When my husband Josh z”l passed away on May 18, 2023, I felt as though much of my own identity was lost with him. There are countless books on aveilut, on personal grief, and on family grief... Yet I have not found words that speak to the widow’s loss, to my loss, of religious identity.

עשרה מי יודע?  עשרה אני יודע - עשרה דבריא Who knows ten? I know ten: 10 commandments What is ten?  For the past few weeks (perhaps months) I have been frantically searching for the path that I am supposed to travel, guidebook I am supposed to follow, or plan I am supposed to implement to commemorate ten years since our tiny, beautiful premature daughter, Emuna Bracha Esther, was born and then, five heart-wrenching days later, passed away.  On the morning of her birthday, in t

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