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Europe, England..France..Scotland...Oh the places you will go! London was my original destination and from there i was going to have this fabulous European vacation jetting off to Paris, for sure going to hit Scotland...but then plans change. Ticket prices changed..So France was out of the question and then still with the hope of Scotland on the horizon that plan was dashed seeing as it decided to freeze over and snow mountains so in England I am to stay. Still, man, I am in ENGLAND! i was definitely not moping. This week we planned on hitting Cambridge and seeing the old English city and the university and all that is British..but as i have seen time and time over again You want to see G-d laugh..make a plan Somehow we managed to get supremely lost..and Baruch Hashem i don't have to drive in England..insane streets and they drive on the other side of the road..anyways we spent ages trying to find the right path, the right combination of complicated highway...stopped a few

I didn't have time to post this week, so instead i got a near and dear friend to guest post! Enjoy Shabbat Shalom! Don’t see people the way you want to, see them for who they genuinely are. What does that mean? I’ll try to explain. Sometimes the world has preconceived notions about people that lead to certain expectations, positive or negative ones, therefore they don’t see the person for who they truly are. Here’s a story to better explain. I have a coworker, and many people that she deals with have made assumptions about her and thus creating a negative image of her. I realized a long time ago that the expectations the world has of a person tends to get into that persons head and leads to the fulfillment of those expectations.  In any case, she’s seen as a drama queen who is all into making big deals about everything, has issues with boundaries and is all over the place. (I’m not really focusing on how the person who’s being judged should react and deal with it) But very often

Friends are the family we chose  So this is something that I've been thinking about writing for a long while. The topic of friends is one that has been spoken about on numerous levels. Who your friends are? How to deal with your friends? Do you keep your friends after you get married? Etc.. I myself have written about it on numerous occasions on the importance of  having a good svivah. The people you surround yourself with really make a difference in who you become. The way people speak, walk, eat and even how they have fun all really affect you. I've noticed in myself that i pick up people's expressions really quickly and their mannerisms shortly after. But as I just mentioned..I've said all of this already.  What i really wanted to emphasize how important just having friends is in a person's life. I saw this quote on friendship that i did not so much agree with "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value;

Last shabbat we came home from shul only to find a firetruck on our street..we feared the worst but hoped for the best. We didnt see any smoke so that was a good sign..right? As we got closer that there was two homes involved..two frum families in the community. The one house had a HUGE tree in their front lawn that had fallen over into the neighbor's lawn..and on its way down it had totaled two cars! The nissim involved this story are incredible. The family with the tree had just put up their mezzuzot the week before, had the tree fallen in any other direction their house would have a gaping hole in it. The other house with the crashed cars..normally the kids are always hanging on the lawn...but this week..they just "happened" to be inside. The family who had the  tree fall from their lawn are renting the house, the father of the family is a landscaper and when they moved in..he told the landlord that the two trees were dead and rotting and it was only a matter of