Series of Shiurim for Women

We are organizing a series of shiurim on the halachot of taharat mishpacha in the zechus of a refuah of Refael Matityahu Yaakov ben Gittel Rivkah for ladies only.  The five part review class will include both halacha and hashkafa and practical inspiring thoughts. The class is an open-style format and will last for no longer than 2 hours per class, which will include time for questions and answers. All questions and comments are welcome. Handouts will be distributed each time to minimize note taking and to share sources.

These classes will be taught by Yaffa Goldsmith (see bio below) and will be held at my house (980 East End in Saddle Ridge- Woodmere) from 8-10pm on the following dates:
July 20th , Aug 3rd, Aug 10th, Aug. 31st and  Sep.14th.  
Please note that these classes are a five part series, each class discussing a different aspect of tarahat mishpacha so your commitment is for the five-part series.
The class is limited to 15 people.  As the first class is scheduled to start next week, please email me and let me know by Monday 7/18 if you would like to participate.

Bio: Yaffa Goldsmith has been teaching Tanach in the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County for the past 18 years. She has served as a israel guidance faculty advisor and as the 12th grade mechanechet. Yaffa lectures for various national organizations and throughout the five towns. She is kallah teacher learning  one on one with engaged, newly married, and married women. She also gives a weekly Shmiras Halashon shiur in Lawrence. Yaffa lives in Cedarhurst with her husband and children.

For further information on the shiur, please contact Bini Dachs at 917-543-6335 or email her at soapfan5@aol.com

New location and date for Tehillim

Due to the taharat mishpacha shiur that is being given, tehillim will now be on Tuesday nights at 8:30 pm at 71 Grove Street in Cedarhurst.  Please make an effort to attend.

New Website

We are in the process of migrating from this blog to a fantastic website called tziporahsnest.com, which is very user friendly.  Please see email below for instructions how to log on and create an account.  Please create an account and use the website going forward (right now it is active for Challah baking and the meals will soon be added).

Hi! As you may have heard through the grapevine, or have seen on facebook, I am launching what I think is a much needed web site. The web site is

      At this time, we are beginning with what is called a soft launch, which is a beta launch or test mode launch. There will still be kinks to work out, and changes to be made, but we need to start using the site in order to find these glitches or issues. Please bare with us as we make these changes in order to make this web site the best that it could be.

      This week, we are going to start with only 3 campaigns....Darielle Fiedler Rabe, Jason Botnick and Daniella Vogel Shem Tov. In addition, we are only going to begin with the challah campaign and will slowly add the other campaigns soon.

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    You should receive an email reminder about baking challah. If you don't please let me know by completing the contact page. Also, if you experience any problems while you are on the web site, please fill out the contact page. The more we know, the more we can fix! Thanks in advance for your patience, and please spread the word! Have a great week and a great shabbos!tziporahsnest.com, tziporahsnest.com http://tziporahsnest.com/ and search for a name
D) Click on the name and sign up to bake challahand sign up for account. The beta mode invite code is "shira." Instructions to sign up:
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C) Go to and is a complimentary service for those wishing to help an individual going through an illness or crisis. When a friend or family member needs our prayers, we all want to know what we can do to make a difference. Tziporahsnest.com is the tool to help answer that question while at the same time making it easier to keep track and organize all the efforts put forth to help the person in need. This unique website will connect friends and family from all over the world who want to spiritually and practically make a difference during this time of need through Challah, Tehilim, Nourishment & Tzedakah.

Name Change

Going forward please use the following name for Tehillim:  Refael Matisyahu Yaakov ben Gitel Rivkah.

Change in tehillim location and day for summer weeks

Tehillim will be held on Wednesday nights throughout the summer at 8:30pm starting on 6/29.  Tehillim will be held at 980 East End in Woodmere.
Please make every effort to attend.

Tehillim Change

Based on feedback received from many of you, we are changing our tehillim location for Thursday mornings. Tuesday night will remain at 956 Midwood in Woodmere. We will meet on Thursday morning at the JCC Preschool in the library across from room 41 at 9:30am. We hope this will increase the attendance, as I know many of you drop of children at that time.

Therefore, here is the revised schedule. The groups will meet at these locations until further notice:  

Every Tuesday night at 8:30pm  will be at 956 Midwood Road in Woodmere
Every Thursday morning at 9:30am at the JCC preschool in Lawrence in the library across from room 41

Updated tehillim schedule

As you all know, Jason continues to need all our tefillot.   We have revised the tehillim groups- we will be having 2 formal groups specifically dedicated for Jason each week. In addition, there are many other tehillim groups throughout the community in which Jason's name will be said during the remaining days of the week. Therefore, on behalf of Jason's family, please make every effort possible to take some time out of your day to try and at least attend one tehillim gathering this week as it would really mean a lot to them to know that we are all davening for his speedy recovery.

Please see the revised tehillim schedule and the locations. The groups will meet at these locations until further notice:  

Every Tuesday night at 8:30pm  will be at 956 Midwood Road in Woodmere
Every Thursday morning at 9:30am will be at 980 East End in Woodmere