GREAT READS → LIFETAKES Issue 1075 · August 20, 2025

The Strength of My Thirties 

Where is that elusive koach I was promised as the gift of this decade?

The Strength of My Thirties 

Ben shloshim la’koach, it says in Pirkei Avos. The thirties are the peak of strength. But I wonder, as the years move on and my thirties march closer to my forties, where is that elusive koach I was promised as the gift of this decade?

I look back to my twenties — getting my degree, getting engaged and married, building a career, and learning to be a wife and mother. In my twenties, I had koach. Now? I’m just tired.

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