PERSPECTIVES → FAMILY FIRST INBOX Issue 1056 · April 2, 2025

Family First Inbox: Issue 938

“Even if your chocolate cake is the 100th the recipient received this week, they’re received as 100 ways to say, ‘I care about you’”

Family First Inbox: Issue 938

Second Time Lucky [Words Unspoken / Issue 936]

I’m responding to the Words Unspoken where the writer explained why children of divorced parents should be taken more seriously.

A few years ago, a friend of mine mentioned that her husband had a friend who got married, but the marriage was unsuccessful, and they divorced. Eventually, he remarried a girl whose parents were divorced. A while after he remarried, my friend’s husband saw him and asked him how things were going.

The fellow who remarried told him he was so happy. His wife is a delightful person, and they’re very suited to each other. And then he added, “The interesting thing is that my parents never would have considered this shidduch the first time around….”

Chana Zelasko
Ramat Beit Shemesh

Don’t Hold Back [Know This / Issue 936]

I’d like to respond to the woman whose husband is currently sick with cancer. First and foremost, I want to wish your husband a refuah sheleimah b’karov mamesh! What you’re going through is unimaginable, and the fact that most people around you don’t experience nisyonos on this scale makes it all the more difficult and isolating.

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