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This is Shabbos? Adi whispered, gazing at the moonlit scene in wonder.

Of course, Adi knew what Shabbos was; she'd been keeping Shabbossim for more than a year before she'd decided to study in Yerusholayim. She liked the regular routine of the day, the familiar foods and special songs.

Speaking My Mind
by Rosally Saltsman

Sfiras Ha'omer -- an exercise in remembering. And even before we reach the finish line, there are always the six Constant Remembrances to bear in mind, which constitute Six Positive Commandments. You'll find them in your siddur.

How many of them can you remember?

Something Sweet
by Bayla Gimmel

Who does not retain special memories from Pesach and family visits?

Stories or Lies?
by A. Ross, M.Ed.

An articulate three-year-old comes home from nursery with some fantastic story which he has obviously invented. Mother enters into the spirit of the game and enlarges on it. E.g. "And then the elephant drank up everybody's milk and flew away, yes?" The child might deny this fact but in the end, they will both agree that it was fun. "Now tell me something interesting that really happened."

Doubts
by Sudy Rosengarten

My father-in-law, Pa, who had been helpless for years, was in the hospital.

I had stayed for the night because he was very nervous. I stood at his bedside, rearranging the bedclothes and reassuring him in a droning, hypnotic chant that everything was fine, that he was going to be well, that in just a few more days he would be going back home again.

Your Medical Questions Answered!
by Joseph B. Leibman, MD

Back to the kidney. Kidneys can fail for mechanical reasons as well. Blood clots or a dissection (a tear in the wall) of the main artery supplying the kidney can cut off its blood supply, as can trauma. We already discussed low blood pressure as a cause.

POET'S CORNER

The Candlewick
by Batya Nadel

Immersed in solid whiteness
Perfect and smooth
the wick winds through a groove
Emerging upward, free
Out above the waxy tube

It bursts -- a living flame
Never to be the same
and soon consumed.