This article is about Dina Machla bas Eliezer. It is not about Dina stories. We all have our personal stories about Dina. This article is about the friend that I knew, the friend that I loved. Dina Machla was a tzniusdik (modest) person full of integrity, emes (truth), and love.

Three for Dina

Simcha, Bracha, and Shalom: the Words of Dina Blaustein

by Lisa Friedman

“May you have a day filled with much simcha, much bracha, and much shalom.” That was the cheerful message on the phone machine of my dear friend, Dina Blaustein, a”h. Years earlier, before the illness that took her