BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

This article rang true for me and how I have spent the last 6+ years of my life. I hope you get something from it also. - Barbara The Point of Return by Rosally Saltsman We can take the most insidious penchant, and nurture it into a positive and restorative force. Frank Abagnale, the "hero" of the book and movie Catch Me if You Can , was one of the most infamous contemporary outlaws. He successfully eluded the FBI, Interpol and the Justice system of 26 countries for five years, while amassing millions. After being caught and serving five years in prison, he was offered a chance to redeem himself by working for the U.S. government, uncovering the kind of schemes that he himself had perpetuated. He went from master criminal to crime prevention, protecting companies around the world from people like himself. Moreover, he paid back all the money he stole. Abagnale's success story is paralleled in the Talmud. Reish Lakish was a successful bandit known for his unusua...

The last few years have been hard for me and its been difficult to get back to my purposeful life - which I have devoted first: to being the mother my children need and deserve and second: to serve God by helping others. I know this is what my murdered therapist would have told me to do. It is what she encouraged me to do, among other things and was my silent cheerleader in everything I did do. Also, it is what she devoted her life to doing - helping others. For some time after her murder I "sat a personal shiva" for the relationship which is now gone, and which I and everyone who knew her, had ripped from them. I stayed and even revisit that grief on occassion. That's exactly what she would have told me to do - take as long as you need and don't let anyone tell you to just "get over it." And I am going on with life. As my beloved Nana (who lost her husband suddenly when she was 48, and her son just 4 years before her death) said - "Keep livin...