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  5. For our Jewish friends

    in Abrazo's Chapel Potluck

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    I received this recently from the URJ (Union for Reform Judaism) (I get weekly

    emails from them on various topics). I thought this midrash was relevant for all PIW!

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    A story about emunah, confidence, trust, is told about the Chasid (Orthodox Jew)

    who sought advice from his Rebbe because he and his wife were childless:

    The Rebbe counseled the Chasid to go home and pray daily and, within a

    year, a baby would be born. The Chasid did so for a year-then two

    years, then three, and still no baby. One day the Chasid stopped at an

    inn. He and the Jewish innkeeper began chatting and very soon the

    innkeeper confided his sorrow that he and his wife had no children. "My

    Rebbe assured me that I would have a child," said the Chasid. "Go to

    see him." The innkeeper went and received the same advice as the

    Chasid. The next morning, he prayed; then he went to buy a crib.

    A year later, the Chasid revisited the inn and was delighted to see a

    baby lying in the crib. But he was also troubled. He returned to his

    Rebbe, complaining: "You gave him the same advice you gave me, yet he

    has a child and I have none."

    "Ah," replied the Rebbe, "but he went out and bought a crib!"

    I love this story! :D

  11. Suggested reading

    in Looking to Adopt

    Posted

    Has anyone read Without a Map by Meredith Hall...I just ordered it from Amazon.

    This is the synopsis on Amazon site...

    From Publishers Weekly

    It was 1965 when Hall was expelled from her New Hampshire high school, shunned by all her friends, made to leave her mother's home, and kept hidden from sight in her father's house—all because she was a sexually naïve 16-year-old, pregnant by a college boy who wasn't all that interested in her anyway. And in this memoir, chapters of which have been published in magazines, Hall narrates this bittersweet tale of loss. After childbirth her baby was put up for adoption so fast, she never had even a glimpse of him. She finished high school at a nearby boarding school, then soon wandered to Europe and eventually found herself just walking, alone, from country to country. Somewhere in the Middle East she scraped bottom and repatriated herself. She accumulated another lover and had two children, before her first son, the one she was forced to abandon, made contact. Making peace with him was deeply healing. This painful memoir builds to a quiet resolution, as Hall comes to grips with her own aging, the complexities of forgiveness and the continuity of life.

    I'll let you know what I think after I get it and read it! The customer reviews on Amazon were all favorable.

    That sounds powerful!

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