Sadness; Grief

We read the story of Chana and Penina on Rosh Hashanah, when we pray for a good, sweet year. We pray for abundant blessings. Yet I believe there is a lesson in their story, cautioning us that with blessings come responsibility...

My personal mourning mingles with the mourning of centuries, with the loss of our Temple, a physical house in which to receive the presence of G‑d. Grief layers upon grief...

"Big people," my 3-year-old asserted with conviction, "know that when they want something, they should just ask their Mommies and they will get it..."

I can recall the day Tova died as if it were yesterday. I was eleven years old, and I had never experienced a loss like that. I was in shock...

Tears speak What words can’t say Death tears one’s heart Death tears one’s life

My best friend has recently been diagnosed with cancer. My mother died of the very same type two years ago. I want to be there for her, but I am so scared to go through all the pain and suffering again...

A friend of mine just recently lost her child in a car accident, and I haven’t called because I am just worried about saying the wrong thing...

Now that time has passed, I have more tools for processing emotions. Here are some things that would have given comfort to my grieving self.

We find ourselves faced with this intense duality in a single month: the happiest day and the saddest day within a week of each other.

Though only in her twenties at the time, my friend, Esther, had fought and overcome two bouts of cancer. As if that wasn't enough, she had lost a child in the most trying of circumstances...