I spoke to someone the other day on the topic of, what else? Kids! She asked me “How many do you have?” I told her “Three boys, Thank Hashem.” She said “What a handful!” I chuckled to myself, since I had recently read a news story about Simi Zalmanov, a woman in the city of Tzfat in Israel with 19 children. Actually, it isn’t totally unheard of in Chassidic circles for a woman to have 19 children. The typical Chassidic family has ten children, which is something I couldn’t imagine handling on a day to day basis, even though I … Continue reading →