"Although they are well intentioned, there are inexperienced, unsupervised, and untrained professionals out there who should not be practicing as psychotherapists"
Dear Sarah Chana Radcliffe,
In last week’s article, “Reason for Concern,” you write about how we should react when tragedy strikes, when Hashem sends us “an overdose of death consciousness” — that we shouldn’t be paralyzed but instead “repair our relationships [and] fulfill our spiritual, emotional, and physical potential.” It seemed to me that your piece had a spark of nevuah in it — Hashem sending us a refuah before the makkah.
On Lag B’omer, all of Klal Yisrael were walking around in a daze, in mourning, in shock. A friend of mine’s son was missing and we prepared for Shabbos with words of Tehillim on our lips. An hour before Shabbos we got the message: Baruch Dayan HaEmes. There was a grieving family in Manchester, a young almanah.
We thought about all the mothers, wives, sisters of our brethren in Eretz Yisrael preparing for Shabbos in pain. I bentshed licht in sorrow, with so many questions: How? Why did such a tragedy occur? Then I opened the Family First and read your article. Hashem’s love for His children was so clearly apparent — your inspiring article on death consciousness was printed on the exact week when every Jewish woman needed an extra ounce of chizuk.
May you continue to provide chizuk and growth for all your sisters around the world.
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