Just recently, businesswoman and celebrity Nicole Reidman shared with her followers on the social network about the challenge she posed to herself, and in the Story series she said she decided to keep kosher, and in addition, she does not smoke on Saturday. In the video, her youngest son, 8-year-old Ritchie, who shares her and the Israeli oligarch Michael Chernoy, explained, “We both started eating kosher and you have not smoked since Shabbat. It’s fun, you finally do not smoke.”
In a round of questions and answers with the surfers, Reidman told of a rabbi to whom she is especially attached, and revealed that this is Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman, the chief rabbi of Migdal Haemek who heads many charities and winner of the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement and Presidential Medal. “There is nothing about him in the world,” Nicole wrote, adding that she is also connected to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Rebbe of Lubavitch, the founder of Chabad.
“A balanced way of life between faith and religion and modern life is the right way of life for me”
She was further asked by followers how she began to keep Shabbat. “My grandmother was kosher and came from a traditional family. My grandfather was the chief rabbi in Ukraine. After my grandmother passed away, I stopped, I was angry that God took it from me very early, today I understand that a balanced way of life between faith and religion and modern life is the right way for me.”
Reidman says she experienced a very strange, perhaps symbolic, case that made her decide to keep kosher, “a decision that I am very whole with and feel great about. “In non-kosher restaurants but do not mix meat and milk, do not touch non-kosher meat, do not touch seafood and non-kosher fish. Highly recommend to everyone. It really is not difficult.”