When you approach a home that's sitting shiva, you're invited to walk right in. As shiva is observed, the mourner’s home is open to the community and everyone is welcome. Shiva is a time to meet the mourners, to share memories and stories about the deceased. It's a time to honor...
a few hours before sunset, and can puton regular shoes close to candle-lightingtime.23 In another place, however, itstates (YD 400:5) that from the time ofMinchah ketanah all signs of mourningare stopped, but nonetheless "oneshould not put on shoes until shortlybefore Shabbat, i.e., ...
If someone you care about — or even someone you know only as a casual acquaintance — has endured the death of a loved one, please let them know you’re thinking of them. Whether they respond to your outreach or not, they will know they were offered your kindness, which those who mou...
Hello, again. You might have noticed the July to April gap in new posts onWhat to Say When Someone Dies. Years ago, I first started writing content for this grief support website within three days of my husband’s unexpected death, although I didn’t know at the time that’s what I ...
The gift of blood is a gift to someone’s life!!! Posted on January 10, 2023 by Vaishali Thakur This blood was going to be donated to the hospital where families could not afford to purchase it as the cost can run very high depending upon the supply. Helping a stranger, to whom we...
to men and women whose fantasy is a wall they can paint a color of their own choosing, to old people reduced to sitting on molded plastic chairs, their skin blue-white in the lights of a bus station, who pull pictures of houses out of their bags. Homes have stopped being homes. Now...
Anything that anyone is pursuing in the world – whether someone is going to the bar and getting drunk, or going to the temple, or meditating, or using drugs, or getting married, or making money, or going to Kailash – it is because you want toenhance your life. Drunkard ...
StD: We jam until the pieces fit together nicely. Anyone can bring his idea to the table, then everybody tries to adopt and adjust it so it becomes ‘shivaesque’ enough. Many pieces had not passed this filter, still sitting there and waiting to be finished some day. ...
When I am near too many people or a certain type of person too long, it feels like someone is scraping my nerves. When I say I am on my last nerve, it’s time for me to leave. Our world has a problem with introverts and doesn’t understand them. If I confess to being an ...
So today let us understand the meaning of Kshamapana and try to imbibe it in our lives. Lastly when we ask for Kshamapana from God we are trying to say that I am yours (Bhagwaan hu taaro). But this if reciprocated by Bhawaan as Yes, you are Mine! (Tu maaro!) will complete the...