There is no sugarcoating the struggles of dementia and its uniquely painful challenges. But if it is going to force us to focus our perspective, there is so much spiritual power in choosing to do that for ourselves.
I realized early on that my audience doesn’t need the education, they don’t need the political facts. . . . what they needed more than anything was to love their Judaism and have inspiration.
In densely Orthodox areas, it’s easy to forget—or never know about—the breadth of Jewry and how Jews live so differently in some ways yet so similarly in others.
Nowadays, no one who keeps kosher would ever consider buying meat without certification. No one would say, ‘well, this looks kosher to me, I’m sure it’s fine.’ We want to achieve the same standards when it comes to mezuzahs.