Rabbi Jen Gubitz
I am sitting shmira – / Guarding the memories of the dead / until they are returned / to their families embrace.
I am sitting shmira – / Guarding the memories of the dead / until they are returned / to their families embrace.
“This won’t affect your ability to get pregnant or care for another child. Formula’s just fine. Your kids need you around, healthy. It’s time.”
I developed crushes on men who seemed “exotic,” the irony being that those characters were played by Jews.
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Tapping into my Judaism helped me feel like I was not alone or unworthy of deciding what to do with my own body and my future.
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Neither my classmates’ psalms nor my prayers of supplication had succeeded in bringing peace.