My wife and I are celebrating ten years together. But we chose to push off having kids.
"It was in that moment that I was hit with the realization that this was a man who had never loved anyone."
And then something happened. Something that had never happened on any of those other shidduch dates I had excruciatingly gone on.
It's not seeping into my bones like it used to and I want it back.
That was my life now. Blank. I was diving into the scary unknown and for the first time in my life I was not going to have a say on my future. So I deflated my ego down to 6 words.
Rachel's assignment? To cover the topic, “Why don’t we talk about Gd enough?”
In Vayishlach, Yaakov is given a new name: Israel. We may learn from Yaakov's life journey that God is always with us even during the darkest days. Through crippling and painful darkness, He never abandons Israel.
What use is a spiritual mentor if you're an empty vessel ?
