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The Blessing of a Broken Heart

By: Sherri Mandell
Narrated by: Rebecca Ehrenpreis
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Sherri Mandell, an American immigrant to Israel, offers this hauntingly beautiful memoir of a year of grief following the horrific murder of her 13-year-old son, Koby, found stoned to death along with a friend by Palestinian terrorists near his Tekoa home in 2001. This profoundly moving prose-poem laces together Jewish tradition, memory, love and faith as the writer-mother recounts her transformation from shock to grief and compassion. Singular in its honesty and depth of emotion, it will leave you forever changed. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

©2009 Sherri Mandell (P)2021 The Toby Press Grief & Loss Personal Development Relationships Middle East
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When her 13-year-old son Koby is murdered in a cave near Tekoa, Sherri Mandell begins to write. Not from the place of theory or consolation, but from the rupture itself. And she stays there.

Her words do not explain what happened so much as reflect what broke. A sock left behind. A favourite book. The familiar smell of his hair. These become sacred relics, portals into a theology born not of doctrine but of ache.

Each chapter opens another window—grief as a tent, as a mikveh, as a landscape changed by fire. There is no closure. Only deepening.

A Theology of Holding On

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