
Healing the Trauma of Loss (Rabbi Sacks on Chukat, Covenant & Conversation)
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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Introduction
The outer limit of grief in Jewish law is a year not more yet knowing all these things didn't help. I felt an existential black hole an emptiness at the core of being it deadened my sensations leaving me unable to sleep or focus as if life was happening at a great distance. The mood eventually passed but while it lasted I made some of the worst mistakes of my life. We're not always masters of our emotions not as comforting others prepare you for your own experience of loss.
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