Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller, well known writer and international lecturer, is addressing contemporary issues and challenges faced by today’s Jewish women. Women have been emailing their questions to Naaleh.com, and Rebbetzin Heller responds to each one with her distinct clarity, humor and wisdom. The class series, entitled “Rebbetzin’s Perspective: Balancing Life’s Challenges“, follows a previous 15-session Question and Answer series with Rebbetzin Heller, entitled “Achieving Balance: G-d, Family, and Work“.
“The course was created as a direct response to a need we saw in our community”, says Shula Gold, administrator at Naaleh.com. “Women who felt connected to Rebbetzin Heller, either through her shiurim at Naaleh.com, or from her many articles, books, and public lectures, turned to us with their life issues, asking Rebbetzin Heller to share advice and chizuk. We decided these answers could benefit other women, so we created this forum for Jewish women to anonymousy share their struggles and receive support.”
The question and answer sessions can be watched in streaming audio and video on Naaleh.com, or downloaded in mp3 and ipod format. Past questions have included topics like emuna, tznius, bitachon, chinuch, women’s role, kollel lifestyle, dealing with stress and illness, kiruv, challenges in finding a shidduch, and difficult family situations. The index of questions from the previous question and answer series with Rebbetzin Heller is available on Naaleh’s blog.
Women of all ages and backgrounds are responding enthusiastically to the series.
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Their site looks very interesting. However, you can only listen to a sample shiur unless you register & give your phone number. Not that I don’t trust them, but I’d like to know why they require so much information. Anyone who can comment?
maybe they wanna make sure you’re serious
I am one of the people that works for naaleh.com, and I would like to respond to the question about the registration. We require a phone number so that we have a way of contacting a user if they have any technical problems, and we also use it as a way of screening out people or organizations who would be using the site for inappropriate reasons.
We find that there are different scammers, missionaries and registration bots that try to register for the site, and requiring just a phone number helps keep them out. We want the site and our community to be a safe place for everyone, and this is just one way that we maintain a high quality in our membership even though the site is 100% free and funded by user donations.
As you can probably tell, we run the site very conservatively, and this is definitely different from the way that many other Torah sites operate. But we are concerned about not causing any harm with naaleh.com, so we do not want to be 100% open to just everyone on the Internet and have problems later on. And in over 2 years of running the site, so far we haven’t encountered any issues, and I think that some of that is due to the fact that we are perhaps ‘overly’ cautious.
And in case you are wondering, we do not sell our membership lists to spammers, so you will not suddenly receive a bunch of spam as soon as you sign up for naaleh.com
I hope that this answers your question!
I am a user of Naale and it is a wonderful website. You can watch, listen or download classes in various subjects from incredible mechanchim. Naale has allowed for these amazing personalities to come streaming right into your screen wherever you are in a varied range of subjects. They won’t call you…just part of the registration process.
I’d like to take this opportunity to invite all women and post seminary girls to a day of learning with Rebbitzen Heller this Sunday, May 3rd at Masores Bais Yaakov, 1395 Ocean Avenue, Corner I in Flatbush. Registration begins at 10:45am and the program is expected to end at 5:15pm. For more information about this event and other speaking engagements please visit:
http://www.tziporahheller.com/itinerary/itinerary3.html
She is quite a woman.
my “complaint” about Naaleh is that I find it difficult to keep up with all the wonderful shiurim. Among the many plusses of this wonderful seminary is that the shiurim have continuity. I cannot reccommend them enough. Naaleh staff & teachers keep it up