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Sitting Shiva - when you've lost your 16 year old daughter.....Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sun, 12/25/2011 - 16:39.
I was staying with friends when I heard about this tragedy, and I immediately got a splitting migrane. I couldn't imagine the intensity of grief the parents and family were enduring. At at time like this you would want to crawl into a hole and drown in your depression... So the Jewish culture over centuries has developed an antidote - about as good as it can be - sitting Shiva. The mourners are visted by their friends and neighbors - hundreds and hundreds of them. Visitors don't need to knock...you just walk right in. Bring a plate of food to share. Talk about the living and talk about the dying, recollect your memories. Difficult to do - take GRIEF head on and overwhelm it!
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