Why sit shivah for such a wayward sister?
Ephraim, my husband, was stone cold when he heard the news.
“So that’s how she went, huh,” was his reaction.
His first call was to our rav to ask if he was required to sit shivah.
“My sister grew up frum and abandoned Yiddishkeit in her early twenties,” he explained. “Not only was her lifestyle completely antithetical to Torah values, but she herself became an avowed feminist who was virulently antireligious and attacked Yiddishkeit at every opportunity, including on social media. For the past seven years, since she went off, I’ve had almost no relationship with her, as every conversation invariably turned into a diatribe on her part against some aspect of Yiddishkeit.”
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