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What This Jewish Tradition Gets Right About Loss #shiva #emotional
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Shiva House Rules. It’s about the community’s role in providing unwavering support, emphasizing that healing from trauma is a collective journey, not an individual burden. The None of Your Business Podcast The Nations #___ Podcast
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Shiva house rules, baby. Talk to me.
>> Shiva house rules. What do you do with a
traumatized person? It is not on you to
get better right now. It's on us, the
community, to hold you until you have
the strength to move on on your own.
Ancient Jewish tradition says is that
[music] we sit down, we take the person
who's hurting, who's traumatized, who's
in pain, and we don't tell them get up,
get a job, get your act together. We say
sit down on a low chair. We wait till
they talk first. We listen to what they
say. We hold them. We look at them with
the eyes of you are worthy just because
you are here. Most people who sits
through a shiva doesn't want to be
there. They don't want to be held. They
want to be sick and in pain and isolated
in their room. And that's how every
addict feels. But we say no, and we're
going to love you, and you're going to
borrow hope from us, and we're going to
give you the strength, and slowly,
slowly, we're going to get you to a
place