<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_jh12inie0_1634c0a0874e5ad6" width="199" height="130" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-size:12pt;margin-right:0px"></div><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"></font></span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><font color="#000000">We mourn the loss of Dr. Judi Guedalia as a friend and a colleague<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><font color="#000000">We were enriched by her energy, passion for Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and her fierce determination to bring healing<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="m_2273518555376977520m_5336519254817219715gmail-im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Among her multitude of accomplishments, Judi was the Director of the Neuropsychology Clinic, Chief Psychologist at Shaare Zedek Medical Center<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Founder of NEFESH Israel and authoress of…….<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><font color="#000000">For those who never met Judi, please take a moment to read her acceptance speech as she was awarded the Esther Solomon a’h award in 2011<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><font color="#000000">For those of us who did know her….you will read this with a heart filled with memories<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><u></u> </font><font color="#500050"><u></u></font></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Sincerely,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">The Board of NEFESH International</span></p>
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</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal">Dear Nefeshers,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal">Below is a copy of the Thank You speech I gave and a video that my sister Aviva Sussman took at the Nefesh XV Conference in Long Island, NY. I am grateful to Nefeshers and the Esther Solomon zl committee for honoring me with the award, and especially in awe and grateful to Hashem that allowed me to 'collect' the award in person.</div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal">To see the video scroll down to the black box with the arrow. It may not work each time but try again.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal">
At anyrate here is the speech in print.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal">All the best,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal">Judi Guedalia</div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"> </div><div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_2273518555376977520_m_5336519254817219715_m_-8522524224859009188_OLE_LINK1"><span><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Thank you for Esther Solomon Z’L
Award</font></span></b></span></a></div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><b><i><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Judith Sandra
Bendheim Guedalia, PhD.</font></span></i></b></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><b><i><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></i></b></span></span><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Before
I begin I would like to say <i>SheHechiyanu ve kiimanu VeHigianu Laa Zman
HaZeh. </i></font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><i><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></i></span></span><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">I
am truly honored to be a recipient of the Esther Solomon z”l award.<span> </span></font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Coming
from Israel to the Nefesh Conferences, I always came the night before to get my
‘land legs’ so to speak.<span> </span>Frequently that
meant helping out with last minute gluing, stuffing, etc. on the floor with my
swimming Chavruta, Esther Solomon.<span> </span></font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">The
women’s swim was at 7 am and Esther and I would be there with another few
stalwarts.<span> </span>After doing our laps we would
chat, Esther always had great ideas for <i>Shiduchim</i> and made quite a
few.<span> </span>I was less fortunate having made
just one shidduch, but I benefitted from the ones that she made.<span> </span>Esther made a SINGLE condition for A Shidduch,
a trip to Israel, and we would have coffee or lunch on my ‘home turf’ celebrating
each of her successes.<span> </span>May we all be
Zocheh to follow in her footsteps and be at Hashem’s service and be Mezaveg
Zevugim, join souls.</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">I
received the call telling me of the award just minutes after another fateful call,
that one informing me that my latest CT had come back with not such good news,
the cancer that was discovered a year ago and excised AND Chemo-ed, was back
full force and had succeeded in making a new tumor. </font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">My
first reaction was I don't want to get the award of the best Nebbish Story of
the conference.<span> </span>I was assured that the
committee had me on the short list for three years already, well before I was
ill, and that now I was the natural shoe- in. </font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Once
hearing that, which happened to be the day after the Nobel Prize was awarded
and retracted because the recipient had croaked three days previously; I said
"No Backsies". </font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri"><span> </span>I was again assured that that would be the
case. <span> </span>Parenthetically, the Nobel Awards
committee <u>did</u> reinstate Professor </font></span></span></span><span><span><span style="color:black;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Ralph Steinman z”l’s, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.</span></span></span><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"></span></span></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">And
now for the difficult part; the previous honorees were, as you all know, Rabbi
Dr. Abraham Twerski, Rav Dovid Cohen, Rabbi Dr. David Pelcovitz and Reb Ronnie
Greenwald.<span> </span>I recalled the song from
Sesame Street: "One of these things is not like the others", ME!<span> </span>If I was to accept the reward I had a lot of
responsibility to future FEMALE recipients.<span>
</span></font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="m_2273518555376977520m_5336519254817219715m_-8522524224859009188MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><span><font face="Calibri">1-</font><span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">One, they don't all have to have a Chronic Terminal
Illness; </font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="m_2273518555376977520m_5336519254817219715m_-8522524224859009188MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><span><font face="Calibri">2-</font><span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Two they don't <u>have</u> to wear Black Suits and
white accessories, and three…</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="m_2273518555376977520m_5336519254817219715m_-8522524224859009188MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><span><font face="Calibri">3-</font><span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">to quote Perry, the Republican hopeful, I forget what
Number three is…</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">What
should I wear, and of similar importance, what would I say?!?<span> </span>Just being here today took a tremendous toll,
