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There’s a well known teaching in Chassidus that says that any descent or challenge that we experience is for the sake of a greater ascent. In Hebrew it is Yerida l’Tzorech Aliyah. It is a teaching that I keep in mind in different areas of my life, including in my closest relationship, marriage. When...

I just recovered from Covid. Ugh. It was every bit as yucky as I imagined it. And I had lots of time to think while bored stiff in quarantine (putting an extrovert in isolation is a recipe for disaster.) I sat and waited. Waiting to be cleared. Waited to resume my life as I knew it. Waited and...

I learnt about it from a marriage counselor friend of mine. It’s a simple tool to use in relationships. Simple, easy and it actually really works. Here is a totally hypothetical situation between a random husband and wife (ok, ok this was me and my marriage. Yesterday): Hubby walks in from a long...