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Worn Torn
Nov 6, 2015 By Amichai Lau-Lavie | Commentary | Hayyei Sarah
“Abraham mourned and wept for Sarah.” (Gen. 23)
Did he rip his clothes? And what did Isaac do when hearing that his mother died?
I think of him this year as the verse in “the Life of Sarah” leaps again beyond the Speaking Scroll, an annual review of loss and mourning. Just about a year ago my father died. In the moments following the news, alone in a hotel, far away from anyone and anywhere, my first instinct was to tear my shirt, observing “keri’a.”
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