FOR SALE
When E. placed a For Sale ad in Yated Ne'eman, her
only thought was that she hoped she would be able to sell an
American stove and dishwasher in excellent condition, which
did not fit into her Israeli kitchen. Little did she know
that the young couple who would follow up the ad and buy the
two items were immediate family of dear friends.
Mrs. E. had even attended the wedding of the woman who bought
the appliances! In short order, the connection was made. Mrs.
E. was reunited with her old dear friends and as a bonus to
the lucky buyers, she threw in a few extras to go with the
appliances.
Once again Yated Ne'eman was on the spot connecting
people, promoting sales of real estate, merchandise, services
and facilitating a few shidduchim.
RE: THE FEAT OF WALKING
Mrs. D. enjoys all of Rabbi Zobin's articles, but was
especially concerned about mothers who are in a rush to have
their babies walk.
"As the mother of a child with learning difficulties, I was
advised to have him go to therapeutic exercises. The teacher
has the group crawl, sometimes, walk backwards, run around a
bench and then reverse direction at the bang of his stick,
all activities that help reinforce certain circuits in the
brain.
"I once read that children who did not crawl at all or enough
may develop reading difficulties since they lack the hand-eye
coordination that develops with crawling. I also read an
article in Bayit Ne'eman about the therapeutic effect
of doing figure-eights, just walking around chairs!
"So, mothers, you might be able to head off learning
difficulties simply by encouraging your child to crawl around
more and not being in a hurry for them to walk!"
RE: COLITIS AND KROHN'S DISEASE
We still maintain, as did Varda Branfman, that a person can
tune into himself and with patience, wisdom and diet, bypass
the need for medicines like cortisone and heal oneself.
In any case, there is a new organization that can offer
support and information on the two above disease, with future
plans to develop permissible foods and sweets, open a kitchen
with a variety of permissible foods, publish a newsletter
with recipes and update on foods, organize lectures and so
on.
EZRA UMAZOR for digestive problems, a non-profit organization
with rabbinical endorsement, is presently located in Bnei
Brak, at Rechov Shammai 4, POB 661. Tel/fax 03-5703123.
MORE ON `SUFFERING' AND HARDSHIP
Mrs. F., who studied under R' Dessler and claims the
distinction of being the first English-born girl in Gateshead
sem., writes:
"I married a Ben Torah in 1950 when it was uncommon for an
English-born girl without money to do so, though I wasn't the
only one. I didn't think of it as mesiras nefesh but
as a privilege! It didn't bother me that I had friends better
off; I had Torah!
"Food was still rationed five years after the war and there
were no kosher treats or ready-made food, but we never went
hungry. Clothing was accepted and passed on, and even bar
mitzva boys got suits from cousins. I bought what I still
needed at semi-annual sales.
"Now my children tell me things are different. I wonder if
it's because there is B"H more Torah around that people don't
feel the urgency so much..."
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