not just on me but also on my family and my beloved husband, Rabbi Dr. Harris
Guedalia.<span> </span>Hashem aligned the stars and
moons and even as I write this I am not quite sure how and if my attendance
will work out.</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">This
time, I diagnosed the cancer recurrence on Rosh Hashana, and finagled a CT Scan
immediately following the Chag which confirmed a tumor a day later.<span> </span>There were many ‘Sefarot’ what would be the
best way to treat it.<span> </span>Most Docs said Surgery
was out of the Question, rather Shrink it with Chemo and then surgically remove
it; or the trickier more risky way, do surgery first and then do the Chemo to
ensure that the little buggers will not return any time soon.</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Most of the doctors in Israel and the States to whom we spoke
were not in favor of doing the surgery first.<span>
</span>But how could <b><u>I</u></b> let this unwanted ‘guest’ live in Me for
months before evicting it???<span> </span>I wanted it
O-U-T, and OUT as soon as possible, before it could grow a millimeter larger.<span> </span>The surgeon who operated on me 15 months
before in NY, when the wretched disease was first identified (by me), said he
could do the surgery and felt that doing it immediately was the way to go.<span> </span>I had it O-U-T in New York, the day after
Sukkot.<span> </span>Both times I had no symptoms and
my blood tests were just dandy.<span> </span>My main
‘complaint’ was stubborn constipation; even as the bowel system seemed to independently
work alright.</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Since
the surgeries, last year’s and now this one, the Beracha I say with the most
Kavana is ‘Asher Yazar’.<span> </span>The more I
looked into the meaning of this Beracha, the more I felt that it is an all-encompassing
special prayer that was so much deeper than its mere literal translation, a
Beracha with a message that we, as Torah True Mental Health Professionals, need
to integrate into our personal and professional lives.</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt">When
Theodore Reik spoke of the <i>Listening with the Third Ear</i>, he </span></span></span><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt" lang="EN">described
how psychoanalysts intuitively use their own unconscious minds to detect,
decode and decipher the unconscious wishes and fantasies of their
patients.<span> </span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri">When talking to my son David about the
‘Gadlous’ of the <i>Asher Yazar Beracha</i> for its psychological insight, I
noted that I visualize Hashem sitting on-high, permitting and allowing our soma
and stoma to receive and express so much more than the peristaltic flotsam of
basic day-to-day life.<span> </span>The sharpened
awareness of ‘what’s going on’ is the essence of true communication with
ourselves, with others, and of course with our Creator.<span> </span>My son David mentioned that I should look up
the Queen of Sheba’s riddles to King Solomon in Ginzberg’s <i>Legends of the
Jews</i>.<span> </span>He was right,</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri">Here is riddle number 7 (pg. 147).</font></span></span></span></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri">The Queen of Sheba poses this
riddle:<span> </span>“There is an enclosure with ten
doors, when one is open, nine are shut; when nine are open, one is shut.”</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri">King Solomon responded:</font></span></span></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri">“That enclosure is the womb; the ten
doors are the ten orifices of man—his eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, the
apertures for the discharge of the excreta and urine; the navel is open and the
other orifices are closed, but when it issues from the womb,(i.e. the child is born)
the navel is closed and the other ‘doors’ are opened.”</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri">This might be a weird association but I
felt it was ‘Right-ON’ the mark as a segue for my speech this afternoon.<span> </span>Leah Abramovitz and I attended our first
International Nefesh Conference 13 years ago, we both felt that with Nefesh
International as our mother ship, our placenta as it were, <span> </span>connecting and nurturing us, we could attempt
birthing Nefesh Israel.<span> </span>Rabbi Dr. Mordechai
Glick and his wife Nina, the then Presidential pair, and all the Board members
were very positive that our endeavor was possible, and so began the nascence of
Nefesh Israel.<span> </span>Today the proof of the
pudding is in the eating, with an attendance of around three hundred Torah True
Mental Health Professional a day at our two day conferences, and scores at our
year round lecture series, Nefesh Israel is more than off the ground, its
flying!<span> </span>This year on FEB 8<sup>TH</sup>
and 9TH 2012 we are having our ‘Bat Mitzvah’ Celebration, our 12th ANNUAL
ISRAEL NEFESH CONFERENCE.</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Thank
you again, awards committee and Nefeshers for bestowing on me the Esther
Solomon z”l award and as such recognizing Nefesh International’s role in the
birthing and nurturing of Nefesh Israel.<span>
</span>The ListServ which was ‘developed and set afloat’ in Israel under the
combined stewardship of Elana Walhaus and myself and later spun off into two,
Nefesh International ListServ, under Rabbi Dr. Mordechai<span> </span>Glick’s and now supplemented with Dr. Abe
Worenklein’s able leadership, and the Nefesh Israel ListServ.<span> </span>Both are entities which have joined our world
of Torah True Mental Health Professionals intergalactically as we would never
have imagined possible.</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">To
Sum up,</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Blessed art Thou, Lord our Gd, Ruler
of the universe.<span> </span>In wisdom Thou hast
formed man, creating within him channels innumerable.<span> </span>In Thy sublimity Thou knowest that were they
rent (torn) or obstructed we could not subsist even for a short while.<span> </span>Blessed art Thou, Lord who workest the
miracle of healing for all flesh. (Dr. David de Sola Pool’s translation of
Asher Yatzar)</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">I
will loosely translate it for us today, and the present and future Torah True
Mental Health Professionals:</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Blessed
is Hashem whose wisdom abounds and created within us many channels for getting
in and releasing ‘stuff’ that we and others, our patients for example, carry
about.<span> </span><span> </span>Channels of Spiritual, Secular and Humanistic
communication. Most importantly You have taught us the importance of releasing
and clearing these channels so that we will be available to exist as healthy
individuals <u>doing</u> and <u>working</u> for ourselves, our families and
Klall Yisrael.<span> </span></font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">That
is my prayer to us all, keep the lines of communication open, learn from one
another, and enjoy <b>LIFE</b> and <b>WORK</b> in that order.</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri">Thank
you.</font></span></span></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><br clear="all">Judith Guedalia, PhD.<br>Director, Neuropsychology Unit<br>Chief Psychologist,<br>Certified in ADOS Assessment<br>Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel<br>Tel: (972) (0) 2 666-6880<br>Fax:(972) (0) 2 666-6979<br>
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