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Published: August 4, 2007

Visitor Comments: 22

(22) Greta Rafsky, September 20, 2007 9:52 AM

My own Hashgacha story

This is amazing! Just yesterday I invited a friend to come over to break the fast. I wasn't sure that I really wanted to because her husband is an avowed atheist and I didn't belielve that she really fasted either. But, we're having guests with children the age of my younger child and I wanted someone to be here for my older child, so I invited my friend whose son is friendly with mine. It turned out, that her husband really does fast because a friend of his has invited them for 20 years to break the fast. He said that if he goes to her house, he must fast in order to participate in a break-fast dinner. Well, my friend informed me that they had just received an e-mail from that friend saying that for the first time in 20 years she was not going to host the dinner any more. And here, I was calling to invite them to break the fast!

(21) Anonymous, August 21, 2007 10:30 AM

dear lori-
my family loves all your lori almost-live videos. we are leaving for disneyworld today.and we will be playing the hashgacha pratis game all over disney thanks to you. grandchildren ages 6-5-4-4 thanks so much ..kol hakavod to you lori

(20) cvmay, August 11, 2007 11:31 PM

great video

Love you Lori,

(19) Anonymous, August 11, 2007 1:07 PM

is very good realy i like this

(18) Lara, August 9, 2007 4:12 PM

Screen Play

With all you contribute to my life in the 2 minutes blips each week, I can't wait to see your screenplay!!!!

(17) Dena, August 8, 2007 5:38 AM

Good one

Good one!
I always look forward to these short but powerful podcasts.

(16) AVIVA, August 8, 2007 1:09 AM

DIRECT TO MY HEART

BS"D
This mail of "HASHGACHA PRATY" was talking direct to my heart.
Thank you Hashem to listen to Lori and
give another story to my family that there are not religious (just me Hozeret ve tshuva)
Bs"d with my love to Hashem - will be religious and they see the TRUE.
Love you Lori !!!!!!!!!!!!!
AVIVA - ISRAEL
(I am Mexican)

(15) Gill Hughes-Wilson, August 7, 2007 4:11 PM

Lori Palatik is great

I am a non-jew, but I get the Aish on email every week. I find Lori's articles wonderfully uplifting and am reminded that Christianity stems from Judaism - she is so down to earth and real. Thank you.

(14) Joey, August 7, 2007 12:35 PM

My little story

One day fairly recently, I was thinking, for no particular reason, about a book called "Number the Stars," a novel for children about the Holocaust in Denmark that I had read when I was younger. I'd been slowly working through the book of Psalms, and later that day I just so happened to read Psalm 147, which is the source of the book's title. Since then there have been several times when I happen to think of something, and it winds up showing up in some Bible portion or religious article I read.

God bless.

(13) Neal A, August 7, 2007 10:30 AM

Thanks Lori...I love the messages you send and I can't wait to try this out on my family during our shabbos night dinner...thanks again...Please come to Chicago and give a lecture soon!!!

(12) Yisroel Pollack, August 7, 2007 9:46 AM

True Love

Mrs. Palatnik,

Once again you set us afire in a flurry of emotion and inspiration. But here's the thing. What we find stressed in the Torah is the mandate for us to fear and love Him. So if we're talking about the importance of love in the context of child-rearing, we want to devise strategies for imparting this element. For example, we might draw on the example of parents' love of child and vice versa to impress upon the child the nature of the love due to Hashem. This will set us and our children on the right path. You might think it's ironic that I, who hasn't yet married, should be expostulating on something like this. But I'm always on the look-out for a mate; so great things may yet happen, with Hashem's help. This notwithstanding, it is always such a treat to listen to you.

YP

(11) Catherine Manna, August 5, 2007 4:08 PM

Thanks again and again...

Your absolutly wright! This happens to me too! Last night i could'nt sleep and i was talking to my husband, {who was sleeping} about spirituall things, then this morning, i read it on aish torah portions, i said to my husband, look at this, i cant believe what im reading i said the same thing last night! What does this mean? I think it means "im on the right tract! thanks Lori, and aish, for what ever it is that your doing here and teaching, for i know it is guided by God, obviously. and hope it brings me closer to the truth and understanding about Hashem! Who could ask for anything greater? God bless you for helping me in my quest and spiritual journey, glad your here!!

(10) Shaul, August 2, 2007 6:38 AM

Heaven

This is one of the best and simple statements concerning heaven. G-d bless you for your thoughts!

(9) Shira, August 1, 2007 7:33 AM

Lori, You did it again! You touched my soul. Ashreicha!

