How Is This Possible? Frum Women Facing Shabbos Alone?

https://bit.ly/shabbosforsinglemoms How Is This Possible? Frum Women Facing Shabbos Alone? It’s heartbreaking. Rabbi Aryeh Royde saw it with his own eyes — frum women sitting alone on Shabbos. Candles lit. Silence. How is this possible? Even Chabad women from Crown Heights travel to Monsey. How can we look away? It is a cry that demands an answer. Rabbi Aryeh Royde, director of Project Inspire of Rockland County and founder of The Traveling Chassidim, has dedicated his life to one central mission: bringing oneg Shabbos to every Jew. As someone who lives Shabbos — who teaches that Shabbos is the tachlis of creation and the greatest gift Hashem gave us — he was shaken to discover that there are observant women sitting alone on Friday night. Lighting candles alone. Facing a holy day while feeling broken and isolated. “It’s heartbreaking,” he says in the video, describing women sitting home alone on Shabbos — “in the dark, lonely” . Shabbos is yom kedusha umenucha, a day of true rest and emunah . How could a Jewish woman experience that alone? When he came to see Mishpachtainu with his own eyes, he was deeply impressed. No Jewish woman should have to celebrate Shabbos alone.