Father's Silent Tears: Empathy's True Power in Shiva Homes #shorts

can say just I'm talking about my father, but I've been to so many Shiva homes with my father. He's not a big talker, not a big schmoozer, and I find very often that he'll go into a Shiva house, not say a word to anybody, and I feel very awkward. I feel very awkward being the one going with him and just sitting there, and obviously I'm not going to speak if he's not speaking, and we leave. And so many people have told me subsequently that "Your father just sat there and cried with us, and that was worth more to us than any other visitors that we had." And I think that's an important role to play, just to be that person who really feels and empathizes with other people's situations, to understand that we really connect to it, that we really relate to it, that we appreciate the severity or the overwhelming nature of what it is for them. That's uh that's a very important piece of it.