(8) Yocheved, July 31, 2007 7:48 PM

so inspiring

Dear Lori,
I LOVE YOU! i love these speeches and i find them so inspiring! may u live to 120 and after 120 may u have a beautiful seat in that theater! thanks a billion!

(7) Rivkah, July 31, 2007 7:34 PM

One of your best

This video gave me a concrete mind-picture of what the "world to come" might feel like & be like. I loved the comments about naming a baby after the departed...Thank you!

(6) esther, July 31, 2007 2:13 PM

go lori!

she is so amazing. she makes everything so clear.

(5) Derek Fisher, July 31, 2007 1:47 PM

Reward in Heaven

I was touched by the video and the meaning behind it all.
I have to say that by doing just one mitzvah here on Earth , just to make someone smile, just to be a friendly ear or just to be there for someone is to be an angel and to be worthy of praise in Heaven. I have always beleived this to be true and try to instill this thought in my day to day life. Sometimes it is hard and it seems that there is no hope but just bt wathcing the video has given me an extra goal to strive for and I have to add that that was the most brilliant message I have heard for quite some time.
Thank you.

(4) Roz Lipsitt, July 31, 2007 1:30 PM

Yasher Kochech!

I concur with Benjamin! Kol hakavod, Lori. This was sooo beautiful and meaningful. You validate what I have believed for a long time. At a wedding or Bar-mitzva you hear people say, "Oh, too bad so & so couldn't live to see this." Well, I have always felt that the spirits of people who have left this world, surround chupahs and other major events...I really think they do "know". May we all perceive the opportunities presented us to do good deeds for the elevation of the souls of our ancestors.

(3) Yisroel Pollack, July 31, 2007 12:54 PM

The Weather

Mrs. Palatnik,

What you say about the world to come is very beautiful and inspiring. It offers a lot of solace for plain people (like me). But what makes you so sure that they don't know what's going on weather-wise down here? The weather, like most everything else, undoubtedly has a spiritual dimension. It impacts on how mitzvos are going to be performed, for example. So what reason is there to suppose that it lies beyond the sensing capacities of the departed who bask in the world to come? I don't pretend to know this myself; it is sheer speculation on my part. But to me it is by no means obvious that it is as you, so thoughtfully and feelingly, suggest. This, anyway, is my two cents. Be this as it may, you are very worth listening to.

Cordial blessings,

YP

(2) Sherria, July 31, 2007 10:59 AM

question

The soul that we may be giving merit to when they are in "Heaven" may be in a new body on Earth....How does this work? How do you reconcile this with our belief in reincarnation?
Also, as an aside, 1)Many of us do not have the benefit of housekeepers,it is spoken of as a given, and 2) not all of us are housekeepers that aren't familiar with terms like "Nachas", many of us are Jewish people and many non-Jews all of different professions. I know this is obvious and you didn't mean it in any negative way, but this is read by many folks of different paths and unthought through comments like that perpetuate negative stereotypes.
Thank you for your usually enlightened and interesting messages.

(1) Benjamin, July 31, 2007 7:47 AM

Another Great Message

Once again Lori is able to capsulate a complicated, seemingly esoteric subject into a seemingly simple, relevant message. I look forward to these messages every week as a friendly "kick in the pants" and always feel better for taking the time and carrying the message with me through the day and thereafter. I also like how the past few weeks' blogs have a common thread so that the weekly messages are interconnected to deliver the Big Picture. Thanks!

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Mrs. Lori Palatnik

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Lori Palatnik is a writer and Jewish educator who has appeared on television and radio, and is the author of "Friday Night and Beyond: The Shabbat Experience Step-By-Step," "Remember My Soul - What to do in Memory of a Loved One," and co-author of "Gossip: 10 Pathways to Eliminate It From Your Life and Transform Your Soul." She is a much sought-after international speaker, having lectured in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Central America, South America, South Africa and Israel, including featured talks at Yale, Brown and Penn. She lives in the Washington D.C. area, with her husband, Rabbi Yaakov Palatnik. Lori is the Founder of The Jewish Women's Renaissance Project, an international initiative that brings over 1,000 women to Israel each year from ten different countries on highly subsidized programs to inspire them with the beauty and wisdom of their heritage. She is the busy mother of five children, ages 24 to 14; and her son, Zev, just finished serving as a sharpshooter in the IDF. Her weekly video blog, "Lori Almost Live" is a popular feature on aish.com, viewed by over 50,000 people each month.

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