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Healing the Spirit, the Torah Way

Hinda Leah Scharfstein sees the Torah as more than just the original source of halachah, Jewish law, and the earliest telling of our nation\’s birth.

\”The Torah takes a holistic look at the individual, and it does tend to have a sort of healing effect on people,\” said Scharfstein, the executive director of Bais Chana Women\’s International, a New York-based nonprofit. \”I attended my first holistic Torah retreat 20 years ago, and I have been involved on a professional and personal level with it ever since, and since then I have definitely felt better. My thinking has become healthier, and I feel more whole.\”

New Mikvah Ain’t Your Bubbes Bath

Some say Fanit Panofsky was destined to build a mikvah. In her native Morocco, her great-grandmother operated a mikvah. So, too, did her grandmother.

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