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Imagine finally escaping a marriage after years of abuse. But there’s one last step- you need your abuser’s permission to get a divorce. That’s the reality for the Jewish women in Getting Free, and countless others around the world. Their husbands use a religious tradition to trap them in marriages that should have ended a long time ago. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Hosted by Rabbanit Leah Sarna, and produced by the International Beit Din, Getting Free tells the stories of women who finally escaped these marriages and rethinks the system that supports their abusers. The pilot ...

Understand Your Personality- Develop Your Soul - Da Es Nafshecha-'Getting to Know Your Soul'- is the companion volume to the popular Da Es Atzmecha-'Getting to Know Your Self.'Each one of us has a unique personality, but so often we are tempted judge ourselves in comparison to others. We become self-critical and lose sight of our individual purpose in life. We also tend to judge others too quickly, asking, 'Why is he like that?' Classic Torah texts explain the four fundamental elements of personality: fire, water, wind, and earth. For the first time ever, this information is explained ...

Which Jews are doing or creating fascinating things in Kansas City? Whose job is something that everyone else thinks is pretty great? And who’s raising a family while simultaneously saving the world? There’s one way to find out (and to get the secrets to their success): tune in to “Getting To Know Jew,” the new conversational podcast from The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle.

From the author of the acclaimed sefarim Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh (Building A Sanctuary In The Heart) and Da Es Atzmecha (Getting To Know Your Self) is a thought-provoking compilation of derashos about the unique avodas Hashem of the Jewish woman. HaGaon Rabbi Itamar Schwartz explains the special powers that Hashem has given to the Jewish woman’s soul, such as the ability to use the spiritual “heart,” the nature of the “extra understanding” given to women, the deeper implication of a woman’s “extra amount of speech,” the areas of strength which a mother has in raising children & ...