Brooklyn, NY – In the aftermath of the horrific death of Leiby Kletzky, a panel of noted social workers will be featured at an Erev Tisha B’Av event which will address dealing with trauma and establishing a climate of safety in our lives.
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Titled Erev Tisha B’av Tehillim and Talk: How We Heal, Deal and Feel, Coping with Trauma and Creating Safety, the women’s only event will be held on Monday August 8th from 10 AM to 11:30 AM in Brooklyn, NY at Mishkon, 1358 56th Street.
The program will start with Tehillim and divrei chizuk from Rebbetzin Ruthy Assaf, renowned mechaneches and lecturer, followed by a panel discussion which will discuss dealing with loss, healing for both adults and children and how to continue living safe and healthy lives, following the last month’s terrible tragedy.
The panel, which will be moderated by Miriam Turk, Program Director and Jewish Climinal and Community Outreach at F.E.G.S. Health and Human Services System, will feature Zahava Farbman, Associate Director of Crisis Intervention and Bereavement Services at Chai Lifeline, Shana Frydman, Director of Family Violence Services and Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, Chana Widawski, Social Worker at the King’s County District Attorney’s Office, Faye Wilbur, Director at the Boro Park Counseling Center of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services.
“It is essential that we as mothers take care of ourselves not only our children. We are hoping that the program Monday morning does a little bit of both.” says Faye Wilbur, LCSW, Director of the JBFCS Boro Park.
For more information on this program call 718-250-2045.
How Ironic!
It’s moments before Tisha B’Av and WHICH Trauam are they concerned about?
The Chacomim say:
Kol Mi Sheloy Nivene Beis Hamikdash Beyomov, Keilu Nechrav Beyomov.
The Ragatchover Gaon explains this, that it is because the Churban Beis Hamikdash is a Peula Nimsheches and so the Churban is not in the Past but in the present and happening today, as a new current Churban every second today and now,
If the any one of us would see TODAY with our own eyes how the Bies Hamikdash is nechrav Beyomov, would we not suffer Trauma today?!
Why are a few women concered with the Trauma of Kletzky and not with the Trauma of all of Klal Yisroel who’s Beis Hamikdash is Nechrav Today?!
one is not a steera to the other.the tremendous ahavas yisroel exhibited regarding this tragedy surely has given some measure of nechama to Hashem kiviyachol and to the family.it should to you as well.
Baruch HaShem to the women getting together to say tehillim & to do good works in light of the tragedies & everything that is has been going on! I’m so proud to see the community standing up for one another like never before, and banding together like this! What a Kadush HaShem! (Wait… did I say that right? *lol* Sorry…terrible at Hebrew still.)
In any case, it’s seeing all of these good works by the righteous like this that helped to inspire my husband & I to leave the Avodah Zara of Christianity, and come back to the Torah & to what is true!
G-d bless these ladies for setting such a good example to women everywhere! May we all work together for the greater good, and continue to help one another protect each other’s children & to keep our communities safe!
Shalom to all! (:-D
we do not have the merit to judge,only hasham can see what we cannot,everything that comes from hashem is good even though our freshly eyes cannot see it,may we see the imm geula now
We need social workers to tell us how to deal with tragedy? What about our gedolim? They have nothing to say? where is our emunas chachamim? Did we trade it in for emunas social workers?
when is comes to the bais hamekdash we must look at our self and ask what am i doing that the third temple is not yet rebuilt!!! in eicha it is says one cries but there is no comfort so there is two types of crying the first cires cuz they see someonelse cry but feel nothing. the second cries cuz they feel the pain then hashem will give them comfort!!! let our problems become hashems problems amd now hashem will ltake responsibility and carry us through and out of these given situation(s) amen.
someome once said that i came on this to world to fix the next guy cuz to fix myself is to difficult. wherever the restriction lies that is where the pain is!!!! may we all merit that through hashem mercy that hashem wills end mosiach and the rebuildin of the third temple amen.
a women once wrote a tzaddik in jerusaelm that her neighbours kids are misbehaved. the tzaddik answered that by your letter you dont care about your neighbors kids you have pain that presently you dont have any children.so that is where you focus is instead of asking hashem for children amen.
Someone brought up the Holocaust, and how “if you are not a survivor or a chid of survivors then you don’t feel” the “trauma” of the Holocaust, she said.
This is surely the case, and it is to a large degree the result of the abysmal lack of Jewish history in general and Holocaust education in particular in so many of our schools. (The Holocaust is even covered in public schools, in greater depth than in many of our schools.)
To try to imagine the horror of the Holocaust, take the tragedy of Leiby HyD and multiply it by about 1.5 million. ( I can share here stories that are simply unspeakable, such as babies being fed to rats, and others used as target practice, with siblings forced to watch, and with still others subject to torture and unimaginable cruelty. Similarly unspeakable crimes were committed during the Crusades, such as cutting open the abdomens of pregnant women and putting cats inside, as Rabbi Berel Wein has documented.)
The survivors met mostly with apathy, and some even met with scorn because many Jews supposedly went “like sheep to the slaughter.” Despite that, these survivors built our thriving communities, and continued the legacy of their own communities.
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We should support any program which sensitizes and offers support to our women. Such programs should also be offered to men. This program, in particular, seems especially well organized. We’re all in this together, and I therefore hope that a similar program will be offered to men.