“Just one Shabbos,” she told herself, “and this is Shabbos number one”
I knew Mira came from a background of minimal Judaism and that she’d turned her life around and become fully committed to Torah. But until I made my own feeble attempts to implement change, I never realized that changes like the ones Mira made required commitment and clear steps to morph from inspiration into lasting transformation.
Mira grew up in a barely traditional family. They celebrated Passover and ate gefilte fish, but they also ate nonkosher and didn’t talk much about G-d. She always felt connected to Judaism, but didn’t give it much thought until she got divorced and was advised by a friend to make sure she had a get.
