Rabbi's Weekly Message
She was a rose!
November 14, 2025
Amid a week of Mikvah renovations/remodel, thirty students attending the JLI course on “Kabbalah of Meaning”, Chavie hosting a women’s event at Art on Fire, getting to see the Northern Lights while on our back porch, and adding Mezuzos to three new homes in Bozeman and Big Sky, I got word that my dear friend, Alan Abrahamson, Moishele, passed away. His first email to me in 2011 stated “Living near Missoula, Chabad in Bozeman means nothing to me, and offers me nothing. Instead, you try to milk people who are trying to make it day to day...”, a few months later he attended a Shabbaton we hosted in Gardiner and wrote “I will not try to find the words to tell you how much this last weekend has meant to me...to my heart…”.

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I think of myself as a juggler: leading a Jewish community with my sushi loving husband, caring for my five rambunctious kids (who are adopted), and living in the Wild West of Montana, where it’s ALWAYS winter (or so it feels). It’s an art to be juggler, to live our fullest potential and still have very real lives. Not the perfect, glossy, manicured ones we so often encounter. I am here to be real.

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