Holding an 'Illegal' Shiva for My Mom
I used to believe in a Jewish version of Benjamin Franklin’s adage that the only certainties were death and taxes. I thought: “the one thing you can count on when a Jew dies is a speedy funeral followed by a restorative period of shiva.”
Then my mom died and everything I thought I knew about the Jewish rituals surrounding death and morning was shaken.
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