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The Unwinding of the Miracle: Life
Excerpted from The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After, by Julie Yip-Williams. Random House…
Where to Go from Here: Book Recommendations
After each 18Forty topic, we want the conversation to continue—beyond our episodes and beyond us. Books are the medium that never stop…
Changes in Exile: Three Talmudic Teachings for Our Time
Our mourning on Tisha B’Av is less about the Beit HaMikdash’s absence and more about the significance of that absence. That was…
How to Comfort: Three Talmudic Teachings for Our Time
“The fundamental purpose of the condolence call during shivah is to relieve the mourner of the intolerable burden of intense loneliness,” Rabbi…
Forgetting Someone
Forgetting Someone Translated by Chana Bloch Forgetting someone is like forgetting to turn off the light in the backyard so it…
Losing a Friend
It is that time of year: the yartzheit of a close friend. I will not go to shul to say Kaddish, but…
Sundays with Halivni
My Sundays will never be the same. My weekly inspiration and enlightenment are gone. Forever. It is hard to describe how much…
Do We Still Mourn the Churban?
This article was republished with permission from Jewish Action. It appears here in its original form. Probably no holiday season on the…
Suffering and Love
This essay was originally published in Hebrew in The Enigma of Suffering, ed. Dr. Baruch Kahana, Dr. Chayuta Deutsch, Ronny Redman (Tel…
Readers Respond: What Is Tisha B’Av Today?
“Commemorate,” as Cambridge Dictionary defines, is “to remember officially and give respect to a great person or event.” Tisha B’Av is precisely…
The Impossibility of Understanding Loss
You never think it could happen to you. We read headlines of tragedy, visit homes of grief, and see faces of loss.…
What Facebook’s COO Learned From Grief
It takes vulnerability to ask for help, to show that you depend on another. That was something new to Facebook COO Sheryl…