“You ask, where is aveilus? It’s been watered down to unseen levels. It is collateral damage, a victim of 2023”
I could so relate to Dena Mason’s article on “Whatever Happened to Aveilus.”
Firstly, to you, Dena, HaMakom Yenacheim es’chem b’soch she’ar aveilei Tzion v’Yerushalayim. May you know of no more tzaar.
I couldn’t agree with you more with so many of your points. I, too, lost my father many years ago, as well as my mother two years ago. When I sat shivah for my beloved parents, people said I was too strict with myself. Like you, I wasn’t looking for loopholes.
People also suggested different ways for me to be able to join in their simchah. I really wasn’t in the frame of mind for simchahs and wanted to do the right thing for my parents.
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