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Rachel Leah Fry |
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 Rachel Leah Fry lives in Daphne, AL, with her husband and three dogs. She is continuing her Jewish journey and education, studying Torah and Tanya with Rabbi Yosef Goldwasser, Chabad of Mobile, AL. She also continues to chronicle her journey in other Jewish publications.
I longed to connect with a larger local community.
Each of the shattered bowls reminds me that G‑d is the only constant in our lives, there when we need His loving care to remake us in a new and better way.
I needed a complete understanding of all the places I could reach out to my precious grandparents, and find them waiting for and available to me.
I yearn to learn—to be Jewish not in name only, but as one who respects and fully embraces my religion and heritage with love and gratitude.
Going on without the day-to-day ties to someone you love is a necessary part of letting go of the deep, searing grief and turning back to your own life
I am learning that G‑d has the power to save each of us; He literally saved my life.
My new name held a softness to it, yet lent strength to my effort to heal and begin to live life again as a whole, and wholly new, person.
Recently, they experienced an event that has shaken their professed lack of belief.
I had always felt like a fraud in a church, quite torn, but didn’t know how to begin to live life as a Jew. So I slogged along, well into middle age, not knowing where to begin.
My journey to find my Jewish reality is fairly recent and in the beginning was quite tentative. When I began to seek out places to go to services, I had no idea how healing that would be.
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