My name is Kimmie Joy Zeltzer and my Hebrew name is Hadassah Chavivah bat Chaya Faiga Zeltzer. I also go by my Pseudonym name “Tzedeck” in my professional work as a multi-disciplinary artist and a former Judia teacher.

I have had the honor to teach little Jewish children in my local Jewish communities where I live in Brookline, Chestnut Hill and Cambridge Ma.  As well as mature adults in the Boston and Brookline Jewish communities in the State of Ma.

I am also a survivor of Clergy abuse.

It has taken me many years to feel confident enough to come out and say this publicly and to acknowledge all of the wonderful people and families and individuals in our local Jewish communities from the state of Massachusetts and Israel who have stood by me both privately and publicly throughout the many decades of my recovery and healing so I could  be able to  integrate back into the our beloved Jewish communities and be a active member of the Jewish people again.

I have also been fortunate enough to stay connected throughout the years to many local Jewish women and their families who created a safe space to for me to celebrate the Jewish holidays and Shabbat on many occasions with their own family’s which gave me a sense of belonging and family when I could not be with my own family.

These local Jewish women in Brookline, Brighton, Newton, and Boston, MA. as well other Jewish individual women and men have been my silent partners for many years in the State of MA. while I have been working hard in many areas of my life to be whole again.

I am very grateful to have had the chance to get to know all of these Jewish women and their beautiful families on an intimate one-to-one basis and to be able to celebrate and be invited into their homes with their families to witness and participate with them to celebrate many Jewish Holidays and Jewish events throughout the last several decades in Boston and Brookline ma and in Israel.

These Jewish women and their families stood by me and supported me by fostering and creating a safe space for me to heal and to stay connected to my Judaism, my faith, and my ability to observe Hashem’s Torah and mitzvahs to the best of my ability one day and one second at a time while I continued to heal and work towards a life worth living.

I also have been blessed to have had the opportunity to continue to study Torah throughout the decades from many brilliant, intelligent and compassionate super hero female Torah teachers and Rebbetzins and their husbands both locally in the State of Ma. New York, and Israel.

Despite the injustice that happened to me, I have been able to preserver and work hard and learn from my inner circle of female Torah teachers and Torah partners and their husbands who are all of our cherished and beloved Jewish leaders and Rabbis.

This was the catalyst that I needed to stay connected to Hashem and his Torah which supported my mental health treatment me and helped me internalize the Torahs eternal truths to stay alive.

For that I am an enterally grateful for.

My long-term goal has always been to heal and partner with Jewish and non-Jewish leaders and organizations in the State of MA. and aboard to support all of the hard work that other advocates and leaders and members of the Jewish faith have already done to keep our communities safe for all of Hashems children.

And to create a fund with sufficient financial resources in our communities and other communities for rehabilitation and recovery for survivors like myself.

I am grateful to Hashem for giving me the strength to endure this long journey back to myself. And to be able to reclaim my identity as Jewish women and member of the Jewish community.

My prayer and good wishes for all of us as we start preparing for Purim and Pesach is that we remember that the same G-d that are ancestors prayed to so many years ago on Purim and in Egypt for teshuva and freedom out of bondage is still the same G-d we can also pray to and reach out to for redemption from whatever is keeping us in bondage as modern Jews in 2026/5786.

We are not alone! That same G-d that heard Mordechai and Esther to give them the courage to save the Jewish people from Haman and his wicked plans. Was also the same G-d to free our ancestors from slavery on Pesach and heard their collective cry for salvation so many years ago in Mitzraim (Egypt) is still that same everlasting G-d we have access to today in the year 2026/5786.

Hashem has never left us or will leave us and there is still great hope for salvation, redemption and happiness and healing for all of Khal Israel and the world.

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