A boy who was only 5 years old when he was taken in 1999 was reunited with his mother on Sunday for the first time in 12 years — thanks to Facebook.

In 1999, Kattia Liebers was mired in a bitter custody dispute with her husband in her native Costa Rica. And when her husband fled the country, he stole a part of Liebers’ life, she told Philadelphia’s Fox 29.

“He told me, ‘I’m going take your son away from you. I’m going to destroy you,’” Liebers told Fox 29′s Chris O’Connell. For years she searched for Jared, unsure where her husband had taken the boy.

“I was crying every day. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep,” she said.

More than a decade later, the wait is over — and her life has changed once again. This time, it came by way of a single message on Facebook.

“Hi, is this Kattia Chacon Sanchez by any chance?” the original message asked.

“Who is this?” the mother said she replied.

“I’m Jared Liebers,” came the reply.

“If you’re Jared Liebers, I’m your mom, and I love you very much,” Kattia wrote back.

Jared Liebers had found his mom.

Jared had been living with his father in Israel; on Sunday the 17-year-old moved back to the United States to be with his mother.

Through the years, Kattia kept all of Jared’s pictures and toys. And among Jared’s current possessions? A book of Spanish words his mother gave him.

Kattia Liebers actually kept her married name so her son would be able to find her after all these years, Fox 29 reported.

Today Jared Liebers is enrolled in North Penn High School in Towamencin Township, Pa. — and looks forward to catching up on half a lifetime.

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Gathered at the nation’s oldest Episcopal cathedral, members of the Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths joined together to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The interfaith service, held at Trinity and St. Philip’s Cathedral in Newark and attended by the city’s mayor, Cory Booker, blended religious readings, chants and music from the three faiths under the guidance of Rev. Mark Beckwith, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz, of Temple B’Nai Jeshurun in Short Hills, and Imam Wahy-ud Deen Shareef, of the Masjid Waarith ud Deen in Irvington. The three clergymen have worked together on anti-violence initiatives in Newark. (Video by Nyier Abdou/The Star-Ledger)

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Judaism is the “religion, philosophy, and way of life” of the Jewish people. Judaism, originating in the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Tanakh) and explored in later texts such as the Talmud, is considered by Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God developed with the Children of Israel. According to traditional Rabbinic Judaism, God revealed his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral Torah. This was historically challenged by the Karaites who maintain that only the Written Torah was revealed, and, in modern times, liberal movements such as Humanistic Judaism may be nontheistic. The Hebrews / Israelites were called (referred to) as Jews, already, as early as in the Book of Esther. The term Jews replaced the title “Children of Israel.”

Judaism claims a historical continuity spanning more than 3,000 years. It is one of the oldest monotheistic religions, and the oldest to survive into the present day. Its texts, traditions and values have inspired later Abrahamic religions, including Christianity, Islam and the Baha’i Faith. Many aspects of Judaism have also directly or indirectly influenced secular Western ethics and civil law.

Jews are an ethnoreligious group that includes those born Jewish and converts to Judaism. In 2007, the world Jewish population was estimated at 13 million, of whom about 40% reside in Israel and 40% in the United States. The largest Jewish religious movements are Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism. A major source of difference between these groups is their approach to Jewish law. Orthodox and Conservative Judaism maintain that Jewish law should be followed, with Conservative Judaism promoting a more “modern” interpretation of its requirements than Orthodox Judaism. Reform Judaism is generally more liberal than these other two movements, and its typical position is that Jewish law should be viewed as a set of general guidelines rather than as a list of restrictions whose literal observance is required of all Jews. Historically, special courts enforced Jewish law; today, these courts still exist but the practice of Judaism is mostly voluntary. Authority on theological and legal matters is not vested in any one person or organization, but in the sacred texts and the many rabbis and scholars who interpret these texts.

American Jews, also known as Jewish Americans, are American citizens or resident aliens of the Jewish faith and/or Jewish ethnicity. The Jewish community in the United States is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews who emigrated from Central and Eastern Europe, and their U.S.-born descendants. A minority from all Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented, including Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and a number of converts. The American Jewish community manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions, as well as encompassing the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance.

Depending on religious definitions and varying population data, the United States is home to the largest or second largest (after Israel) Jewish community in the world. The population of American adherents of Judaism was estimated to be approximately 5,128,000 (1.7%) of the total population in 2007 (301,621,000); including those who identify themselves culturally as Jewish (but not necessarily religiously), this population was estimated at 6,489,000 (2.2%) as of 2008. As a contrast, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics estimated the Israeli Jewish population was 5,664,000 in 2009 (75.4% of the total population).

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See page 875-877 and page 897 of Duties of the Heart from Feldheim Publishers, in volume 2. My own translation of what appears on these pages (so as to avoid copyright problems) is as follows: On page 897 it is written, “Therefore, please listen, and see, and incline your ear, and forget your people and the house of your father, and arise crying out to your King [in] your days and [in] your nights; lift up your hands towards Him, and prostrate to Him [with your] face to the ground. And your eyelids should stream waters, while kneeling upon your knees..” Towards the beginning of page 875 it says, “And among them (the signs of love towards the Almighty), is that at night he “falls [in prostration]” (a Jewish euphamism for prostration and supplication)…. page 877 continues “And whoever accepts this upon himself, should practice with the “Admonition”; he should pray it while sitting; afterwards he should preface it with songs from the known songs/psalms, or others. And afterwards he should pray the “Entreaty” while standing, and [then] prostrate until the end of it. And [then] kneel and say what he desires of supplications.”

There are, in fact, many references to the practice of actual prostration throughout Jewish writings… A very deep text written about the topic, one which is unfortunately equally difficult to get one’s hands on, is the volume of the book HaMaspeek l’Ovdei HaShem by Rav Avraham son of Rambam where he writes around 100 pages on the practice and significance of prostration.

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