http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/articles/ Featured articles from OU's weekly Shabbat Shalom Newsletter en Copyright 2009 2009-11-20T05:00:26+00:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/paying_babysitters_on_time/ Question: I hired a babysitter to watch my children. Must I pay the babysitter as soon as I return? Does it make a difference if the babysitter asks for the money or not and if she is a child or an adult? Featured Articles, Halacha, OU Home, Articles 2009-11-04T16:48:24+00:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/my_35th_wedding_anniversary/ My husband is upstairs in bed, sleeping the deep sleep of a body stricken with the flu. Downstairs, my daughter’s newborn son is sleeping peacefully... Featured Articles 2009-10-22T19:30:23+00:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/tel_aviv_slideshow/ Whenever I’ve completed work on a particularly exhausting project and feel the need to “get away from it all," my husband and I do the next best thing to hopping a plane to somewhere abroad. We drive from Efrat to the Beit Shemesh train station, and hop a train to Tel Aviv. Featured Articles, Featured Multimedia 2009-10-20T19:27:55+00:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/shapiro_the_fifth_glass_of_vodka/ One rainy winter night, R’ Bunim happily found shelter from a frigid downpour at an inn along his route. As the innkeeper welcomed him in and served him a hot drink, R’ Bunim glanced around and noticed that the place was bereft of customers. “How’s business these days?” he asked. Featured Articles 2009-10-15T22:55:25+00:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/mermelstein_pacing/ “Did I tell you what happened to me on Erev Sukkot?” my friend Atara asks me. We sit in her kitchen as she spices her salmon. Our children play outside in the Sukkah... Featured Articles, Sukkot 2009-09-30T20:08:03+00:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/Long_Way_Home/ This past year, during the early days of the Gaza War, I traveled down South with Yad Eliezer and had the opportunity to visit with our wounded soldiers in Soroka Hospital... Featured Articles 2009-09-24T22:11:50+00:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/nullity_of_being/ Regardless of how it is characterized, man’s essential duality creates tension in his life... Featured Articles, Yom Kippur 2009-09-24T18:44:49+00:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/binding_of_isaac/ Every year as the New Year approaches I find that, despite my best intentions, reality dictates that I concentrate more on the physical preparations than the spiritual ones for the holiday. Featured Articles, Rosh Hashanah 2009-09-17T19:55:49+00:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/designing_own_calendar/ There are calendars which provide the convenience of viewing one day at a time. At the end of the day, the day’s page is torn off and disposed of. When the year ends and all the days and pages have been discarded, all that is left is the pageless, empty cover. Featured Articles, Rosh Hashanah 2009-09-16T18:34:58+00:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/the_same_old_story/ One fateful Rosh Hashana Day, the soul of Gershon Kleinbard stood in an endless line of living souls, each waiting to appear before the Master of the Universe for the moment of judgment and reckoning. Featured Articles, Rosh Hashanah 2009-09-10T20:06:07+00:00