The Greatest Loss. The Way Forward. A Mother's Story.
\nMy first words as a mother were, "Don?t drop him.? It was as if I knew, even before I held my first child, that I wouldn?t be able to hold onto my children.
\nWe were the family who lost half our children; over a ten-year period, four of our eight children died, as infants, from a rare mitochondrial disorder. After the babies died, I was sure that nothing terrible could happen to us ever again.
\nNot to us.
\nThen, Yossi, our oldest child and only son, drowned six weeks before his wedding day.
\nAs a child, Yossi loved playing with words. Once, when he was getting ready for school, I said to him, "There are bagels on the counter if you?re hungry.?
\nHe said, "Even if I?m not.?
\n"What??
\n"The bagels are on the counter even if I?m not hungry.?
\nAfter Yossi died, I grappled with long-held beliefs: Hashem is close; everything that happens has a purpose; and our neshamos continue to exist after we leave This World. The com<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Greatest Loss. The Way Forward. A Mother's Story.
\nMy first words as a mother were, "Don?t drop him.? It was as if I knew, even before I held my first child, that I wouldn?t be able to hold onto my children.
\nWe were the family who lost half our children; over a ten-year period, four of our eight children died, as infants, from a rare mitochondrial disorder. After the babies died, I was sure that nothing terrible could happen to us ever again.
\nNot to us.
\nThen, Yossi, our oldest child and only son, drowned six weeks before his wedding day.
\nAs a child, Yossi loved playing with words. Once, when he was getting ready for school, I said to him, "There are bagels on the counter if you?re hungry.?
\nHe said, "Even if I?m not.?
\n"What??
\n"The bagels are on the counter even if I?m not hungry.?
\nAfter Yossi died, I grappled with long-held beliefs: Hashem is close; everything that happens has a purpose; and our neshamos continue to exist after we leave This World. The com
The Greatest Loss. The Way Forward. A Mother's Story.
\nMy first words as a mother were, "Don?t drop him.? It was as if I knew, even before I held my first child, that I wouldn?t be able to hold onto my children.
\nWe were the family who lost half our children; over a ten-year period, four of our eight children died, as infants, from a rare mitochondrial disorder. After the babies died, I was sure that nothing terrible could happen to us ever again.
\nNot to us.
\nThen, Yossi, our oldest child and only son, drowned six weeks before his wedding day.
\nAs a child, Yossi loved playing with words. Once, when he was getting ready for school, I said to him, "There are bagels on the counter if you?re hungry.?
\nHe said, "Even if I?m not.?
\n"What??
\n"The bagels are on the counter even if I?m not hungry.?
\nAfter Yossi died, I grappled with long-held beliefs: Hashem is close; everything that happens has a purpose; and our neshamos continue to exist after we leave This World. The com<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2243735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[474,460,471],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37345","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-biographies-reading-books-english","7":"product_cat-english","8":"product_cat-reading-books-english","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n