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., ...
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 ...
这是God Shiva的坐骑(mount)。 The high point of Hindu temple festivals are thegrand processions, even today. The gods leave the sanctuary in the form of bronze images sitting on their wooden mounts and can now also be seen and worshipped by social fringe groups who are normally not allowed...
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 ...
And I want you to know as well. Forgive yourself for what you can’t help, and work with, over and around things too. And yes, that also means your body’s sudden, irrational “I don’t wanna.” Find ways to bribe it to do what you want. Or get someone else to do it. You...
True, but in the same amount of time, someone could probably write some kick-butt posts that could rank themselves. Also, that would be more fun. Matt, they should bite the bullet sooner or later, no? Doesn’t have to a choice of one or other, does it? However, I was sort of ho...
(According to Bob the Sphinx Woodward's recordings, Czar Donaldov knew how dangerous it was but chose to tell his fans not to worry. Well, Pollyanna was also a dizzy blonde, right? And Woodward sat shiva till his book was published in October. Silence constitutes complicity, dammit.) ...