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Lullaby for a girl / Berceuse pour une fille http://www.4shared.com/audio/ds_y4R68/ta
Lullaby for a boy / Berceuse pour un garçon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSlOcaRf0
A mother's prayer / La prière d'une mère http://www.4shared.com/mp3/0_jROs_O/tanj
Avraham Avinu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZtU3yNAu
Wedding Song / Chanson de mariage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyqzqHpO
Shir ha shirim inspired http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NhW_6O71
El Cid romance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbqmDAked
More to come, asap! ;)
Mazel tov! Our son was born last shabbes :D
(more details to come, of course)
a psychologist wrote the following: Out of the blue, a preschool boy started taking sharp objects and using them to scratch himself, even drawingblood. His parents took him to a child therapist who asked a lot of questions, took a detailed history, and talked with the little boy. The therapist then told the parents that the little fellow was "hurting inside." He did not prescribe any solution, mind you. Rather, he tried to persuade them to enroll the boy in play therapy. The parents smelled a rat. They agreed that none of this made sense. There was no reason for their son to be "hurting inside." His life was good. So, instead of enrolling their son in play therapy (which lacks any evidence of efficacy) they sat him down and told him, in no uncertain terms, to stop scratching and cutting himself. If he didn't, they were going to punish him. Period. He stopped, immediately and forever. End of story. What does this say about the "science" of psychology? And psychologists and other mental health practitioners? Does it suggest that we don't know what we are doing? That we use the capital letters after our names to hide the fact that we are groping around in the dark? Parents frequently ask me for referrals to child therapists. I usually caution parents against taking this step without first considering that intervention from a therapist can make a problem much worse. It can open cans of worms that are better left unopened. This is not mere opinion on my part.Study after study has found that for every three people who seek professional help, one gets better, one gets worse, and one stays the same. Furthermore, studies have found that the educational level of a person who is "counseling" another person has nothing to do with the outcome -- that a good friend is as likely to help you successfully resolve a problem as a person with a Ph.D. in psychology. What is more important than the person's educational level is how much they care and how successful they are at staying "removed" from the problem. Another study found that mental health professionals couldn't distinguish between people who were truly mentally ill and people who were merely pretending to be mentally ill. I am a psychologist; however, I no longer believe in psychology. I regard it simply as the most powerful secular religion ever developed. Psychology fools some of the people all of the time, but it no longer fools me. I am convinced that if The Great Psychological Rapture suddenly occurred, if every mental health professional suddenly disappeared, vanished, the quality of life in America would improve considerably. For one thing, parents would slowly but surely stop thinking that behavior problems are psychological issues and start dealing with them for what they are: behavior problems that require not "understanding" but firm, loving, intolerant discipline. As such, the behavior of children would improve. And what a great and wonderful thing that would be!!!! |
And B"H, because I may have found something I like even more.
I am hesitating between trying a lace front but I am wary of the glue issue. The daily option sounds like too much work, and the monthly option like really inconvenient. Still it is such a luxury to just comb your hair and go out without putting anything on!
Tonight a good sheitelmacher friend of mine called me, I hesitated to pick up as I had a headache, but B"H I did! She had just brought her sheitel to a guy who does extentions on TV people and celebs and for 850 euros he did something crazy to her wig, it looks ultra natural and the wig now reaches her bottom!
She is totally in love with it and she sent me pics and indeed, I would much rather pay what she paid instead of 2500+ euros for a new sheitel that may even not be the color or length I want! I just hope it is possible to make the hair around my face look longer so it doesn't look cut and I also can put it all back in a barrette as I did with first wig.
I"YH she will also give me the secret special diet she is on!
What a fantastic way to make a headache disappear B"H!!!
Is it that pre-existing problems are being exposed and dealt with, OR that talking about it, dwelling on it, and teaching about it, INCREASES THE NUMBERS
The media knows that when they report some awful teen incident of suicide or violence, there is the "copycat" phenomenon"
The Hebrew term Sephardim (in singular, Sephardi) is used for descendants of Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula—Spain and Portugal—before the expulsion. But this view is mistaken in a number of ways. For instance, the Jews of Africa, Iraq, and Iran are often described as Sephardic but in fact have a unique history of their own.
Some Sephardim like to call themselves “Sephardi tahor”, or “pure sephardi”, when they claim a Spanish heritage from the time of the Inquisition, as opposed to all other (so-called) Sephardim, Jews coming mostly from the Arab countries, who are conveniently labeled as “Sephardim” ex negativo, because they are not Ashkenazim.
