When I sat down to write this post, COVID-19 had taken the lives of two million people worldwide. The families of those two million people have also experienced a loved one’s death and the grief that follows. For some, grief is a dull nagging pain that never seems to lessen no matter how much time …
Yesterday many Jews observed Holocaust Memorial Day. Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah, literally the “Day of (remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism,” is celebrated on the 27th day in the month of Nisan, a week after the seventh day of Passover, and a week before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen soldiers). It marks the …
It’s a Jewish tradition when someone dies to say, “May his or her memory be for blessing.” The actual honorific is “of blessed memory,” a translation of the Hebrew “zikhrono livrakha” (m.) or “zikhronah livrakha” (f.). It’s an odd type of statement really. I tend to say, “May his or her memory be a blessing.” …
Sometimes we grieve the death of someone who has passed on to the next world, and sometimes we grieve the loss of other things. What do you grieve? I grieve the loss of my lighthearted nature, my joy. I used to be a much happier person. I suspect that my joy began to dissipate when …
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