions that are no longer realistic and refusing to move on.This concept of moving on regarding shidduchim has a Torah source. The first person in the Torah commissioned to take on the role of a shadchan was Eliezer,...
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Singles And Self-Defeating Attitudes Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
One of the most vexing dilemmas in the Jewish community today is that of the ever-growing singles population.There are many organizations (including our own Hineni), congregation-sponsored committees, and shidduch clubs where concerned women get together and network to set up shidduchim. Painfully however, the dilemma remains, indicating that more involvement is required.Having said this, I believe it would be worthwhile to examine the other side of the coin and determine whether there are some...
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Speaking From The Heart Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
Several years ago I was seated with some friends in a Jerusalem café. At a table adjacent to ours was a group of chassidic young men. I couldn’t help but overhear their conversation. Suddenly, I heard one of them utter some inappropriate expletives – language that was better suited to the gutter than to yeshiva students. I felt I couldn’t allow this to pass without saying something.My friends couldn’t believe I would actually approach them to voice my protest.“They’ll be resentful,” they warned...
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Powerful ‘Regards’ Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
Every once in a while I receive powerful “regards” from my beloved saintly husband, HaRav Meshulem HaLevi Jungreis, zt”l, as I do from my revered holy father, HaRav HaGaon Avraham HaLevi Jungreis, zt”l, and from my beloved mother, the eishes chayil Rebbetzin Miriam Jungreis, a”h.These “regards” always buoy me. They enter my heart and evoke tears – not tears of sadness but tears of inspiration, of hope, of strength. They lead me back along the road these holy ones blazed for me, as well as for...
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