“The joy and satisfaction of giving tzedakah is being taken away”
Yonoson Rosenblum’s outstanding column, “The Art of Listening,” should be made mandatory reading at any graduate clinical training program in marital therapy.
In my half-century-plus working with couples, I have found nothing more successful in helping couples improve their marriages than teaching them to communicate more effectively by showing them how to really listen to each other.
Meir Wikler, D.S.W.
Brooklyn, NY
I am writing to clarify the blurb titled “A Sign of the Times” accompanying a photo of Rav Simcha Cook and me in a recent edition of Mishpacha. I am the unnamed talmid in the orange jacket. I appreciate greatly the delicate expression in which you were dan l’chaf zechus, that the sign in the photo “was removed” from the yeshivah dining room and that “perhaps” I intended to return it. Es chata’ai ani mazkir hayom.
I was a senior in the Ner Yisroel mechinah in 1987. The Sindler Dining Hall, where we took our meals (and where floor hockey was played surreptitiously on late Thursday nights), was scheduled for expansion the following summer. The fire marshal’s sign was a fixture, and I expected that someone from the yeshivah would save it as a memento. But the wall on which the sign hung was scheduled for demolition a day or two after the last of our final exams, and the evening after our last exam, the sign was still there. It would surely be buried in the rubble and lost forever. So I climbed on a chair and removed it.
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