Alight. Five stories of salvation
When my cousin Chaya asked if our family would join them for a Shabbos bar mitzvah in Teveria, I didn’t hesitate. “Sure!” I said looking at the calendar. It would be more than a month before my due date. “But there are hospitals near Teveria just in case, right?” I was a little nervous, since my first had been three weeks early, with no warning.
But at the last minute, my husband came down with the flu, and we had to cancel our bar mitzvah attendance. Instead of traveling up north, we were busy preparing simple Shabbos meals for us and our toddler.
On Friday, I was in the living room giving the couch a long stare.
“Mindel, what are you doing?” my husband Naftali called from the kitchen.
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