Send Them Off as Jews Wednesday, January 06, 2021 Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 8 “You know,” I tell them, “what’s important now is just being here.”
Send Them Off as Jews Wednesday, December 30, 2020 Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 7 Facing the end of life — or even seeing that possibility in the distant future — can be a gift, for all sorts of reasons
Send Them Off as Jews Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 6 When there is “nothing left to be done” for someone, usually the greatest thing you can do is simply to be there with him
Send Them Off as Jews Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 5 Even when someone has only a short time to live, life — both in quantity and quality — is a halachic imperative
Send Them Off as Jews Wednesday, December 09, 2020 Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 4 Why are people so anxious to find out when someone will die?
Send Them Off as Jews Wednesday, December 02, 2020 Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 3 She wants him to be the same person he always was, but all he wants to do is daven and learn all day
Send Them Off as Jews Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 2 Everyone in the room laughed. It was a good line. Even though Meir himself was on his deathbed
Send Them Off as Jews Wednesday, November 18, 2020 Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 1 Almost everyone wants a rabbi to visit at the end of life. There is a sense that it is a sacred time