To the frum women

Religious Orthodox women are far and away the most unsung heroes of our entire society. They
get up early, get their kids ready, take the kids to school, go to work and slave in hours, 7-8
hours a day in jobs that many of them don’t like, in order that they can support their husbands in
kollel, who many times don’t appreciate them as they’re starting off for today. As they come
home after a long day at work, and then get a very short or non-existent break at all, in order to
reframe, take care of more kids, change more diapers, put more kids down for naps, while their
husband can be found in an air conditioned beis midrash mentor somewhere, but that’s not the
point today.
And then, you know, she continues to make lunches, organizes everything, tries to help with
homework as much as she can, and then Hashem tosses random things in front of her, and just
continues on and on and on. And anyone who’s in this world knows our story. There’s never a
break.
You think Shabos is a break, it’s not. You think Erev Shabbos is a break, it’s not. You think leil
Seder is it, it’s not.
You think bein hazmanim is a break, it’s not. You think we all sit here, it’s a break. It’s not.
So this initiative is to reinvigorate the holy, holy women of klal Yisroel, who the entire machine
rests upon, but no one says thank you, no one puts you up on award shows, no one puts you in
front of the nation on golden chariots.
Now, I will.
This is what this is for. So because of the Jewish women, to show you that you are a chashev,
you are the queens, your husbands are a distant third in many cases, and you deserve all the
praise and pampering you deserve, I will try to help inspire that through you as a 45-year-old
man who is divorced.
This is my first message to you, the klal Yisroel.
I love you, and good night.