Who doesn't have challenges?
Published: Sunday, October 18, 2009
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About the Author
Lori Palatnik
Lori Palatnik is an author and Jewish educator who has appeared on television and radio and has lectured on five continents, illuminating traditional practices and life-styles for our contemporary world. She and her husband, Rabbi Yaakov Palatnik, live in Washington, DC, where she is the Executive Director of The Jewish Women's Renaissance Project of Aish DC.
Lori is the author of "Friday Night and Beyond—The Shabbat Experience Step-by-Step"; "Remember My Soul", which explains the Jewish concepts of soul and the afterlife and a guide to anyone who has ever lost a loved one; and "Gossip—Ten Pathways to Eliminate It From Your Life and Transform Your Soul", featured on "Dr. Laura" and FoxNews.com.
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(12) Margarita Cohen , October 27, 2009
This is soooo true!!!
Thanks so much for your share. Sometimes we need someone to "move the carpet underneath us" so we open iur eyes, And this time you really touched my heart to see how important it is to acknowledge how fortunate we are... together with our challenges,
(11) Phyllis , October 23, 2009
thanks
thanks Lori, for once again helping me put things in perspecive... I will try to spend less time agonizing over my "challenges" and more time appreciating the countless blessings I have been given..
(10) Jong , October 23, 2009
Touching
Thanks Lori. You made me moved. This is the very reinforcement that I needed at the moment. It keeps my challenges in perspective giving me calmness and strength to overcome.
(9) Meira , October 22, 2009
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We all know that Almighty doesn't give us a test we cannot pass, but why He gives us the same test again and again? At different time, in different locations, with different people, with different scenes and background and if you think deeply into the problem it reveals the same test. Are we assigned for them from the birth? He gives Abraham only ten tests. Why He gives us ten time ten?
(8) SusanE , October 22, 2009
If you Live Long Enough You go Through Challenges.
You are right Lori, everyone has challenges. I'm certainly not courageous, or brave. I've also lived long enough to go through several 'bumps' in the road of life. If we don't die during a challenge, people think we handled it well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'd like to say " NO we didn't handle it well!! Those were rotten times and we had no choice. " My friends have been through as much and more than I've lived through. Challenges build character, tragedy rips and is life wreching. One friend widowed 3 times and lost a son, another widowed twice, losing both adult sons to death. One independent hard working friend has Parkinsons, four friends have died young from cancer, one good and wonderful woman friend lost from ALS (Lou Gherigs) and the list goes on, through floods, divorce, alcoholism, fire, poverty. All have been through horrible challenges. We women who lived through aren't brave either. And we do have fun, we laugh, dance, go on road trips, throw parties!! Anyone else would think we have unchallenged lives. (ahem) It's just sometimes the scars don't show. Making sense from tragedy keeps people balanced. Thank you to Aish.com for giving reason and purpose to death and chaos..