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In accordance with Jewish Iaw.
nana was buried the next day.
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My father. being next of kin...
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went through a series of rituaIs
that for the 1st time in my Iife...
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feIt Iike they meant something.
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He ripped his cIothing and stopped
shaving for a month.
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We covered the mirrors in our
house.
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And there was to be no music
for awhiIe.
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My father had to sit on a Iow
chair...
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for seven days.
A period caIIed 'sitting shiva'.
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In that time. he was not to Ieave
the house.
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Mourning is often seen as a time
of quiet contempIation.
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Not if you're Jewish.
:57:06
Friends and famiIy came every night
that week for prayers...
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to bring home-made food so that
no-one in the famiIy had to cook.
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As it turned out. we didn't have
to cook for a month.
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Sadie was a woman who didn't
miss a thing.
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ln fact. she'd be upset she
couldn't be here today.
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She always loved a good shiva.
But. as the midrash says...
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even an angel cannot be
in two places at once.
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She once told me. she so wished...
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that she could see her family
that never made it out of Poland.
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Well. Sadie...
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now you can.
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-l hate this.
-Yeah. it's very hard.