A flame left unchecked can become a raging inferno, consuming everything in its path. Unless someone stands tall and douses the flames. Four tales of courage
Teenagers. Some love them to pieces — the feistier, the better — while others keep their distance and shudder at the mere mention of the turbulent life stage.
I’m definitely in the former camp, and although my day job is of the answering-phones variety, my real energies are reserved for the Bnos groups and shabbatons I regularly run. Which is how I met Shevi.
Shevi was involved with the rav and rebbetzin who had reached out to me a couple years ago. Up-and-coming experts on teens, this dynamic couple had a gaggle of high school girls at their Shabbos table each week. Many of them were holding onto Yiddishkeit by a delicate thread, which threatened to snap at any moment, and inspiration was needed fast.
“Nothing can do what Shabbos does,” explained the rebbetzin, when she asked if I’d accompany the group on a shabbaton they were arranging.
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