A Message from Yehudis Sherman
She puts the kugel in the oven, smooths the tablecloth, and sets the plates just so. From the outside, it looks like any other Shabbos table. But inside, there’s an ache so deep, so constant, she has learned to hide it well.
Her children, wide-eyed and hopeful, look to her for the warmth of a home filled with laughter, with joy, with the security they see in their friends’ houses. She smiles, holds it together, pours the grape juice, and sings the brachos with them. But when they’re finally asleep, when the house is quiet, when no one is watching—she breaks.
This is the silent world of a frum single mother. Whether through divorce or loss, she finds herself alone in a community built on mishpacha. She walks into shul and wonders where she belongs. She walks through the grocery store and prays the total won’t be more than she can afford. She sits at a simcha, at a school event, at a Shabbos table meant for many, and feels the weight of what’s missing.
This is why Mishpachtainu exists.
We are here to tell her: You are not alone.
We host her for Shabbos, because no mother should sit at an empty table. We stock her fridge with fresh food, because no child should go to sleep hungry. We provide support groups, workshops, and community, because no woman should have to rebuild her life alone.
And right now, we are running the Double Win Campaign—because helping her shouldn’t just be an act of giving, it should be an act of celebration.
With just a few days left—until March 26—every donation gives you the chance to win $100,000 and 10 incredible prizes. This campaign was created to be a win-win. A win for these mothers and their children, who so desperately need the support of our community. And a win for you, because giving should feel joyful, abundant, and full of blessing.
If you ever wondered, How can I make a real difference?—this is your moment.
Donate now. Give her a new beginning. Give yourself a chance to win big.
May Hashem bless you with health, parnassah b’harchavah, nachas from your children, and an abundance of simcha and brachos in your life. May you always be on the giving side, and may your kindness bring you revealed goodness in this world and the next.
Yehudis Sherman
Founder, Mishpachtainu
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I’m not sure why no woman deserves to sit alone but it’s ok for the man to sit alone with his children.
If it wasn’t so stigmatized it would be Perry fine for either of them to have a wonderful with their kids as I do every other shabbos.
A single father who enjoys shabbos with his children.
Or nature?
Not sure why this scenario is genderized or why Mishpachtainu is just for women, but its founder is a woman, and she’s entitled to focus on who she wants to, and if someone else wants to support single fathers they can too. but I do wonder why that’s necessary and not make a single “parent” support
Because they’re divorced for a reason. Should single woman or men want to meet their ex at an event meant to give her or him support from being divorced from said ex? It’s also not tznius
Yehudis – you are a tzadekes!! You built this organization from the ground up and have brought hope and joy to so many women! Hashem should bless you with magnificent success and BH you should go out of business soon when Moshiach comes!
I haven’t seen just 1 ,,, ONE ,,,,, article about what men go thru when there is a DIVORCE,,,,, It’s always nebech HE is withholding the GET? By Frummer yidden there is a Bais Din , Dayonim and one million percent a GET should not be used as a tool to destroy the mother of your children,,,, neither is it ok for a woman not to accept a GET and make a man get MEAH RABBONIM in order to get remarried,,,, I know personally because the wife’s side had money no ROV wanted to get involved, finally after losing many… Read more »
This organization only happened beacuse a single woman started it.
So appreciate seeing this as i know of more than one single mother in crown heights. With respect to the single father’s who want to come to this article to lament on a cause that single woman desperately need. No need to compare causes for single woman vs men,its not a competition. Men vs woman, boys vs girls, please… Its not second grade now or is it? Noone is stopping them from making their own cause which they have and some of them get more support behind the scenes than woman do. Single woman have too much weight on them… Read more »
I’m really struggling in alot of ways. I’m socially isolated and in piles of debt. I’m so depressed that I don’t want to wake up in the morning and face another day. My nights are sleepless from ptsd nightmares to the list of things that need to get done. I always owe rent,my shoes and kids shoes are always torn and I end up in the emergency room every year when the tuition calls for school and camp start ringing. I don’t have the confidence to call this organization even though I really want to. I feel so bad about… Read more »
Hashem should bench you with all you Tefillos answer in a way of revealed goid
I would like to help you by donating some money to help you with bills, do you have cashapp, or paypal ?
Kudos to you, as your money will go straight to a poor single mom instead of to an organization which doesn’t help financially with straight money to help the mom. I applaud this. Cuz I myself am a single mom & know that most of the orgs don help financially & the most what we need is a check in the mail to help pay our bills cuz we can’t catch up.
Your comment really touched me…. I am married and know what those calls from the school and camp feel like when you are trying your best to do the right thing for your children yet there is no money for you to give. Why don’t schools understand that? The pain and distress that these calls cause… taking it out on innocent children. I can only imagine what it’s like for a single mother who must face this burden alone.
If any of the complainers feel an organization is needed for men, why don’t you create one? Why bash this one? However, let’s state some facts. Before stating the facts I will be mindful of the fact that there are some single men who have the kids all week long. Also mindful of the fact that in some cases the women are withholding the children from the husband. However, in the majority of cases the women have the kids all week long, not just Shabbos or every other Shabbos. And it’s hard. Even though Beis Din is more likely to… Read more »
Please keep this a safe space for single moms ,they go through enough.
Just feeling validated could be enough to give someone a little extra strength on their journey. Just knowing there are people out there in the community caring without judgment about single moms means the world.
Why does it bother some of the single father’s out there that there’s a support group for single moms? Has nothing to do with you. It’s like some exs have a hard time seeing any good happening for their exs,its as if they just want their ex to be miserable
If a woman wrote that comment you wouldn’t have said it. Men don’t get to complain, they are only allowed to solve. Why can’t we just be sensitive to the human who feels neglected regardless of gender?
Woman should live in their feminine energy and men in their masculine energy.