To My Mother, On This Day

Prepared by Rabbi Anchelle Perl A Mother’s Day Meditation to Read Aloud

Mama — before I say anything else, let me say this: I see you.

I see the years you carried me before I could carry myself. I see the meals, the worries, the late nights, the early mornings, the thousand small acts of love I was too young to notice and, for a while, too busy to thank you for.

Our Sages call a mother akeres habayis — the root of the home. Not the decoration. Not even the manager. The root. Above the ground, the world sees the trunk and branches; underneath, unseen, is the root that holds it all. That........

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